Understanding Sexual Offending (PDF)

interests include criminal careers, desistance, developmental criminology, foster care, gang involvement, psychopathy, sexual offending, and violence. His work is published in Psychological Assessment, Crime and Delinquency, Sexual Abuse, Justice Quarterly, and Journal of Quantitative Criminology. He is on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Criminal Justice and Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice. He is the recipient of the Simon Fraser University Dean's Convocation Medal for Academic Excellence, the American Psychology-Law Society Outstanding Dissertation Award, and the American Society of Criminology Division of Developmental and Life Course Criminology Early Career Award.



Jesse Cale is an Associate Professor of Criminology in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Griffith University in the Gold Coast, Australia. He completed his PhD in 2010 at Simon Fraser University in Canada and was awarded the Governor General of Canada Academic Gold Medal for his doctoral studies. Following his Ph.D. he was awarded a prestigious research fellowship with the Griffith Youth Forensic Service, a clinic that provides treatment for youth who have committed sexual offences, at Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia. His main areas of research involve the causes and consequences of sexual violence, developmental criminology and criminal justice policy and evaluation. He is a Chief Investigator on several large-scale research grants in Australia funded by the Australian Research Council and different state governments and agencies examining the development of delinquency and criminal offending and the effectiveness of criminal justice policy responses. He has published his research in leading international criminology and criminal justice books, and journals such as: Sexual Abuse, the Journal of Criminal Justice, Aggression and Violent Behavior, the Journal of Interpersonal Violence, and Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice. He is a member of the American Society of Criminology, the Australia and New Zealand Society of Criminology, and serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology. the Canadian Journal of Criminology, and Victims and Offenders. He was recently a Visiting Scholar at the Institute of Criminology at Cambridge University.