I am very excited to be introducing you to my special issue for Sexual Abuse, focusing on “International Developmental/Life-Course Perspectives and Research on Sexual Offending and Offenders.” As readers of this journal are well aware, there has been a considerable amount of literature that has documented that the sexual recidivism rates of persons with sexual offense histories are very low, persons with sexual offense histories do not tend to specialize in a specific type of sex offense or sex offenses in general, and that the continuity of sexual offending behavior from adolescence into adulthood is also rare (Piquero et al., 2012; Reingle, 2012; Zimring et al., 2007). Furthermore, these empirical “facts” are identifiable in research in countries all over the world (Cortoni et al., 2010; Hanson, 2002; Nisbet et al., 2004; Piquero et al., 2012; Zimring et al., 2007). Having said this, what has been slower to develop in this area of research is an overarching theoretical scaffolding or framework to contextualize these research findings and to inform further empirical inquiry. This gap in the literature was one of the driving features behind the development of an international “Sex Offenders in and out of Crime” symposium that was hosted in Brussels, Belgium, in March 2018. This symposium was widely attended by academics, practitioners, and members of the community. As this symposium broadly focused on the criminal careers of persons with sexual offense histories, longitudinal analyses, risk/protective factors, continuity, onset, desistance, and so on, it soon led to rich discussions and conversations and an interest and need in brainstorming methods for disseminating these kind of developmentally/life-course-informed studies. These conversations and inquiries ultimately led to the development of the call-for-papers for this special issue.

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特刊：国际发展/生活课程的观点和性犯罪和罪犯研究

很高兴向您介绍我的《性虐待》特刊，重点是“国际发展/生活课程的观点以及性犯罪和罪犯的研究”。正如该杂志的读者所了解的那样，已有大量文献证明性犯罪史者的性累犯率非常低，性犯罪史者往往不擅长于特定类型的性犯罪或一般性犯罪，而且从青春期到成年期的性犯罪行为的连续性也很少见（Piquero等，2012； Reingle，2012； Zimring等，2007）。此外，这些经验性的“事实”在世界各国的研究中都是可以确定的（Cortoni等，2010； Hanson，2002； Nisbet等，2004； Piquero等，2012； N。Zimring等，2007）。话虽如此，在这一研究领域中发展较慢的是一个总体的理论框架或框架，这些框架或框架将这些研究结果背景化并为进一步的实证研究提供信息。文献中的空白是于2018年3月在比利时布鲁塞尔举办的国际“犯罪中的性犯罪者”研讨会背后的驱动特征之一。学者，实践者和社区成员。由于本次研讨会广泛地关注性犯罪史，纵向分析，风险/保护因素，连续性，发作，中止等方面的人们的犯罪职业，很快就引起了广泛的讨论和对话，并引起了人们对集思广益的方法的兴趣和需求，以传播这类以发展/生活过程为基础的研究。这些对话和询问最终导致了本期特刊的征文工作。