ISSN: 0022-1198
CODEN: JFSCA
Page Count: 5

Neuropsychological Performance of Sexual Assaulters and Pedophiles
Golden, CJ
Associate professor, University of Nebraska Medical Center, NB

Cole, JK
Professor, University of Nebraska-Lincoln,

Liggett, KR
Program administrator, Diagnostic and Evaluation Center, Department of Correctional Services, NB

Scott, ML
staff psychologist, Providence Hospital, WA

McKay, SE
Associate professor, University of Kentucky, KY

(Received 9 January 1984; accepted 26 March 1984)

Abstract

Persons who had been arrested for sexual assault were administered the Luria-Nebraska Neuropsychological Battery and the results compared to a group of normal controls. The sexual assaulters performed significantly worse on 7 of the 14 scales of the battery. The data were then broken down into three groups: (1) those who had forcibly assaulted postpubescent victims, (2) those subjects who had sexually molested a prepubescent child, and (3) normal controls. A discriminant analysis correctly classified 68% of the subjects on the basis of their neuropsychological performance alone.

Keywords:
psychiatry, criminalistics, criminal sex offenses, neuropsychology

Paper ID: JFS11778J
DOI: 10.1520/JFS11778J
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