Workshop: Regulatory Gaps in Continuous Processing

1 Objectives To provide a forum for participants to discuss and share experiences relating regulatory approaches and challenges when implementing or considering ICB. Please click Additional Files below to see the full abstract

Risk as reward: Reinforcement sensitivity theory and psychopathic personality perspectives on everyday risk-taking

This study updates and synthesises research on the extent to which impulsive and antisocial disposition predicts everyday pro- and antisocial risk-taking behaviour. We use the Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory (RST) of personality to measure approach, avoidance, and inhibition dispositions, as well as measures of Callous-Unemotional and psychopathic personalities. In an international sample of 454 respondents, results showed that RST, psychopathic personality, and callous-unemotional measures accounted for different aspects of risk-taking behaviour. Specifically, traits associated with ‘fearlessness’ related more to ‘prosocial’ (recreational and social) risk-taking, whilst traits associated with ‘impulsivity’ related more to ‘antisocial’ (ethical and health) risk-taking. Further, we demonstrate that psychopathic personality may be demonstrated by combining the RST and callous-unemotional traits (high impulsivity, callousness, and low fear). Overall this study showed how impulsive, fearless and antisocial traits can be used in combination to identify pro- and anti-social risk-taking behaviours; suggestions for future research are indicated

The Role of Caregiver Disruption in the Development of Juvenile Sexual Offenders

In the last decade, it has been recognized that juveniles commit as much as 20% of all sexual offenses in the United States (DOJ, 2004). Research that attempts to understand why young people commit sex crimes points to an array of family factors that may uniquely contribute to the development of sexual offending over and above general juvenile delinquency. This study specifically examines disrupted caregiving, or receiving insufficient or substitute care, as a potential moderator in the relationship between offense status and caregiver-child relationship quality. Four distinct moderators were tested: gender of caregiver, biological relationship between caregiver and child, number of times the youth has changed caregivers, and child maltreatment history. Results indicate that juvenile sexual offenders have particularly poor relationships with their primary caregivers, and that caregiver gender, biological relationship between caregiver and child, and child maltreatment history act as moderators. Thus, while juvenile sexual offenders in general have poor relationships with their caregivers, those with male caregivers and those who have experienced physical abuse, sexual abuse, and neglect, have relationships that are even worse. In contrast, sexual offenders raised by non-biological caregivers showed better relationship quality than did youth raised by their biological parents. These findings suggest opportunities for early intervention, before caregiving is disrupted. Furthermore, additional supports may be offered to youth whose family structures suggest that they may be at increased risk

The Impact of Disrupted Caregiving for Juvenile Sexual Offenders

Research that attempts to understand why young people commit sex crimes points to an array of family factors that may uniquely contribute to sexual offending over general juvenile delinquency. This study examines the potentially moderating role of disrupted caregiving in the relationship between offending and caregiver-child relationship quality. Two distinct moderators were tested: gender of caregiver and biological relationship between caregiver and child. Results indicate that juvenile sexual offenders have particularly poor relationships with their primary caregivers compared to incarcerated non-sexual offenders and community controls. Furthermore, sexual offenders with male caregivers were found to have lower relationship quality scores than sexual offenders with female caregivers. In contrast, sexual offenders raised by non-biological caregivers reported better relationship quality than did offenders raised by their biological parents. These findings suggest opportunities for early intervention, before caregiving is disrupted

The Impact of Paternal Caregivers for Youth Who Commit Sexual Offenses

This dissertation presents three manuscripts exploring the impact of caregivers, particularly male caregivers, on the development of juvenile sexual offending behavior. The first manuscript investigated the role of disrupted caregiving for juvenile sexual offenders compared to non-offending juveniles and youth who committed non-sexual crimes. The results indicated that juvenile sexual offenders have particularly poor relationships with their primary caregivers, especially if their primary caregiver was male. The second manuscript is a systematic literature review that explored the pathways through which male caregivers may influence the sexually aggressive behavior of their sons. A total of thirty-four articles describing three pathways (i.e., direct transmission of offending, father-son relationships, and paternal socio-emotional characteristics) revealed having a sexually aggressive father dramatically increases the risk that the son will also engage in sexual offending. Poor father-son relationship quality also significantly increased the chance of the son becoming sexually aggressive. Finally, the third study tested an integrated model of paternal caregiving risk factors that may predict juvenile engagement in sexually aggressive behaviors. Results again indicated that abusive paternal parenting is more predictive of juvenile sexual offending than is witnessing a father act violently or nonbiological paternal caregiving. Overall, the three manuscripts aim to enhance our understanding of the impacts of early caregiving experiences for young sexual offenders and highlights prevention and treatment implications by engaging male caregivers

P. Adams Sitney Film Lecture (Side A)

Lecture on Gertrude Stein and Avante-Garde Film. February, 11th, 1988 in Olin Auditoriumhttps://digitalcommons.bard.edu/poetry_at_bard/1080/thumbnail.jp

The Orphic Vision of Brakhage's Cinema

With a screening of The Dante Quartet A discussion of the relationship of cinema to memory, imagination, closed eye vision, and poetry, through the work of the prolific experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage (1933-2003). His best-known works include The Wonder Ring (1955), The Dead (1960), Blue Moses (1962), Mothlight (1963), 23rd Psalm Branch (1966-67), the Scenes from Under Childhood cycle (1967-70), and the Arabic Numeral Series (1981-82). The lecture will discuss Brakhage&#8217;s hand-painted The Dante Quartet(1987, 7 min.). P. Adams Sitney is currently a fellow of the American Academy in Berlin. He is the author ofVisionary Film (Oxford University Press, 1974, 2nd edn. 1979, 3rd edn. 2002); Vital Crises in Italian Cinema: Iconography, Stylistics, Politics (University of Texas Press, 1995); Modernist Montage: The Obscurity of Vision in Cinema and Literature (Columbia University Press, 1992), and Eyes Upside Down: Visionary Filmmakers and the Heritage of Emerson (Oxford University Press, 2009). He is a Professor in the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University.P. Adams Sitney, The Orphic Vision of Brakhage’s Cinema, lecture and screening, ICI Berlin, 23 March 2011, part 1, video recording, mp4, 11:42 <https://doi.org/10.25620/e110323

Film/Religion: A Conversation with P. Adams Sitney

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