Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ573208
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1998
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How Incest Offenders Overcome Internal Inhibitions through the Use of Cognitions and Cognitive Distortions.
Hartley, Carolyn Copps
Journal of Interpersonal Violence, v13 n1 p25-39 Feb 1998
Explores cognitions incest offenders use to overcome their initial inhibitions against offending and to maintain their offending behavior once begun. Involves in-person interviews with caucasian male incest offenders in treatment. Discusses cognitions identified within the context of new theory on the role of cognitions in sexual offending. (MKA)
Descriptors: Adults, Child Abuse, Cognitive Processes, Criminals, Emotional Disturbances, Incest, Inhibition, Sexual Abuse
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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