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Juvenile Sex Offenders
Resources and research on children, adolescents, and youth who sexually abuse other children.
Adolescent Sex Offenders With Mental Retardation: Literature Review and Assessment Considerations
Timms & Goreczny
Aggression and Violent Behavior, 7(1), 2002
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Reviews the literature on social deficits of individuals, characteristics of offenders, and specific issues for offenders.
Adults, Adolescents, and Children Who Sexually Abuse Children: A Developmental Perspective
Chaffin, Letourneau, & Silovsky (2002, 2nd ed.)
In The APSAC Handbook on Child Maltreatment
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Describes the characteristics and differences among adult, adolescent, and child perpetrators and addresses the fact that existing interventions and public policies do not consider these differences.
Characteristics of Youth Who Sexually Offend
Righthand
Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, 13(3-4), 2004
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Provides an overview.
Community-Based Standards For Addressing Youth Who Have Caused Sexual Harm (PDF - 504 KB)
Providence Service Corporation (2007)
Empirically-based benchmarks for community programs working with youth who have caused sexual harm and their families.
Juvenile-Perpetrated Sex Crimes: Patterns of Offending and Predictors of Violence
Hunter, Hazelwood, & Slesinger
Journal of Family Violence, 15(1), 2000
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Compared criminal records of juveniles arrested for sex offenses against children and peer-adult offenders to distinguish the characteristics of the types of offenses committed.
Juvenile Sexual Offender Treatment: A Systematic Review of Evidence-Based Research: Final Report (PDF - 390 KB)
Winokur, Rozen, Batchelder, & Valentine (2006)
Reviews studies from 1995 to 2005 of juvenile sexual offender treatment in order to provide practitioners and policymakers with evidence-based research to more effectively implement treatment programs for these youth.
Juveniles Who Have Sexually Offended: A Review of the Professional Literature
Righthand & Welch (2001)
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Summarizes the findings of previous research about the functioning of offenders; child maltreatment histories and mental health issues; types and classifications of males, females, and young children who commit sex offenses; clinical and risk assessment; and treatment approaches.
Sexual Assault by Children
Moffatt (2003)
In Wounded Innocents and Fallen Angels: Child Abuse and Child Aggression
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Presents a profile of juvenile sexual offenders along with statistics on child molestations committed by people under the age of 18.
Youth Sex Offenders
In Child and Youth Security Sourcebook (2003)
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Provides a profile of male and female adolescent offenders, along with information on prevalence, seriousness, typical locations, and reasons for their offenses.
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