Juvenile Sex Offender Case Study

Discuss the characteristics, risk factors, protective factors, and typologies associated with juvenile sex offenders.

Juvenile sexual offending behavior is defined as “any forced or coercive sexual contact, substantial threats of such contact, any sexual contact with a much younger child, or any nonconsensual sexual behavior that violates conventional standards” (Wolf, 2008, p. 7). Sexual offenses include oral-genital contact, attempted or actual vaginal or anal penetration. Prevalence rates of juvenile sexual offending include juvenile offenders are responsible for 40% of sexual assaults against victims under the age of 6, 56% of molested boys are victims of an adolescent, and younger juvenile victims tended to have a greater proportion of

Wijkman, Bijlevela, & Hendriks, (2014) estimated that less than 3% of all sex offending is committed by females. There are three subtypes of juvenile female sex offender they are baby-sitter abuse, victims of sexual abuse who project their own experiences onto brother/sisters or peers; and severely disordered offenders who have experienced high levels of trauma (Wijkman, Bijlevela, & Hendriks, 2014). Roe – Sepowitz and Krysik (2008) makes important points about female juvenile sex offenders they include those with a history of child maltreatment are more likely to have a current mental health diagnosis and it would find out that those female JSOs with this history had higher levels of coercion of their victims. In terms of ethnicity and adolescent female sexual offender (AFSOs) the study done by van der Put, van Vugt, Stams, Geert, and Hendriks (2014) there were more Caucasians (80%) when compared to African Americans (5%), Hispanic Americans (5%), and other (3%) in their

Goals for the treatment of juvenile sex offenders include confronting denial, decreasing the deviant sexual arousal, promoting victim empathy, assisting with values clarification, teaching to recognize the internal and external antecedents of the sexual offending behavior (Saleh, Grudzinskas, & Bradford, 2009). Adolescent offender tend to be more amenable to treatment for the following reasons: the pattern of sexual offending behavior is less ingrained, they are still exploring other ways to sexual gratification, they are able to learn more effective interpersonal and social skills since their brains are stilling developing, and their fantasies are continuingly evolving and are not consolidated (Saleh, Grudzinskas, & Bradford,