title: Baby with the bath water: response to Fanniff and Letourneau.
abstract: Fanniff and Letourneau concluded that neither their review of the published literature nor their own investigation supported the use of Scale 1 of the Juvenile Sex Offender Assessment Protocol-II (J-SOAP-II). I argue that empirical findings on Scale 1 are mixed and that there is more support in the literature than one might conclude from reading Fanniff and Letourneau. Their negative conclusions about Scale 1 are based on a flawed literature review as well as problematic methods in their own investigation.
authors.affiliation: University of Maine, Orono, ME, USA jeff.hecker@umit.maine.edu.
authors.forename: Jeffrey E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Hecker
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007604:Juvenile Delinquency / Q000523:psychology*; D008297:Male; D011581:Psychological Tests / Q000592:standards*; D018570:Risk Assessment / Q000592:standards*; D012742:Sex Offenses / Q000523:psychology*
keywords: adolescent sexual abusers; juvenile sex offender; juvenile sex offender recidivism; psychometric properties; risk assessment