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Juvenile Sex Offenders: Toward the Development of a Typology

Departments of Health Evaluation Sciences, Psychology, and Psychiatric Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, jhunter{at}virginia.edu

Aurelio J. Figueredo

Department of Psychology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona

Neil M. Malamuth

Departments of Psychology and Communication Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, California

Judith V Becker

Department of Psychology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona

Adolescent males who sexually offended against prepubescent children were contrasted with those who targeted pubescent and postpubescent females. As hypothesized, path analyses revealed that the former group had greater deficits in psychosocial functioning, used less aggression in their sexual offending, and were more likely to offend against relatives. Theorized relationships between developmental risk factors, personality mediators, and sexual and nonsexual offense characteristics were assessed in both groups of juvenile sex offenders. Deficits in psychosocialfunctioning were found to mediate the influence of childhood exposure to violence against females on adolescent perpetration of sexual and nonsexual offenses. Additional univariate analyses were conducted to further explore some associations among early risk factors, personality mediators, and outcomes. Childhood physical abuse by a father or stepfather and exposure to violence against females were found to be associated with higher levels of comorbid anxiety and depression. Noncoercive childhood sexual victimization by a male nonrelative was found to be associated with sexual offending against a male child. Clinical and theoretical implications of the findings are discussed.

Key Words: sexual offending • risk factors • mediators • juveniles.

Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment, Vol. 15, No. 1, 27-48 (2003)
DOI: 10.1177/107906320301500103


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