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Treating Juvenile Sex Offenders

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Approximately 20% of all rapes (Brown et al. 1984; Morenz and Becker 1995; Pastore and Maguire 2007) and 30–50% of child molestations are carried out by youth under 18 years of age (Brown et al. 1984; Ryan 1999). Studies of adolescent sex offenders have shown that the majority commit their first sexual offense before 15 years of age and not infrequently before 12 years of age (Barbaree and Marshall 2006; Rubenstein et al. 1993). The younger the age of the victim, the more likely they are to have been victimized by a juvenile rather than an adult (Snyder and Sickmund 2006). Preadolescents are being referred for sexual behavior problems in increasing numbers (Araji 1997). Many juvenile sex offenders (JSOs) have more than one victim, and clearly, if they begin a pattern of sexual offending as juveniles and continue sexual offending as adults, JSOs can have many victims. Studies show that JSOs average eight to nine sexual offenses, with four to seven victims (Shaw et al. 1993). Reported crime statistics underestimate the extent of juvenile sexual offenses (Moore et al. 2004).

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Bereiter, J., Mullen, D. (2012). Treating Juvenile Sex Offenders. In: Grigorenko, E. (eds) Handbook of Juvenile Forensic Psychology and Psychiatry. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-0905-2_25

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