Offense Characteristics Research Articles

Female sexual offenders and judicial decision-making

Background: Research examining female sexual offending is limited, and the profile of this unique offender group is not well understood. Female sexual offending has largely been identified as a rare occurrence, typically perpetrated in the context of an unhealthy relationship with a paraphilic male counterpart. Given recent changes in law and minimum sentences for sexual offences—particularly in relation to child pornography and child luring offences—it remains unknown how this has impacted sentencing of female offenders charged with sexual offences. Objectives: The goal of this study is to better understand female offenders convicted of sexual offences and their offence characteristics. Additionally, it seeks to identify patterns in judges’ decision-making with respect to aggravating and mitigating factors that impact sentencing decisions.Methods: A sample of 26 judges’ sentencing decisions between 2000 and 2017 were obtained to investigate the Canadian female sexual offender (FSO) as she enters the justice system. Results: In the study sample, high rates of psychopathology and childhood trauma were important features of this offender group. Offences tended to occur over extended periods, with a male co-offender, and with a young victim that was well known to the offender. Aggravating factors related to the vulnerability of the victim, abuse of power, and lack of insight. Mitigating factors related to accepting responsibility and a desire for self-change. Offenders were generally sentenced for two to five years, with ancillary orders intended to track and restrict further offending, rather than foster rehabilitation. Discussion: Gaining a better understanding of Canadian FSO population is the first step toward improving rehabilitation and prevention.

Administrative Delicts and Administrative Delict Law

The subject of study in this paper are administrative-delict legal relations and the terms associated with this kind of relations. The purpose of the study is to analyze the nature of offences and administrative delicts. It is stated that the use of the term “delictum” it's been a certain evolution from private legal term in the sense of “delicta private” to the term, which can be used both in the sense of “delicta private” and value of “delicta publica”. The conclusion is that the term “delict” may be used in public relations and administrative legal use of the term “administrative delict”. Expanding the range of investigated administrative and delict relations, entails a change and the essential characteristics of administrative offenses, and also creates preconditions for formation of administrative-tort system of prevention of offenses, including not only administrative offences but also other offences that are not related to crimes and civil offenses. In this case, the responsibility should be named administrative and delict, which, in essence, will include a modern administrative and administrative-disciplinary liability. Depending on the nature of the administrative delict may be subdivided into administrative offense and administrative misdemeanor. The essential characteristics of an administrative offense should be upheld, and administrative misdemeanor must be attributed those acts which are now administrative and disciplinary misconduct. With this division of administrative delicts it is possible to realize a codification of administrative and delict legislation, i.e. the creation of Administrative-delict code of the Russian Federation. The work also made the assumption that procedural violations are treated as administrative delict. An attempt is made to distinguish between material legal relations in administrative law and administrative procedural legal relations. Concluded that you cannot mix administrative-tort legal relations, as a kind of material with tort and procedural legal relations. In turn, tort and procedural legal relations are an integral part of administrative and legal proceedings, and administrative delict production is an integral part of the administrative process. The methodological basis of the article is dialectical, formal logical methods, formal-legal method and method of interpretation of law.

Criminal recidivism and psychosocial adversity in offense-related subtypes of sexually abusive adolescents

ABSTRACT Criminal behaviours vary significantly among juveniles who have sexually offended (JSOs). Offense-related subtypes may differ in criminal persistence and inform clinical practice. In the present study, Latent Class Analysis empirically derived four distinct JSO subtypes based on 10 offense/victim characteristics in a comprehensive sample of 670 JSOs (M age = 14.49, SD age = 1.94): a severe peer/adult-offender subtype (22.4%), a child-offender subtype (30.1%), a touch-offender subtype (27.9%), and a verbal/online-offender subtype (19.6%). Cox regressions indicated that JSOs of the severe peer/adult-offender subtype were at increased risk of sexual and nonsexual criminal recidivism. JSOs of the severe peer/adult-offender subtype as well as the child victim subtype appeared highly burdened with behaviour/social problems and psychosocial adversity/adverse childhood experiences. Our findings show that the variety of offense characteristics, predispositions, and recidivism risks characterising JSOs deserve precise consideration to allow the implementation of effective, individually tailored treatment approaches aimed at reducing future crime.

Patterns and Predictors of Reincarceration among Prisoners with Serious Mental Illness: A Cohort Study: Modèles et prédicteurs de réincarcération chez les prisonniers souffrant de maladie mentale grave : Une étude de cohorte.

A small proportion of people who have serious mental illness and rapid and frequent incarcerations account for a disproportionate amount of overall service use and cost. It is important to describe such individuals, so that services can respond more effectively. We investigated a cohort of 4,704 incarcerated men and women who were discharged from a correctional mental health service and followed for a median of 535 days. We investigated social, clinical, demographic, and offense characteristics as predictors of return to the service using Cox survival analyses. Secondly, we characterized individuals as high-frequency service users as those who had 3 or more incarcerations during a 1-year period and investigated their characteristics. We found that a higher rate of return to custody was associated with schizophrenia spectrum/bipolar affective disorder (BPAD), personality disorder traits, crack cocaine and methamphetamine use, and unstable housing. Charges of theft/robbery and breach of probation were also positively associated, and sex assault was negatively associated with return to custody. Within a 1-year time period, we found 7.2% of individuals were high-frequency service users, which accounted for 19.5% of all reincarcerations. Identification of the characteristics of those with mental illness in custody, especially those who have high-frequency returns to custody, may provide opportunity to target resources more effectively. The primary targets of intervention would be to treat those with schizophrenia/BPAD and substance use problems, particularly those using stimulants, and addressing homelessness. This could reduce the problem of repeated criminalization of the mentally ill and reduce the overall incarceration rate.

Distinguishing the features of offenders who do and do not complete substance use treatment in corrections: Extending the reach of psychological services.

Approximately 80% of offenders serving sentences in Canadian federal institutions present a history of substance use that requires psychological services. Correctional substance use programs (SUPs) have been shown to be effective in reducing reconviction for offenders who complete all sessions. However, a significant proportion of offenders entering an SUP do not complete the program for offender-related reasons such as dropping out or suspension. The purpose of the present study was to examine the prevalence of SUP noncompletion and the extent to which offenders who do not complete because of offender-related reasons differ from completers and those who do not complete for administrative reasons (e.g., transferred, released, program cancelled) on demographics, offense characteristics, substance use severity, SUP exposure, criminogenic needs, risk of recidivism, reintegration potential, and institutional charges. The study considered 4,592 federally sentenced men offenders who were enrolled in an SUP. Results showed that noncompleters for offender reasons were younger, less educated, less motivated for intervention, more likely to have committed a violent crime, more likely to have incurred a serious charge while incarcerated, more likely to have presented severe substance use, and more likely to report an unstable employment history. There were relatively few differences between SUP completers and SUP noncompleters for administrative reasons. The results highlight that noncompleters for offender reasons present individual characteristics that might affect their responsivity to treatment. Identifying offenders presenting this specific profile and tailoring psychological services to facilitate their learning could help reduce program noncompletion and improve rehabilitation. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).

Reported Sexual-offense Incidents in the United States: Arrest Disparities between Women and Men.

This study examined the effect of an offender's sex (male/female) on whether sexual-offense incidents reported to law enforcement culminated in an arrest. Two hypotheses, chivalry and evil woman, are relied upon and suggest that the probability of arrest differs for women and men, yet in differing directions. The chivalry hypothesis suggests women are treated more leniently than men and, therefore, less likely to be arrested. The evil woman hypothesis, however, suggests the opposite: Women are treated more harshly than men and, therefore, more likely to be arrested. Seven years of National Incident-based Reporting System [NIBRS] data were relied upon (National Archive of Criminal Justice Data, 2010-2016, National Incident-based Reporting System: Extract Files); all of the reported sexual-offense incidents committed by women were included, along with a matched sample of reported sexual-offense incidents committed by men, culminating in a sample of 22,744. Overall, women were 42% significantly less likely than men to be arrested when controlling for other known offense, offender, and victim characteristics. The odds for women to be arrested increased, however, when specific offender demographics, offense characteristics, and victim characteristics were taken into account. The implications of these findings are discussed in regard to their application of the chivalry and evil woman hypotheses.

Multiple‐victim parricides in South Africa, 1990–2019

AbstractPrevious studies of homicides in South Africa have examined serial murders and mass killings. While some scholars have examined parricides in African countries such as Ghana and Zimbabwe, few have examined the intersection of parricide and multiple victim homicides in the context of South Africa. This paper examines multiple victim parricides in a South African context using newspapers and court records as data. Eighteen cases of multiple‐victim parricides were identified and analysed. Our findings indicate that multiple victim parricides in South Africa are shaped by residential patterns as well as social and cultural factors that are unique to South Africa that are embodied in the offence characteristics. The implications on the findings are discussed.

Psychiatric and Forensic Differences Between Men Charged with Sex Offences and Men Charged with Other Offences.

Studies on differences between individuals convicted of sexual offences and nonsexual offences are sparse and there is an on-going debate as to whether sexual offenders differ from other offenders. The primary aim of this study was to determine demographic characteristics, prevalence of mental disorders, alcohol and drug use at the time of the crime and the criminal responsibility of individuals charged with sexual offences, compared to nonsexual crimes, with the aim of bringing awareness to the similarities and differences between men charged with sex offences and those charged with other crimes. This is a single-institution retrospective study of subjects charged with sexual offences and sent for institutional psychiatric evaluation to a Forensic Psychiatric Centre in an urban, academic, tertiary-care center. The control group consisted of individuals charged with nonsexual offences referred to the same center. Results showed significant differences between individuals charged with sexual offences and nonsexual offences. Men charged with sex offences more frequently committed their crimes alone and victimized children equally as often as adults. They also less frequently pleaded guilty in court. They were more likely to be abused in childhood and more often had antisocial personality disorder and paraphilias and less often substance-related disorders. The majority were considered criminally responsible. Our results show that sex offenders are different from nonsex offenders in many characteristics of their personal history, offence characteristics and forensic evaluations and these particular differences warrant different approaches to the prevention of future re-offending, compared to nonsex offenders.

Особа як елемент криміналістичної характеристики доведення до банкрутства (ст. 219 Кримінального кодексу України).

У статті розглянуто поняття і сутність особи як еле-менту криміналістичної характеристики криміналь-ного правопорушення доведення до банкрутства. На підставі аналізу статистичних даних, слідчої та судової практики виокремлено ознаки фізичних осіб, які вчиняють цей вид правопорушення, та обґрунтова-на доцільність розширення кола суб’єктів, шляхом включення юридичних осіб. Цей підхід зумовлений випадками рейдерського захоплення активів підпри-ємств, які призводять до стійкої фінансової неспро-можності. Наявні методики розслідування доведення до банкрутства не містять рекомендацій правоохорон-ним органам з цього питання. Злочинці намагаються створити видимість здійснення законної діяльності, заздалегідь продумують способи вчинення дій, ске-рованих на доведення до банкрутства, визначають поетапність укладання заздалегідь невигідних угод, здійснення фінансово-господарських операцій, забез-печують конфіденційність домовленостей з іншими суб’єктами – юридичними особами та фізичними осо-бами. Очевидно, що для реалізації вказаних дій залу-чаються «білокомірцеві» особи: 1) керівники підпри-ємств (генеральні директори, директори, заступники); 2) керівники та/або члени наглядових рад; 3) головні бухгалтери, фінансисти, керівники планових відділів; 4) юристи, адвокати; 5) охоронні агентства; 6) посадові особи державних органів, які видають ліцензії та вико-нують інші дозвільні та контрольні функції.Автор наводить види юридичних осіб, які залуча-ються до злочинних дій або на користь яких скерова-ні неправомірні угоди, підробка документів, зловжи-вання службовим становищем. Юридичні особи як суб’єкти доведення до банкрутства можуть бути таких видів: 1) за ознакою заснування: засновником є керів-ник підприємства, яке збанкрутувало; засновником є близькі родичі, члени сім’ї керівника підприєм-ства; засновником є підставні особи, які фактично не керують підприємством, а виконують прямі вказів-ки; засновником є злочинна організована група (осо-би, які мають судимості, тощо); 2) за видом діяльності (сферою, видом економічної діяльності): має тотожний вид економічної діяльності та виробництва; має інший вид діяльності, але пов’язаний з діяльністю підприєм-ства-банкрута (постачання тари, сировини, надання транспортних послуг тощо); юридична особа не має жодних виробничих зв’язків; 3) за строком існуван-ня: створена та має тривалу виробничу діяльність; час створення незначний (передує активним діям щодо доведення іншої юридичної особи до банкрутства); 4) за персональним складом керівництва: особа, яка має досвід у сфері діяльності підприємства, яке доводиться до неспроможності; особа, яка не має досвіду у сфері ді-яльності підприємства, яке доводиться до неспромож-ності; керівником підприємства є особа, яка є давнім партнером у ділових стосунках з керівником підпри-ємства-банкрута; керівником підприємства є один із засновників підприємства, що доводиться до банкрут-ства, який вийшов зі складу його засновників у ре-зультаті конфлікту з іншими (помста, намагання за-брати частку свого капіталу); 5) за характеристикою наслідків керування такою особою підприємствами: попередній досвід позитивний (в результаті погли-нання підприємств створена ефективна корпорація); попередній досвід негативний (всі юридичні особи, якими керувала ця уповноважена особа, закривалися), що свідчить про фіктивність з наміром у неправомір-ний спосіб заволодіти активами.

Offender and victim ‘journey-to-crime’: Motivational differences among stranger rapists

PurposeTo examine the variability in the ‘journey-to-crime’ and ‘journey-to-victimization’ in stranger rapes when disaggregated by offender motive. Using crime pattern theory as the theoretical framework, a series of pre-offense factors are used to explain these differences. MethodsTwo-step cluster analysis is first used to identify motive subtypes in 1009 stranger female rapes from a French police database. Kruskal-Wallis analyses then test for significant differences in distances traveled between the motivational groups. Finally, a series of negative binomial regressions are conducted to predict three distance measures: offender's residence to crime scene, victim's residence to crime scene, and victim's residence to offender's residence. ResultsThe average distances traveled for both offenders and victims to the crime scene, and between their residences, varied by motive. Findings from the regression models indicated that while offender motive is important, environmental characteristics and victim activity at the time of the assault also predict the distances traveled for both individuals. ConclusionsDetermining the most likely motive of the offender, in conjunction with other offense characteristics that would be known at the time of investigation, has the potential to provide law enforcement officials with an indication of the unknown offender's geographic behavior in active rape cases.

Offence characteristics: a comparison of lone, duo, and 3+ perpetrator robbery offences

ABSTRACT The current study investigated characteristics of robbery offences with a focus on lone versus multiple perpetrator crimes. The main aim was to outline differences between lone, duo, and 3+ perpetrator crimes. Police recorded crime data from West Midlands Police relating to 1574 personal robberies (including attempts) committed in Birmingham city centre (UK) were used in the analysis. Robbery offences were compared on victim and offender demographics and offence characteristics. The findings showed significant differences between the three group sizes (lone, duo, 3+ offenders) in victim and offender age; approach styles; victim control variables; weapon use; alcohol and violence; injuries; and carjacking. The findings of the current research can feed into developing policing strategies which take into account differences in group size.

Attempted and Completed Parricides in South Africa, 1990-2019.

Previous studies of parricide have been carried out predominantly in a Western context, in North America, Australia, and Western Europe. To date, only a handful of studies in parricide have been conducted in continental Africa. Previous studies in Ghana and Zimbabwe note that there may be culture-specific ways in which parricides may be shaped by the norms and cultural beliefs systems within those respective countries. Missing from the literature is an examination of parricides in South Africa. Using newspapers and court records, this article examines the offense and offender characteristics of parricides in South Africa. Our findings suggest that residential patterns of families may shape the offense characteristics found in South African parricides.

A multidimensional scalogram analysis of UK acid attacks: exploring the differences and similarities in offending characteristics

PurposeThis study aims to determine whether cases of acid attacks within the UK could be differentiated based on the offence characteristics and motivations.Design/methodology/approachThe study used a multi-dimensional scalogram analysis (MSA) to examine the similarities and differences between the behaviours that were acted out during the 30 cases.FindingsResults found a clear division amongst acid attack offenders through multiple variables, mainly pertaining to whether the attack was predicated and the motivation. This was found to be comparable with instrumental and expressive actions.Practical implicationsThe findings have potential to contribute to psychological theory to categorise and define acid attack offences. This would also greatly assist in suspect prioritisation and other aspects of police investigations.Originality/valueReports of acid attacks within the UK are rising. The motivations behind these offences are predominantly related to gang violence and acts of revenge. However, the current literature around acid attacks has largely focussed on the victim perspective, with little research around offenders and their actions.

Juvenile Sex Offenders in Turkey: A Study on Offense Characteristics, Risk Factors, and the Differences between Juvenile Sex Offenders and Other Juvenile Offenders

Based on a data set ( n = 920) derived from court files of adjudicated youth in one of the largest court districts in Turkey, this study represents the first systematic attempt to understand juvenile sex offenders (JSOs) and their offenses in this contemporary urban context. The study results show, first off, that sexual offending among Turkish youth has been increasing at a rate comparable to that of other Western societies. Secondly, the victims of the sex offenses examined in the study were mostly of the opposite sex (female), were typically younger than the offenders, and commonly were acquaintances (friends, family, partners). Thirdly, the results indicated that the JSOs were significantly different from other juvenile offenders, and in terms of most of the risk factors used in juvenile justice assessments they had an advantage over the other juvenile offenders. These results are discussed in light of findings reported in previous studies, along with considerations relating to the public policy implications and the research recommendations arising from the outcomes of this foundational research.

Juvenile Probation Officer Decision-Making in a Reforming State: Assessing the Application of Evidence-Based Principles

Whereas research has shown improvements in decision-making shortly after the introduction of risk/need assessment (RNA) tools, studies of routine practice nonetheless show shortcomings in RNA utilization. The current study uses an experimental survey-based vignette method to assess juvenile probation officer decision-making several years into a sustained evidence-based effort to implement an RNA in Pennsylvania. Consistent with the risk-need-responsivity (RNR) model, results show officer decisions correspond with clients’ risk and need. Moreover, adherence to the RNR model was found for clients across risk levels and offense categories. However, officers often relied on services for low-risk clients, and made decisions about interventions based on offense characteristics. Results suggest a discretionary form of decision-making, taking cues from within and beyond the RNR model, including from punitive and traditional welfare-oriented approaches. Findings highlight the challenges of producing RNR-consistent decision-making, even when using a sustained scientific RNA implementation strategy.

Effect of scaling back punishment on racial and ethnic disparities in criminal case outcomes

Research SummaryIn late 2014, California voters passed Proposition 47 that redefined a set of less serious felony drug and property offenses as misdemeanors. We examine how racial and ethnic disparities in criminal court dispositions in San Francisco change in the years before (2010–2014) and after (2015–2016) the passage of Proposition 47. We decompose disparities in court dispositions into components resulting from racial/ethnic differences in offense characteristics, involvement in the criminal justice system at the time of arrest, pretrial detention, criminal history, and the residual unexplained component. Before and after Proposition 47, case characteristics explain nearly all of the observable disparities in court dispositions between racial and ethnic groups. After the passage of Proposition 47, however, there is a narrowing of disparities in convictions and incarceration sentences that is driven by lesser weight placed on criminal history, active criminal justice status, and pretrial detention in effecting court dispositionsPolicy ImplicationsThe findings from this study suggest that policy reforms that scale back the severity of punishment for criminal history and active criminal justice status for less serious felony offenses may help narrow inter‐racial and inter‐ethnic inequalities in criminal court dispositions. Efforts to reduce racial and ethnic inequalities in mass incarceration in other states should consider reforms that reduce the weight that criminal history, pretrial detention, and active probation status has on criminal defendants’ eligibility for prison for less serious drug and property offenses.

Mapping the contours and limits of “irresistible inference”

Purpose In R v Anwoir [2008] EWCA Crim 1354, the English Court of Appeal held that, in money laundering prosecutions, the criminal provenance of property can be proved by showing that the circumstances in which the property was handled give rise to the irresistible inference that it can only have been derived from crime. The purpose of this paper is to analyse subsequent developments that have revealed the contours, and some of the limits, of proof by “irresistible inference”. Design/methodology/approach This paper reviews the reported cases in which an “irresistible inference” was drawn and identifies the features common to most of them. It then explores the limits of proof by “irresistible inference” by reference to the continuing relevance of predicate offences and the use of money laundering tools and techniques for non-laundering purposes. Findings Most of the cases in which an “irresistible inference” was drawn fall within a narrow compass of five categories. The breadth of the principle is constrained by the characteristics of the predicate offence, and its usefulness is limited in cases where the typologies of the predicate offence and the money laundering offence overlap significantly. Originality/value This paper may be useful to those involved in prosecuting or defending money laundering cases, as well as regulated persons assessing their money laundering risks and disclosure obligations.

International experience and priority directions of combating tax evasion, taxes and other mandatory payments in Ukraine

Introduction. The paper analyzes the legislation of some foreign countries on liability for crimes in the field of taxation. Purpose. It is established that, in general, developed countries have built reliable systems of measures to ensure tax revenues to the state budget and apply effective mechanisms to prosecute for violating the requirements of tax legislation. Results. It is determined that the legislation of developed foreign countries provides for different types of liability for tax evasion as a consequence of anti-fiscal behavior of the taxpayer: civil, administrative and criminal. The main destabilizing factors affecting the effectiveness of tax control are: insufficient unification of domestic tax legislation with international; lack of comprehensive methods of assessment and systematic monitoring of control and verification work of tax authorities; imperfect methodological support of procedural issues of tax control, low level of its automation; lack of approaches to harmonization of relations between participants of the control and verification process; institutional distortions and distortions regarding the tax culture, discipline and consciousness of taxpayers due to the growth of the tax burden and transaction costs in the system of tax administration. Conclusions. Domestic tax control is characterized by a tendency to converge with European requirements, but the pace of reform of the tax administration system in Ukraine is too slow. It is suggested that to overcome the problem, it is necessary to introduce (for some types of violations) the dependence of the size of financial sanctions on the characteristics of the tax offense, its value in monetary terms, the presence or absence of intent to evade taxation and so on. Finally, abandon the link between the size of financial sanctions and the economically outdated value of the tax-free minimum income; to provide financial responsibility of legal entities for conducting accounting and tax accounting with violations (the current domestic legislation provides insignificant fines for bringing to administrative responsibility only officials of the taxpayer-legal entity).

CRIMINALISTIC CHARACTERISTICS OF THE OFFENDER AND ITS IMPORTANCE IN SOLVING THE PROBLEMS OF CRIMINALISTIC PREVENTION

The article deals with the concepts and preventive value of the forensic characteristics of the personality of the offender. It is proved that the establishment in the process of investigation of the causes and conditions for the commission of criminal offenses is one of the most important areas for their prevention. The author claims that from a criminalistics point of view, the causes and conditions for committing crimes are divided into: a) circumstances related to the identity of the offender. Their attribution to the circumstances that contributed to the commission of the crime is due to the properties of the person guilty of the crime (unfavorable conditions for the formation of the person, the situation in the family, in the work collective, etc.) b) circumstances that exist independently of the person who committed the crime. Their attribution to the circumstances that contributed to the commission of the crime is inseparably connected with the establishment of the circumstances of the crime (flaws in the protection of property, proper accounting of inventory, etc.) If the second group of circumstances is objectively existing, then the first is closely related to the personality of the offender. Given the above, the article notes the importance for solving the tasks of forensic prevention of investigating the identity of the offender within the forensic characteristics of a particular criminal offense. The personality structure of the criminal in the article is considered as a system of relatively independent substructures of a social and psychological nature. The social substructure consists of the following elements: a person’s place in the system of social relations, his social roles, and areas of activity. It embraces its properties that reveal relationships in various areas of public life. The psychological properties in the structure of the suspect’s personality include: the orientation of the personality (its selective attitude to reality), which includes various mental properties, needs, interests, motives, feelings, likes and dislikes, ideals and worldview; human abilities, his mental capabilities; the dynamics of mental processes – temperament, character, style of behavior, in which the content and form of a person’s spiritual life is manifested, that is, a system of intellectual and emotional qualities; self-identity of the person exercising selfregulation; mental processes and conditions. The disclosure of precisely these elements in the structure of the criminal’s personality, in the opinion of the actor, allows us to solve the following problems: 1) the possible tactical impact on the suspect (accused), including with the aim of preventing him from committing crimes in the future 2) accumulation and analysis of forensic information on the circumstances that contributed to the commission of the crime.

The Association of Childhood Sexual Abuse With Non-Paraphilic and Paraphilic Sexual Behaviors Among Adolescents Who Have Sexually Offended

ABSTRACT A history of childhood sexual victimization (CSV) is one of the most commonly examined factors in research on male adolescent sexual offending. Although CSV has been extensively researched in relation to the onset and maintenance of adolescent sexual offending, few studies have investigated the association of CSV with domains of adolescent sexuality outside of sexual offending. Understanding how CSV may be associated with the non-paraphilic, and paraphilic, sexual behaviors of adolescent males who commit sexual offenses has important implications for promoting healthy sexuality among this population. In a sample of 162 male adolescents (M age = 15.2 years, SD = 1.3) adjudicated for a sexual offense, we tested the association of CSV with a range of non-paraphilic (e.g., age of first consensual sex) and paraphilic (e.g., use of paraphilic pornography) sexual behavior variables. The results indicated CSV was associated with greater engagement in risky non-paraphilic sexual behaviors, as well as paraphilic sexual behaviors. CSV was also associated with specific offense characteristics, replicating previous research findings. The current study is a first step toward understanding the broader sexual context of adolescents who commit sexual offenses.