Jean Proulx is Director of the School of Criminology, University of Montreal. Eric Beauregard is an Assistant Professor at the School of Criminology, Simon Fraser University and he is the co-director of the Centre for Research on Sexual Violence. Patrick Lussier is an Associate Professor at the School of Criminology at Simon Fraser University. Benoit Leclerc is a criminologist in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Griffith University.

• Introduction Part I. Theoretical and empirical bases 1. Pithers’ Relapse-Prevention Model 2. Ward and Hudson’s Pathways and Self-Regulation Models 3. Routine Activities and Rational Choice in the Offending Process of Sexual Aggressors Part II. Pathways in the Offending Process of Sexual Aggressors: A Multifactorial Study 4. Pathways in the Offending Process of Extrafamilial Sexual Aggressors of Women 5. Pathways in the Offending Process of Marital Rapists 6. Pathways in the Offending Process of Extrafamilial Sexual Aggressors of Children 7. Pathways in the Offending Process of Incest Offenders 8. Pathways in the Offending Process of Hebephilic Offenders 9. Pathways in the Offending Process of Polymorphic Sexual Aggressors Part III. Criminal Career and Recidivism in Sexual Aggressors 10. A Criminal-Career Approach to Sex Offender Subtypes 11. Offending Pathways and Recidivism in Five Extrafamilial Sex Offender Subtypes Part IV. Pathways in the Offending Process of Sexual Aggressors: Additional Studies 12. Rapists and Sexual Murderers: Combined Pathways to Offending 13. Offense Pathways of Extrafamilial Child Molesters: A UK Study 14. The Self-Regulation Model of the Sexual Offence Process: Theory and Research Conclusion.

"...an accessible overview of the past and current research into the antecedents of sexual offending... Proulx and his colleagues provide both old and new information that is suitable to all scholarly audiences."—David Prescott, Association for the Treatment of Sexual Offenders