In this chapter, various means used to process juvenile offenders are considered. The juvenile court was created with the specific philosophy of serving as a parent substitute for those children in need of supervision and parental care. The underlying approach to the processing of juvenile offenders...
More than 20 years ago, Charles Borduin, a University of Missouri researcher, developed a treatment for juvenile offenders that has become one of the most widely used evidence-based treatments in the world. Now, he has found that the treatment continues to have positive effects on former ...
Chapters in this book address the diverse population of correctional facilities, including juvenile offenders; those with mental illness, addiction and substance abuse problems, physical and mental disabilities; and homeless populations. The author also provides analysis of how legislation influences the cor...
Sexual abuse of children is disturbingly frequent, making it critical to understand the behavior of sexual offenders against children. The etiology is not well understood, but likely involves biological, cognitive, and personality factors as well as offe
The relationship between intellectual disability, Indigenous status and risk of reoffending in juvenile offenders on community orders Background Intellectual disability (ID), age and aboriginal status have been independently implicated as risk factors for offending to varying degrees. Thi... M Frize,D ...
We explore the possibility that disgust sensitivity predicts attitudes toward a stigmatized, yet vulnerable population: juvenile sex offenders. Participants were 125 undergraduates (66% women, M age = 19) who read a case depicting a 17‐year‐old boy convicted of aggravated child molestation for rec...
University of Oklahoma, OK, USAJohn Wiley & Sons, LtdFrey, L. (2010). The juvenile female sexual offender: Characteristics, treatment, and research. In T. Gannon & F. Cortoni (Eds.), Female sexual offenders: Theory, assessment, and treatment (pp. 53-72). Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell....
In work with juvenile sexual offenders, it has become increasingly common to link disturbed or under-developed early attachment relationships to the later development of pathology. Beginning with a detailed and critical overview of attachment theory, Attachment and Sexual Offending provides an analysis of...