Emotion recognition is central in prosocial interaction, enabling the inference of mental and affective states. Individuals who have committed sexual offenses are known to exhibit socio-affective deficits, one of the four dynamic risk assessment dimensions found in the literature. Few research focused on emotion recognition. The available literature, exclusively on individuals in prison who have committed sexual offenses, showed contrasting results. Some found a global (across all emotions) or specific (e.g., anger, fear) deficit in emotion recognition. In contrast, others found no difference between individuals in prison who have committed sexual offenses and those who have committed non-sexual offenses. In addition, no such study has been undertaken among forensic inpatients who exhibit socio-affective deficits. This study aims to investigate the recognition of dynamic facial expressions of emotion in 112 male participants divided into three groups: forensic inpatients who have committed sexual offenses (n = 37), forensic inpatients who have committed non-sexual offenses (n = 25), and community members (n = 50), using the Signal Detection Theory indices: sensitivity (d’) and response bias (c). In addition, measures related to reaction time, emotion labeling reflection time, task easiness, and easiness reflection time were also collected. Non-parametric analyses (Kruskall-Wallis’ H, followed by Mann-Whitney’s U with Dunn-Bonferroni correction) highlighted that the two forensic inpatient groups exhibited emotion recognition deficits when compared to community members. Forensic inpatients who have committed sexual offenses were more conservative in selecting the surprise label than community members. They also took significantly more time to react to stimuli and to select an emotional label. Despite emotion recognition deficits, the two forensic inpatient groups reported more stimuli easiness than community members.

Because they account for realistic effects in opportunistic maintenance modeling, dependency hypotheses are extremely diverse in the literature. Despite recent reviews, a clear view of the dependency hypotheses is currently missing in the literature, especially regarding component interactions, resource constraints and human factors. In this paper, we provide a conceptual background on dependence modeling and the notion of maintenance opportunity. Then, a critical systematic literature review, following the PRISMA guidelines, is carried out, focusing on the current hypotheses in opportunistic maintenance, including component interactions, workers’ skills and resource constraints, economic dependence and optimization objectives. The different dependence types are identified and defined, and their presence in the literature is quantified. The included papers in this review ($n=91$) were selected on the basis of relevance to the research questions from the Web of Science, Scopus and Google Scholar databases. Exclusion criteria were set, related to the year of publication (from 2000) and language (limited to French or English), and inclusion criteria required the paper to cover modeling, simulating or reviewing literature related to opportunistic maintenance with dependencies. The results show that economic dependence is mostly modeled by sharing downtime or set-up costs. The objective function for optimization is mostly found to be the economic cost of maintenance, with concerningly little consideration for environmental indicators. These results are finally discussed in light of advances in predictive analytics and current challenges in the sustainability of industrial processes. Further developments should consider including the social and environmental aspects of sustainability in the dependencies, but also look into the benefits that predictive analytics can bring to opportunistic maintenance. The variety of modeling assumptions and dependences presented in the literature does not always allow comparing the results of the models.

La validation de mesures d’attitudes envers les Auteurs d’Infractions à Caractère Sexuel (AICS) représente un enjeu majeur en raison de leur influence sur la stigmatisation et les stratégies de prévention cliniques, législatives ou politiques. Par sa solidité conceptuelle reposant sur les trois composantes des attitudes (cognition, affect, comportement), la version abrégée de l’ Attitudes to Sexual Offenders scale (ATS-21) est une mesure valide et fiable. Actuellement, aucune validation n’a été proposée dans la population belge francophone. Cette étude investigue les qualités psychométriques de la version française de l’ATS-21 et propose des normes d’interprétation dans un échantillon de 338 participants ( M _âge = 40,46 ans ; 79,29 % de femmes). Les scores sont comparables à ceux de l’étude de référence (Hogue et Harper, 2019), sauf pour les dimensions Confiance et Distance sociale . La consistance interne est acceptable à bonne pour l’ensemble de la mesure ( α = 0,75 -0,89) et les corrélations entre ses composantes sont élevées ( r = 0,62 -0,87). La validité convergente avec l’Acceptance of Modern Myths about Sexual Agression scale (AMMSA) est faible à modérée ( r = -0,09 - -0,37). La validité de contenu a été approfondie à l’aide d’analyses factorielles confirmatoire et exploratoire mettant également en évidence une structure tri-factorielle. Néanmoins, la ventilation des items au sein de ces facteurs diffère de celle de l’étude de référence.

Our master thesis consists on a meta-analysis concerning the effects of emotion and empathy deficits on sexual official offences. Our analyses included both self-reports and checklists measures of emotions. We assessed the discriminant validity of empathy and emotion deficits between adult and child victim sex offenders. We also compared the differential effects of cognitive and emotional empathy factors. We considered specific effects of fundamental positive and negative emotions. The results are discussed in light of literature on emotion responding among sex offenders and on current Risk-Need-Responsivity (Andrew & Bonta, 2015) versus “Good Life” (Ward & Beech, 2006) dominant therapy models. Résumé en Français: Titre: Analyse psychologique des délinquants sexuels Afin d’améliorer l’efficacité des thérapies appliquées aux délinquants sexuels, il est important de mieux comprendre leurs déficits dans le traitement des émotions et de l’empathie. Ce travail vise à mesurer la capacité d’empathie et de traitement des informations émotionnelles par les délinquants sexuels. Samenvatting in het Nederlands: Titel: Psychologische analyse van seksuele delinquenten. Om de doeltreffendheid van behandeling van seksuele delinquenten te verbeteren is het van belang te begrijpen waar het misloopt in de aanpak van emoties en empathie. Dit werk is gericht op het meten van de bekwaamheid tot empathie en het verwerken van emotionele informatie door seksuele delinquenten.