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Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment
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Violent Juvenile Sex Offenders Compared with Violent Juvenile Nonsex Offenders: Explorative Findings From the Pittsburgh Youth Study

Anton van Wijk

Police Academy of the Netherlands, Apeldoorn, The Netherlands, aphvanwijk{at}chello.nl

Rolf Loeber

University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Free University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Robert Vermeiren

Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Dustin Pardini

University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Ruud Bullens

Department of Forensic Child and Juvenile Psychology, Free University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Theo Doreleijers

Department of Child Psychiatry, Free University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Only a limited number of studies have compared the psychosocial characteristics of juvenile sex offenders and nonsex offenders. The results of these studies have often been contradictory. Furthermore, studies in normal population groups are rare and most of those studies have been conducted in specific populations. This paper reports on the findings of a prospective, longitudinal study, the Pittsburgh Youth Study, in which violent male sex offenders (n = 39) were compared with violent nonsex offenders (n = 430) based on 66 demographic and psychosocial characteristics. The findings show that the sex offenders resembled the nonsex violent offenders with respect to nearly all child, family, peer and demographic risk factors. Some suggestions are made with regard to future research.

Key Words: longitudinal study • juvenile sex offenders • nonsex offenders • predictive factors.

Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment, Vol. 17, No. 3, 333-352 (2005)
DOI: 10.1177/107906320501700306
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