Socu 426 - Annotated Bibliography: Juvenile Sex offenders

Annotated Bibliography: Juvenile Sex Offenders

SOCU 426

August 20, 2011

Knopp, F.H., (1985) Youthful Sex Offender- The Rationale and Goals of Early Intervention. Prison Research Education Action Project.

The author, Fay Honey Knopp began the Safer Society Program and Press in the early 1980s. This program was dedicated to research and advocacy for crime prevention with special emphasis on treatment for sexual offenders. Various studies of both incarcerated and nonincarcerated offenders showed high signs of the early onset of deviant sexual behavior and potential offense related to it. From these findings, therapist agreed that early intervention to control juvenile sex offenders was necessary. Other rationales for early intervention include; ease of disrupting and preventing deviant sexual behaviors in juveniles, their openness to learning new skills, and the inexpensiveness of early intervention compared to institutional treatment. This booklet discusses eight issues in evaluating sexually abusive adolescents in order to see if a juvenile's sexual behavior is 'normal' or part of a pattern of sexually aggressive behavior. It also discusses the criteria for assessing risk, the goals and treatment methods for juvenile sex offenders, and recommendations for State planning to address juvenile sex offenses.

Prentky, Robert PhD, Righthand, Sue Ph.D., (2003) Juvenile Sex Offender Assessment Protocol-II (J-SOAP-II) Manual. Juvenile Justice Clearinghouse/NCJRS.

Robert A. Prentky, Ph.D., is the Director of Clinical and Forensic Services at the Joseph J. Peters Institute in Philadelphia. Sue Righthand, PhD, is a licensed psychologist in private practice in Rockland, Maine, and holds an adjunct faculty position in the University of Main's Department of Psychology.

This manual provides a brief review of the development of the Juvenile Sex Offender Assessment Protocol-II or J-SOAP-II. It gives a description of the validation procedures that have been used. This checklist was designed to aid in the review of risk factors that have been found in many studies as being associated with sexual and criminal offending by male juveniles 12- to 18-years-old.

Schram, D.D, Milloy, C.D., Rowe, W.E. (1991). Juvenile Sex Offenders: A Follow-Up Study of Reoffense Behavior. Washington State Institute for Public Policy.

There was a study taken on 197 male juvenile sex offenders. The study included Information on the characteristics of juvenile sex offenders, their offenses, their victims, their involvement in treatment, their prognosis, and their juvenile re-offending behavior during a 5-year follow-up period. In the current study, offense data was collected for both new juvenile and adult arrests and convictions. Through this data, 12.2 percent of offenders were arrested for new sex offenses during the