Autism Spectrum Disorder and Sexual Offending

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Originally Published on August 18th, 2025 at 02:27 pm
Table of Contents
Overview
Summary
Implications for Mitigation
Reference

Overview

In many jurisdictions, there is an increasing number of individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder being charged with sexual crimes. While we know that these individuals are very different from those not on the spectrum, there is still limited research on the issue.

Summary

Magari et. al. (2024) published a systematic review of ASD and sexual offending in Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews in 2024. The goal of this research was to do the following:

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