Abstract
This chapter addresses the role of personality traits and disorders in sexual offending behavior. The ability to identify specific traits related to target antisocial behaviors has specific value in forensic psychiatry, especially in risk assessment and in planning and implementing treatment and management programs for violent persons, including sexual offenders. Increasing knowledge regarding genesis of personality traits related to subsequent antisocial behavior and sexual offending also carries great potential for the implementation of early treatment and prevention programs for youth at risk. When one looks at many of the empirically proven risk factors for sexual abuse, one is struck that there are substantial shared factors associated with the genesis of juvenile delinquency and general antisocial functioning as well as substance abuse. It is probable that multiple risk factors are required and that no single risk factor is sufficient to explain the genesis of sexual offending behavior.
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