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Professionals working with sexual offenders against children frequently note unusual cognitions occurring in this group which are often believed to be related with sexual recidivism. To describe it, Later, Ciardha and Ward (2013) offered a working definition: "cognitive distortions in sex offenders are specific or general beliefs/attitudes that violate commonly accepted norms of rationality, and which have been shown to be associated with the onset and maintenance of sexual offending". To avoid ambiguities related to this term, some authors prefer to define the phenomenon as "distorted schemas" (Beech, Bartels, Dixon, 2014) or "attitudes supportive of sexual offending" While the meaning of these terms is not identical to that of cognitive distortions, they overlap to a large extent. In this paper, the term cognitive distortions is used unless a reference is made to a study that used another term.
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