Sex offenders have great incentive to deny and/or minimize their offense, and both researchers and treatment providers regularly encounter their socially desirable response patterns. Despite the importance of distinguishing those who are lying about their innocence from those who are truly not culpable, law enforcement agencies and clinicians have few resources, other than the polygraph, to discern false denial from truthful, actual denial using scientifically supported methods. The Analysis of Patterns of Denial (APOD), a checklist of denial techniques, was developed to assist in making this distinction. It was developed by comparing a sample of guilty persons who denied their offense conduct with persons who were falsely accused (i.e., accused and investigated but later convincingly cleared by polygraph, a DNA non-match, and/or confession by another person). Items that satisfactorily discriminated between the two groups were retained in the final checklist. The APOD is intended to help those who work with sex offenders identify denial response patterns to more accurately determine if an alleged sex offender is being truthful or deceptive.

性犯罪者有很大的动机否认和/或尽量减少他们的罪行，研究人员和治疗提供者都经常遇到他们社会期望的反应模式。尽管区分那些谎称自己无罪的人和那些真正没有罪的人很重要，但执法机构和临床医生除了测谎仪外，几乎没有其他资源来使用科学支持的方法来区分虚假否认和真实、实际的否认。拒绝模式分析 (APOD) 是一个拒绝技术清单，旨在帮助做出这种区分。它是通过将否认其犯罪行为的有罪者样本与被诬告的人进行比较而开发的（即，被指控和调查但后来通过测谎仪令人信服地清除，DNA不匹配，和/或其他人的供词）。在最终检查表中保留了令人满意地区分两组的项目。APOD 旨在帮助那些与性犯罪者打交道的人识别否认反应模式，以更准确地确定被指控的性犯罪者是真实的还是欺骗性的。