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Resources are written for different audiences and purposes. Each item will identify its intended readers, author, publication date and sources, and will distinguish established evidence from interpretation or professional opinion.

This is an educational resource. It does not provide individual clinical, legal, safeguarding or emergency advice.

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For the public

Accessible information for people seeking to understand sexual offending, harmful sexual behaviour, investigation, treatment and routes to appropriate support.

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For clinical professionals

Evidence-informed material for therapists, psychologists and allied professionals working with complex sexual behaviour, risk, harm and recovery.

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For legal professionals

Clear information about psychosexual formulation, clinical expertise, expert evidence and services relevant to criminal and related legal cases.

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Essential introductions

What Is Forensic Sexology?

A clear introduction to the field, its boundaries and the relationship between clinical knowledge, safeguarding, law, offending, rehabilitation and research.

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Understanding the key themes

Explore the interconnected subjects that shape ethical research, clinical work, legal understanding and responsible public education.

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When specialist input may help

Learn where a forensic psychosexual perspective may assist legal teams, clients and other professionals, and where its limits must be clear.

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When Someone Receives ‘the Knock’

A calm guide to the immediate legal, safeguarding and emotional priorities after a police visit connected with an online sexual-offence investigation.

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Assessment, Formulation and Risk

A clear guide to the differences between clinical assessment, individual formulation and forensic risk assessment, including their limits.

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Therapeutic Accountability and Sustainable Change

What accountability means after sexual offending—and how responsibility, formulation, practical skills, safeguards and supportive conditions contribute to lasting change.

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Digital Sexual Harm, Online Offending and Emerging Technology

How technology changes opportunity, reach and persistence, with guidance on consent, AI-generated abuse, clinical formulation, safeguarding and support.

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Prevention Before Criminal-Justice Involvement

Why early help, clear boundaries and proportionate safeguarding matter before concerns escalate or an offence occurs.

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Prevention and early intervention Assessment, formulation and risk management Intervention, rehabilitation and desistance Digital and technology-facilitated sexual harm Domestic abuse, coercive control and relationship violence Ethics, law, governance and public protection

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Planned articles and evidence summaries

The first publication programme will build practical depth around questions frequently raised by the public, clinicians and legal professionals.

Victims, partners, families and whole-system safeguarding
Disability, neurodiversity and culturally responsive practice
Practitioner wellbeing, supervision and vicarious trauma

Evidence-informed policy, law and public protection
Research literacy and treatment outcome evaluation

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How resources are prepared

Material will distinguish sexual interest, behaviour, distress, disorder, offending and risk; acknowledge uncertainty and cultural limits; avoid unnecessary graphic or operational detail; and consider victim, survivor, partner, child and family impacts responsibly.

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