Abstract
This entry gives an overview of juvenile sex offenders by summarizing empirical literature on prevalence, theory development, risk factors, criminal career research, and typologies. Overall, the empirical research on juvenile sexual offending is limited; only recently has the subject gained the interest of the scientific community. Theory development has largely been influenced by concepts and theories used to study adult sex offending. Recidivism studies found that sexual recidivism rates are low, yet somewhat elevated compared with nonsexual offenders, the chances of nonsexual reoffending were found to be substantially higher. The developmental criminological perspective revealed that juvenile sex offenders were unlikely to become adult sex offenders. Risk factors associated with sexual offending were found to be specific traits, such as atypical sexual interests, and also traits associated with nonsexual offending. Additionally, several juvenile sex offender typologies are described.
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