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Assessing components of empathy in sex-offenders with intellectual disabilities
- Authors:
- RALFS Sonya, BEAIL Nigel
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 25(1), January 2012, pp.50-59.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Aiming to examine empathy in sex offenders with intellectual disabilities because of a lack of previous research, this study focused on the components outlined in the 4 stage process model of empathy (emotion recognition, perspective taking, emotion replication, and response decision). 21 male sex offenders with intellectual and developmental disability and 21 male non-offenders with intellectual disabilities completed the Test of Emotional Perception, and the responses were compared. The study found that there were no significant differences between the 2 groups across the components of empathy, but that sex offenders who had received treatment performed better on tasks of emotion recognition, emotion replication and response decision than the non-offenders. The authors conclude that further research is needed to understand empathy in sex offenders with intellectual disabilities.