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Operant Control of PedophiliaReducing Approaches to ChildrenCamarillo State Hospital-Neuropsychiatric Institute (UCLA)
Western Michigan University The present study evaluated the effectiveness of specific instructions and confinement (a modified timeout procedure) for reducing approaches to children by a mildly retarded pedophile. The subject, an individual accused of several sexual offenses, was covertly observed during unstructured walks through the neighbor-hood surrounding his group home residence. Baseline data indicated that the subject approached young females, young males, and "adults" at moderate, highly variable rates. In a multiple-baseline, across responses design, specific instructions and contingent confinement were applied first to approaches toward young females and then to approaches toward young males, with the adult category serving as a control baseline. Instructions consisted of describing approach responses which would result in confinement. Confinement entailed an observer immediately returning the subject to his residence where he was restricted for the remainder of the evening, and cancelling the subject's weekend visiting privileges. Data collected over a one-year period show that the intervention substantially reduced approaches to young females and males without adversely affecting the number of approaches to adults.
Behavior Modification, Vol. 6, No. 1,
73-84 (1982) This article has been cited by other articles:
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