Re: CASA report

["James E. Hord. Jr., Ph.D." <DrHord@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>A couple of years ago there was a GAO report examining the sexual
>cycle of violence, which examined Widom's data, data from Linda Williams,
>and some other data, and their conclusion as well was that there is
>no support for the idea of a sexual cycle of violence.

>Evan R. Harrington, Ph.D.
>
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Really glad to read this Evan.  Several years ago at a Sexual Abuse
conference I heard a psychologist from Texas, report on an unpublished
study in which they interviewed prisoners in the Texas system who were in
jail for sexually abusing children.  Over 90% reported being sexually
abused in their own childhood.  Later, they returned to the same population
of prisoners and re-tested, but now said that following the collection of
data, each prisoner would be given a lie detector test and those who lied
would have time added to their sentence.  This time only a very small
sample, less than 15% as I recall, claimed to have experienced sexual abuse
in their childhood.

What a neat study.  I have be unable to locate the source of that
information although I have tried, but the above is how I remember it being
presented.

Jim Hord, Ph.D.
http://jim.hord.com