Congrats to Dr Tochukwu (Tochs) Onwuegbusi and Prof Todd Hogue who, along with an ex-student and an ex-Lincoln colleague, have had a paper on the validity of the Attitudes In the direction of Intercourse Offenders Scale (ATS) revealed within the Scandinavian Journal of Psychology.
Summary
Damaging attitudes towards offenders might hinder the rehabilitation course of. The current examine examines the connection between attitudes towards intercourse offenders and said acceptance of offenders and non-offenders into varied facets of every day life. Sixty feminine members of the general public (18–50 years previous, UK residents, recruited by phrase of mouth and by way of social media) accomplished an attitudes in direction of intercourse offenders (ATS) scale and indicated for every of eight vignettes describing ex-offenders and non-offenders whether or not they would settle for them in varied conditions (housing, employment, day-to-day actions). Outcomes point out that on this group of feminine contributors, harsher attitudes towards intercourse offenders are related to decrease acceptance of intercourse offenders (round 50% much less acceptance) and different offenders (round 25% much less acceptance), however not non-offenders, suggesting a decent coupling between attitudes and acceptance. The noticed coupling between attitudes towards intercourse offenders and acceptance of offenders means that it will likely be troublesome to vary one with out altering the opposite.
Rawson, L., Hermens, F., Onwuegbusi, T., & Hogue, T. (2024). The assemble validity of Attitudes in direction of Intercourse Offenders (ATS) scale: ATS is extra strongly linked to the acceptance of intercourse offenders than different offenders or non-offenders. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/sjop.13031Â
