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Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment
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Examining Childhood Abuse Patterns and Sensitive Periods in Juvenile Sexual Offenders

Adam S. Grabell and Raymond A. Knight PhD*

* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: knight2{at}brandeis.edu;knight2@imap.faculty.brandeis.edu.


  Abstract
Findings in the sexual aggression literature on the link between childhood sexual abuse and future sexual coercion have been inconsistent. In adult sexual offenders, studies have found that the relation of sexual abuse to sexual coercion is mediated by sexually related deviant cognitions, but this mediation is not found when replicated on juvenile sexual offenders. In this study it is hypothesized that this link will be found in juvenile sexual offenders when their sexual abuse history is stratified into discrete developmental epochs. It is further hypothesized that the age range of 3 to 7 years, when children rapidly acquire inhibition and cognitive flexibility skills, will be the most potent predictor. A sample of 193 juvenile sexual offenders is used to examine whether sexual abuse specifically in this discrete period, as opposed to other periods, predicts subsequent sexual fantasy. The results confirm that sexual abuse correlates with later adolescent sexual fantasy only during the 3- to 7-year epoch.

First published on April 7, 2009, doi:10.1177/1079063209333133

Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment 2009;21:208.

A more recent version of this article appeared on June 1, 2009

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