Cognitive Problem-Solving Skills in Antisocial Rapists

• NCJ Number: 114837
• Journal: Criminal Justice and Behavior Volume: 15 Issue: 4 Dated: (December 1988) Pages: 501-514
• Author(s): P E Grier
• Date Published: 1988
• Length: 14 pages
• Publication Format: Article
• Publication Type: Research (Applied/Empirical)
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America
• Note: Based on a dissertation completed in 1986 at St. Louis University.

Annotation

Claims have been made that sexual offenders are deficient in interpersonal problem-solving skills. This study examined whether incarcerated sexual offenders (N=30) differed in means-ends thinking when compared to a nonoffender control group (N=30).

Abstract

Overall, there were no differences between the two groups on problem-solving skills as measured by the Means-Ends Problem-Solving procedure. On one dependent variable, involving a task that asked the individual to conceptualize a means of reconciliation in a heterosexual relationship, sexual offenders generated fewer means for solving problems than nonoffender controls. (Author abstract)