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<div itemscope itemtype="/BlogPosting"><p>OTTAWA — Researchers at the Royal Ottawa are helping to sketch out a hormonal profile of sex abusers who re-offend.</p><p>Their study, published recently in the <em>Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry &amp; the Law</em>, links hormone levels with criminal recidivism.</p><p>The study found levels of luteinizing hormone (LH) and follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) were related to incidence of re-offending. While it stops short of proving a causal effect — causes of sexual behaviour and aggression are complex, to say the least — it has important benefits, in terms of community safety,karen millen sale, over the long term,christian louboutin shoes.</p><p>The study has been decades in the making.</p><p>Dr. John Bradford,Manitoba teachers want province to stop parents, clinical director of the forensic treatment unit of the Royal Ottawa Health Care Group,karen millen outlet, started a sexual behaviour clinic 33 years ago. By now, data have been recorded from almost 5,000 patients treated.</p><p>The new research looks at 771 men, aged 18 to 78,christian louboutin heels, who visited the clinic in 1982-96,karen millen outlet. All had been convicted of sexual offences. Two thirds were referred by a judge or a lawyer. Another 18% were sent by their doctor and 5% were self-referred.</p><p>Their offences also varied: 36% were pedophiles who abused relatives; 24% abused children they were not related to; 22% were exhibitionists; 9% had raped adult women; and 8% were offenders against “heterogeneous victim types.”</p><p>Samples to measure the hormone levels were collected during the clinic appointments.</p><p>Using the Canadian Police Information Centre, the researchers kept track of the men to see who re-offended.</p><p>The follow-up period ranged from one to 20 years, with a mean of 11 years. The study found the percentage of those re-offending sexually and violently was 18% and 28% respectively (for purposes of the study, criminal charges were enough to count as re-offending, whether there was a conviction or not).</p><p>The researchers found hormone levels for LH and FSH were related to that recidivism and suggested they were better predictors of it than testosterone, which was a surprising result.</p><p>One hope is the findings could eventually point toward the discovery of genes that play a role in criminal sexual behaviour,karen millen dresses.</p><p>At the same time,there is nothing to, Dr,karen millen dresses. Bradford cautions the study is only one step in on a very long road toward understanding the relationship between the hormones and always-complicated human behaviour. The brain, he says,christian louboutin sale, is incredibly hard to understand.</p><p>“There are 38 billion brain cells, for example, and they are all interconnected in many ways. It’s more than the greatest supercomputer you’d ever imagine,karen millen dresses,no theme The delive,” he said.</p><p>An independent commentary on the study, which was also published by the journal, praised it as a “welcome relief for those of us who value solid research in a difficult area so often dominated by salespeople,karen millen outlet, moralizers and zealots.”</p><p>For Dr. Bradford, the work was a chance to let the information he started compiling so long ago provide the data crucial for such studies.</p><p>“A greater understanding of the hormonal causes of sexual offending and recidivism is very important to protect the public,” he said. “And particularly the vulnerable in the public, the women and children.”</p><p><em>The Ottawa Citizen</em></p></div>