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Frontal lobes and older sex offenders — a preliminary investigation
Author(s)	Seena Fazel, Ian O'Donnell, Tony Hope
Journal title	International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, vol 22, no 1, January 2007
Pages	pp 87-89
Source	http://www.interscience.wiley.com
Keywords	Older men ; Offenders ; Prisoners ; Personality disorders ; Behaviour disorders ; Evaluation.
Annotation	It has been hypothesised that older men sustain age-related brain changes that may precipitate offending behaviour, particularly sexual offences. The authors tested the hypothesis that frontal lobe changes are associated with sexual offending in older men. Frontal lobe tests were administered to 50 older men incarcerated for sex crimes and to 50 older controls in prison for other crimes; all were aged 60+ and in 15 prisons in England and Wales. No evidence was found to support this hypothesis, but nor does that disprove the hypothesis either. Rather, a more representative sample of older sex offenders is required and a control group with fewer violent (non-sexual) offenders, who may have equally been associated with frontal lobe dysfunction. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-070131220 A
Classmark	BC: TGC: TGF: EK: EP: 4C
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