%0 Journal Article %T Virtual characters designed for forensic assessment and rehabilitation of sex offenders: standardized and made-to-measure %A Renaud, Patrice %A Rouleau, Joanne-L. %A Proulx, Jean %A Trottier, Dominique %A Goyette, Mathieu %A Bradford, John P. %A Fedoroff, Paul %A Dufresne, Marie-Hélène %A Dassylva, Benoît %A Côté, Gilles %A Bouchard, Stéphane %J JVRB - Journal of Virtual Reality and Broadcasting %D 2010 %V 7(2010) %N 5 %@ 1860-2037 %F renaud2010 %X This paper presents two studies pertaining to the useof virtual characters applied in clinical forensic rehabilitationof sex offenders. The first study is about thevalidation of the perceived age of virtual characters designedto simulate primary and secondary sexual characterof typical adult and child individuals. The secondstudy puts to use these virtual characters in comparinga group of sex offenders and a group of nondeviant individuals on their sexual arousal responsesas recorded in virtual immersion. Finally, two clinicalvignettes illustrating the use of made-to-measure virtualcharacters to more closely fit sexual preferencesare presented in Discussion. %L 004 %K forensic rehabilitation %K immersive technology %K sexual plethysmography %K virtual characters %K virtual reality %R 10.20385/1860-2037/7.2010.5 %U http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0009-6-26466 %U http://dx.doi.org/10.20385/1860-2037/7.2010.5