COURSE CONTENT: 1-day training
EXPLORING THE SEXUAL OFFENDER & PHYSICAL ABUSER:
Understanding the Offender’s Personality, Behavior, & Typology
Addressing Forensic Considerations for Law Enforcement, Probation, Judges, & Psychologists
2008
8:00 to 5:00 (Registration from 8-8:15)

Characteristics of the Physical Abuser & Sexual
Offender
  • Review facts about abuse and sexual offenses
  • Examine the psychological and behavioral
    characteristics of abusers and sexual offenders
  • Examine the similarities that exist
  • Discuss personality disorders common among
    abusers & sex offenders
  • Examine how the victim is impacted by the abuser’
    s/sex offender’s pathologies

Exploring the Physical Abuser & Sexual Offender
Typologies
  • Identify male & female abuser typologies
  • Identify male sex offender typologies, including a
    law enforcement profiling typology
  • Identify female sex offender typologies
  • Identify characteristics of the juvenile sex offender
  • Examine how abusers & sex offenders think and
    behave

Understanding the Psychopathic Personality
  • Examining the characteristics of the psychopathic
    offender
  • Discuss how to deal with psychopathic offenders

Exploring the Relationship between Pornography
& the Sexual Offender & Physical Abuser
  • Examine the role of pornography in abuse and
    sex offenses
  • Examine examples of pornographic pictures that
    help to demonstrate the powerful impact
    pornography has on reinforcing abuse and
    sexual offense patterns of thinking and behavior.
  • Examine how the abuser’s/sex offender’s use of
    pornography impacts the victim