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Automatism’s possible implications for sex offenses and violent crimes include questions about awareness and voluntary action. The article outlines distinctions among automatism and unconsciousness, discusses proposed causes and legal exclusions, and summarizes research and commentary on the role of expert witnesses.
This resource reviews sexuality and socially inappropriate sexual behavior in people with autism spectrum disorder, alongside research on sexual offending and justice-system involvement. The cited studies discuss social-communication challenges, sexual education, and reported group findings; a systematic review notes that the published evidence on offending was limited to small numbers of case reports and prevalence studies.
This resource reviews laboratory research on alcohol’s acute effects on memory in healthy adults, including working, episodic, and semantic memory. The cited experiments report that effects differ by task and timing: alcohol can impair encoding and some forms of recall while leaving implicit memory or priming relatively unaffected, and findings vary across the blood-alcohol curve.
This resource brings together research on adolescents’ MySpace profiles under the topic of online age deception. The cited studies examine disclosure of identifying details and changes in privacy practices over time, rather than directly measuring how often youths misrepresent their ages.
The Abel Assessment combines a questionnaire and a viewing-time measure developed to assess sexual interests in adults and juveniles. The source describes the Abel Assessment’s components and versions, then reviews published critiques of its psychometric evidence, limitations in probability estimates, and cautions raised about interpreting results in forensic settings.
The ERASOR-2 is a structured professional judgment tool for estimating the short-term risk of sexual reoffense among youth ages 12–18. The source summarizes the ERASOR’s research basis and later studies of its reliability, predictive validity, and protective factors, including findings from prospective follow-up and a large study comparing multiple juvenile risk instruments.
This resource describes a psychologist’s services for children, adolescents, and families, including diagnostic assessment, psychotherapy, family therapy, behavioral-management training, and consultation about school special education. It also notes services for adults adjusting to chronic medical conditions or disabilities, and availability in English and Spanish.
