ABSTRACT
The Self-Regulation Model (SRM) of sexual offending (Ward & Hudson, 1998) is an offense-process model which includes the cognitive, behavioral, affective, and contextual factors that lead to the occurrence of a sexual offense. The model was designed to account for the diversity of sexual offending and to better describe the offense process, without the limitations inherent in the Relapse Prevention Model (RPM; Ward, Louden, Hudson, & Marshall, 1995; Yates & Kingston, 2005; Yates & Ward, 2007, 2008). The SRM (see Figure 14.1) was derived from self-regulation theory, a complex model of decision-making and goal-directed behavior (Baumeister & Heatherton, 1996; Baumeister & Vohs, 2004), and describes a multi-phase model of offense progression, from the event that initiates the progression through to decision-making and the evaluation of behavior following the commission of a sexual offense. The model also delineates four pathways to offending based on whether goal-directed actions result from inhibitory or appetitive goals, and whether the strategies to achieve offense-related goals are passive or active. These four pathways are described briefly below. The Self-Regulation Model of sexual offending. https://s3-euw1-ap-pe-df-pch-content-public-p.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/9780203762615/d5ac6c08-f25b-46e2-b89d-6d785b732a43/content/ch14fig1_B.tif" xmlns:xlink="https://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"/>
