Despite speculation regarding the role of collateral consequences of sexual offender policies in psychosocial and criminogenic outcomes, there has been no empirical analysis in the extant literature examining these links. Lack of conceptual underpinnings and no psychometrically valid measure of collateral consequences has limited study in this area. A systematic literature review was conducted to assess the state of measurement in terms of conceptual and operational definitions, populations sampled, domains assessed, items used, and scale properties reported. Nineteen studies met inclusion criteria. Themes emerged regarding commonly assessed collateral consequences, the misconnect between legal and psychological conceptualizations of collateral consequences, the division between external (i.e., social) and internal (i.e., affective) collateral consequences, as well as a trend toward emphasizing the psychological damages (in addition to discrete experiences of loss) associated with a sexual offense. Findings are discussed, and a unifying definition of collateral consequences is proposed to guide future scale development.

尽管推测性犯罪者政策的附带后果在心理社会和犯罪结果中的作用，但在现有文献中没有对这些联系进行实证分析。缺乏概念基础和没有对附带后果的心理测量学上有效的测量限制了该领域的研究。进行了系统的文献回顾，以根据概念和操作定义、抽样人口、评估的领域、使用的项目和报告的规模属性来评估测量状态。十九项研究符合纳入标准。出现的主题包括通常评估的附带后果、附带后果的法律和心理概念之间的错误联系、外部（即社会）和内部（即，情感）附带后果，以及强调与性犯罪相关的心理损害（除了离散的损失经历）的趋势。讨论了调查结果，并提出了对附带后果的统一定义，以指导未来的规模发展。