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Understanding sex: the right to legal capacity to consent to sex
- Author:
- ARSTEIN-KERSLAKE Anna
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 30(10), 2015, pp.1459-1473.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This article addresses the right to legal capacity to consent to sex of people with intellectual disabilities. Article 12 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities guarantees the right to legal capacity on an equal basis in all areas of life. This article discusses sex as an area of life in which people with intellectual disabilities are frequently not being granted legal capacity on an equal basis. The article examines current capacity to consent to sex law in Ireland, England and Wales in light of Article 12. It proposes an ‘agreement model’ as a potential alternative that would be Article 12 compliant. (Publisher abstract)
Defining 'sexualized challenging behavior' in adults with intellectual disabilities
- Authors:
- LOCKHART Karen, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Policy and Practice in Intellectual Disabilities, 6(4), December 2009, pp.293-301.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Given their connotations of criminal intent or insight, the terms "sexual offending" and "abuse" are problematic in their applicability to people with learning disabilities. The authors propose adopting the term "sexualised challenging behaviour" and define it by using empirical methods. Using a qualitative methodology, they examined a six-month sample of service-based documentation reporting problem sexual behaviours. They also conducted semi-structured interviews with a staff-based sample and explored their views in relation to sexual behaviour. Common themes emerged across both documentation and staff interviews regarding the nature and characteristics of such behaviours. Their proposed definition encompasses a continuum of self- and other-directed behaviours related to touch, exposure, and communication, which they view as distinct from sexual offending. The findings further suggest that sexualised challenging behaviours have distinct characteristics that differentiate them from nonsexualised challenging behaviours. The authors conclude that sexualised challenging behaviours can be defined as a distinct class of behaviours that require further study among a broader cohort of adults with learning disabilities.
Working with young people who sexually abuse: new pieces of the jigsaw puzzle
- Author:
- CALDER Martin C.
- Publisher:
- Russell House
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 319p.,tables,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Lyme Regis
Collection of papers aiming to consolidate and extent the current knowledge and practice base in relation to young people who sexually abuse. Papers include: filling the theoretical reservoir of causal explanations; detection, diagnosis and treatment of paraphilic personality disorder; clinical assessment instruments that measure strengths and risks in children and families; recovery assessments with young people who sexually abuse; attachment and intimacy in young people who sexually abuse; a framework for a multiagency approach to working with young abusers; a conceptual framework for managing young people who sexually abuse; a psychoanalytical view of the relationship between fathers and their sons; a description of a community based project to work with young people who sexually abuse; developing groupwork with young people who sexually abuse; young abusers with learning difficulties; young people with Asperger's syndrome; the significance of trauma in problematic behaviour; dilemmas and potential work with sexually abusive young people in residential settings; and characteristics and treatment of adolescent sex offenders in the republic of Ireland.