NCJ Number
95664
Journal
Journal of Forensic Sciences Volume: 29 Issue: 4 Dated: (October 1984) Pages: 1114-1118
Date Published
1984
Length
5 pages
Annotation
Persons who had been arrested for sexual assault were administered the Luria-Nebraska Neuropsychological Battery and the results compared to a group of normal controls.
Abstract
The sexual assaulters performed significantly worse on 7 of the 14 scales of the battery. The data were then broken down into three groups: (1) those who had forcibly assaulted postpubescent victims, (2) those subjects who had sexually molested a prepubescent child, and (3) normal controls. A discriminant analysis correctly classified 68% of the subjects on the basis of their neuropsychological performance alone. (Author abstract)