The validity of phallometric assessment with rapists : Comments on Looman & Marshall
| dc.contributor.author | Lalumière, Martin L. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Rice, M. E. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2007-10-01T15:04:43Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2007-10-01T15:04:43Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2007 | |
| dc.description | The original publication is available at www.springerlink.com | en |
| dc.description.abstract | In a recent article Looman and Marshall (2005) questioned the validity of phallometric assessment of rapists based on the results of a study of incarcerated rapists and child molesters. In this commentary we offer (1) a critique of the methods used and conclusions reached by Looman and Marshall and (2) a discussion of important methodological issues relevant to phallometry. We conclude that the correct inference from Looman and Marshall’s study is that rapists, as a group, show a pattern of sexual arousal to audiotaped scenarios of coercive and non-coercive sex that significantly differs from the pattern of groups of non-sex offenders, in agreement with the general literature on this question. | en |
| dc.description.peer-review | Yes | en |
| dc.identifier.citation | Lalumière, M. L., & Rice, M. E. (2007) The validity of phallometric assessment with rapists : Comments on Looman & Marshall. Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment, 19, 61-68. | en |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1079-0632 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1573-286X | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10133/501 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.publisher | Springer | en |
| dc.publisher.department | Psychology | en |
| dc.publisher.faculty | Arts and Science | en |
| dc.publisher.institution | University of Lethbridge | en |
| dc.publisher.institution | McMaster University | en |
| dc.subject | Sexual excitement | en |
| dc.subject | Rapists | en |
| dc.title | The validity of phallometric assessment with rapists : Comments on Looman & Marshall | en |
| dc.type | Article | en |