TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2007//
TI  - The Validity of Phallometric Assessment With Rapists: Comments on Looman and Marshall (2005)
JO  - Sexual abuse: a journal of research and treatment
A1  - Lalumière, Martin L.
A1  - Rice, Marnie E.
SP  - 61
EP  - 68
VL  - 19
IS  - 1
N2  - In a recent article Looman and Marshall (2005) questioned the validity of phallometric assessment of rapists based on the results of a study of incarcerated rapists and child molesters. In this commentary we offer (1) a critique of the methods used and conclusions reached by Looman and Marshall and (2) a discussion of important methodological issues relevant to phallometry. We conclude that the correct inference from Looman and Marshall's study is that rapists, as a group, show a pattern of sexual arousal to audiotaped scenarios of coercive and non-coercive sex that significantly differs from the pattern of groups of non-sex offenders, in agreement with the general literature on this question.<p /> 
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SN  - 1079-0632
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/107906320701900106
ID  - ref1
ER  -