ABSTRACT

Grooming is a process whereby an individual who plans to commit a sexual crime uses deception with the victim as well as the people in the environment (such as the victim’s family members, the offender’s family, etc.) so that the crime goes undetected. Despite the overwhelming presence of grooming in sexual crimes, there is a dearth of research on sex offenders’ perceptions of their own grooming behaviors. This paper describes the psychometrics and lessons learned in the pilot study of testing and revising a new instrument for measuring sex offenders’ perceptions of their grooming behaviors (Sex Offenders Grooming Assessment; SOGA), with a sample (n = 50) of convicted male sex offenders in community based specialized therapy. Analyses suggest that using behaviorally-specific questions yielded more reliable results than general categorical grooming questions. Understanding how sex offenders perceive and report their grooming behavior provides valuable insight critical to treatment and assessment.

摘要

修饰是计划实施性犯罪的个人对受害者以及环境中的人（例如受害者的家人、犯罪者的家人等）使用欺骗手段以使犯罪不被发现的过程。尽管性犯罪中大量存在美容，但缺乏关于性犯罪者对其自身美容行为的看法的研究。本文描述了在测试和修订用于衡量性犯罪者对其美容行为的看法的新工具（性犯罪者美容评估；SOGA）的试点研究中的心理测量学和经验教训, 以社区为基础的专门治疗中被定罪的男性性犯罪者的样本 (n = 50)。分析表明，使用特定于行为的问题比一般的分类修饰问题产生更可靠的结果。了解性犯罪者如何看待和报告他们的美容行为提供了对治疗和评估至关重要的宝贵见解。