A Comparison of the Personality and Background Characteristics of Adolescent Sex Offenders and Other Adolescent Offenders

1993 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 359-370 ◽  
Author(s):  
LORI L. OLIVER ◽  
GORDON C. NAGAYAMA HALL ◽  
STEVEN M. NEUHAUS
Keyword(s):  
Sex Offenders ◽  
Sex Offender ◽  
Adolescent Males ◽  
Sexual Offense ◽  
Background Characteristics ◽  
Adolescent Sex Offenders ◽  
Personality Differences ◽  
Jesness Inventory ◽  
Adolescent Sex Offender ◽  
Violent Offenses

The current study investigated personality differences between adolescent sex offenders and nonsexually offending adolescents on the Jesness Inventory. Subjects were 50 adolescent males charged with a sexual offense, 50 adolescent males charged with nonviolent offenses, and 50 adolescent males charged with violent offenses. The adolescent sex offender group generally displayed the least deviant personality and historical characteristics among the groups examined. These findings, inconsistent with the adult sex offender literature, suggest that sex offenders may be more amendable to treatment during adolescence than during adulthood and that early intervention may have preventive value.

Female Sex Offenders: A Comparison of Solo Offenders and Co-Offenders

2006 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 339-354 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donna M. Vandiver
Keyword(s):  
Sex Offenders ◽  
Sex Offender ◽  
National Sample ◽  
Small Sample ◽  
Sexual Offense ◽  
Female Sex Offenders ◽  
Female Victims ◽  
Female Sex ◽  
Small Sample Sizes ◽  
Cross National

Even though much of the prior sex offender literature focuses on males, recent research has included females as offenders. Such research, however, has been limited by small sample sizes. Several researchers have proposed typologies of female sex offenders that include both females who act alone (i.e., solo offenders) and females who act with another person (i.e., co-offenders), often a male. The current research includes a cross-national sample of 123 females who were solo offenders and 104 who were co-offenders. It was found that the two groups of females were not significantly different in regard to their age, race, time of offense, and the location of the offense. Co-offenders were more likely than solo offenders to have more than one victim, to have both male and female victims, to be related to the victim, and to have a nonsexual offense in addition to the sexual offense listed.

Evaluation of New Jersey's Sex Offender Treatment Program at the Adult Diagnostic and Treatment Center: Preliminary Results

2003 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 133-164 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristen M. Zgoba ◽  
Wayne R. Sager ◽  
Philip H. Witt
Keyword(s):  
Sex Offenders ◽  
Sexual Offenders ◽  
Sex Offender ◽  
Prison Population ◽  
Correctional Facility ◽  
Treatment Center ◽  
Offender Treatment ◽  
Sexual Offense ◽  
Sex Offender Treatment ◽  
Sexual Offenses

This study examined 10-year sexual and non-sexual offense recidivism for sex offenders released from New Jersey's general prison system and from the Adult Diagnostic and Treatment Center (ADTC), New Jersey's correctional facility and treatment center for repetitive-compulsive sexual offenders. The study found that sexual offenders released from the ADTC had significantly lower rates of committing both non-sexual offenses and any offense, compared with the general prison population of sex offenders. For both groups, the 10-year sexual offense reconviction rates were relatively low, 8.6% for the ADTC offenders and 12.7% for the general prison sexual offenders, while reoffense rates for non-sexual offenses were 25.8% and 44.1% for ADTC and general prison sex offenders, respectively.

Effects of Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment on Sex Offender Recidivism

1994 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
JANICE K. MARQUES ◽  
DAVID M. DAY ◽  
CRAIG NELSON ◽  
MARY ANN WEST
Keyword(s):  
Treatment Group ◽  
Sex Offenders ◽  
Statistical Power ◽  
Behavioral Treatment ◽  
Sex Offender ◽  
Cognitive Behavioral ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Cognitive Behavioral Treatment ◽  
Sex Offender Recidivism ◽  
Violent Offenses

Preliminary results from a longitudinal study of the effectiveness of cognitive-behavioral treatment with sex offenders are presented. The study's research design includes three groups: a treatment group, a volunteer control group (those who volunteered for but did not receive treatment), and a nonvolunteer control group (subjects who refused the opportunity for treatment). Although the treatment group had the lowest reoffense rates for both sex and other violent crimes, main effects analyses did not yield conclusive results regarding the program's effectiveness. The results highlight the importance of including appropriate comparison groups, managing attrition from both treatment and methodological standpoints, examining sex and other violent offenses separately as outcome variables, employing tests with adequate statistical power, and analyzing data while taking into account time at risk for reoffense.

Characteristics of adolescent sex offenders in New South Wales

2001 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 71-82
Author(s):  
Ian Nisbet ◽  
Katie Seidler
Keyword(s):  
Sex Offenders ◽  
Sex Offender ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Research Literature ◽  
Social Risk ◽  
Social Risk Factors ◽  
Adolescent Sex Offenders ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Offending Behaviour

AbstractCharacteristics of adolescents who sexually offend, their patterns of their offending behaviour and the defining features of their victims are firmly established in the overseas literature. The research literature in Australia, however, is less developed. This study describes the characteristics of a sample of clients of the Sex Offender Program of the New South Wales Department of Juvenile Justice and examines patterns of offence behaviours and related descriptions of victims. Adolescents who sexually offend in NSW have backgrounds of low educational attainment and abuse and a range of other social risk factors, and they are most likely to victimise female children. A typology of adolescent sex offenders based on their offending behaviour is offered.

Will They Do It Again?

2000 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 106-109 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Karl Hanson
Keyword(s):  
Juvenile Delinquency ◽  
Sex Offenders ◽  
Sexual Offenders ◽  
Antisocial Personality Disorder ◽  
Sexual Offense ◽  
Sexual Recidivism ◽  
Sexual Preferences ◽  
General Recidivism ◽  
Violent Offenses ◽  
Deviant Sexual Preferences

This article reviews the empirical research on the prediction of reoffending among sexual offenders. The major predictors of sexual-offense recidivism are factors related to sexual deviance (e.g., deviant sexual preferences, previous sex crimes) and, to a lesser extent, criminal lifestyle (e.g., antisocial personality disorder, total number of prior offenses). The factors that predict general recidivism among sex offenders are the same as the factors that predict general recidivism among nonsexual criminals (e.g., juvenile delinquency, prior violent offenses). Given that there are special predictors of sexual recidivism, evaluators should consider separately the risk for sexual and non-sexual recidivism.

Sex Offender Mobility: An Application of Crime Pattern Theory Among Child Sex Offenders

Sexual Abuse ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 30 (8) ◽  
pp. 908-931 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melanie C. Mogavero ◽  
Ko-Hsin Hsu
Keyword(s):  
Sex Offenders ◽  
Sex Offender ◽  
Heterogeneous Group ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Sexual Offense ◽  
Pattern Theory ◽  
Crime Pattern Theory ◽  
Situational Characteristics ◽  
Crime Pattern

Sex offenders are a heterogeneous group and exhibit various offense patterns. Often the location where the offender committed the offense is different from where the offender encountered their victim. Applying crime pattern theory, this study sought to understand if the type of location, victim, and situational characteristics could predict whether an offender would commit the sexual offense in a different and more secluded location than where he first encountered the victim. Among a sample of 114 incarcerated sex offenders, the results showed that offenders who contacted their victims in locations where children are known to congregate were more than 4 times more likely to travel to a more secluded location to complete the sexual offense. Those who used noncoercive strategies (e.g., bribes, seduction) during the offense process were approximately 7 times more likely to travel to a more secluded location that those who did not. Policy implications of the findings are discussed.

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