Discussion
heightened impulsive, antisocial, high-functioning
In a pre-treatment sample of people convicted for sexual offences in the UK, we used psychological test measures, indexing three of the four SARN domains of dynamic risk,The second profile was termed impulsive and accounted for approximately 8.4% of the test sample. These individuals were characterised by heightened impulsive carelessness, had relatively low IQ and a relatively high number of overall convictions. People allocated to this profile appear to conform to a more ‘generalist’ antisocial pattern of offendingApproximately 12.4% of the test sample were allocated to a distorted thinker profile and were characterised by relatively high scores for rape myth acceptance and distorted thinking about children and sex. Distorted thinkers tended to be older, had fewer overall convictions, with a relatively high frequency of index offences that were child specific, female specific or related to IIOC, consistent with a preference for younger victims despite elevated scores for rape myth acceptance.The final two profiles were termed rape preoccupied and child fantasist and accounted for 8.1 and 19.8% of the test sample respectively. People with these profiles showed more specific areas of risk and need related to deviant sexual preferences and preoccupations with sex. The rape preoccupied group accounted for the smallest proportion of the test sample and included individuals who showed particularly elevated scores for rape fantasies and non-child-specific obsessive thinking about sex. People allocated to a rape preoccupied profile had a relatively high number of previous sexual offences, with a relatively high frequency of very high-risk individuals but fewer medium-risk, and relatively few people with child-specific and female-specific index offences. People in this profile appear to show a preference for adult victims but offended less preferentially against female victims.Child fantasists showed a specific elevation for child and sex fantasies, and tended to be older and to have higher IQs relative to the LPI profile. This profile included a disproportionately high frequency of child-specific and IIOC index offences and a much less extensive overall criminal history. People with this profile may conform to a more high-functioning, preferentially paedophilic pattern of offending,