Comparing Social Climate Perceptions of Staff and Juveniles with Sexual Behavior Problems

Children with Sexual Behavior Problems:

Children and adolescents with sexual behavior problems.

Youth with substantial sexual behavior problems (n = 166) were compared with youth from the same sample with few sexual behavior problems (n = 413) and with no sexual behavior problems (n = 943). It was hypothesized that youth with significant sexual behavior problems would be characterized by higher rates of sexual and physical abuse and higher rates of internalizing problems relative to youth...

Childhood Abuse and Mental Health Problems in Sexual Offending Juveniles compared to General Offending Juveniles

Objective: to examine the relationship between a history of childhood abuse and mental health problems in juveniles who sexually offended (JSOs) compared to juveniles who offended non-sexually (non-JSOs). Methods: a sample of 44 JSOs and 763 non-JSOs incarcerated in two juvenile detention centers in the Netherlands between May 2008 and March 2014 were examined for childhood abuse history (Child...

Mental Health Problems in Sexual Offending Juveniles compared to General Offending Juveniles

Background: There is a need for better knowledge about the relationship between sexual

Were adolescent sexual offenders children with sexual behavior problems?

This article compares responses of three groups of incarcerated adolescents who admitted to sexual offending in an anonymous survey project on measures of trauma, sexual offending, the relationship between trauma and perpetration, and adjudication status. The first group admitted to sexual offending before the age of 12 only (n = 48), the second after the age of 12 only (n = 130), and the third...