Adolescent Sex Offenses
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Interest in the area of sexual abuse and assault has significantly increased over the past two decades. Issues of victimology are now serious clinical and research topics, and one of the results has been the expanding focus on the sex offender. Most of the research on sex offenses has focused on the adult offender, and consequently, juvenile sex offenses have largely remained unexamined. Historically, the public has been caught up in the thinking that sexual delinquency is "Just experimentation," or, "Boys will be boys." As a result, recognition of the need for service and research in juvenile sexual offenses has been much slower to gain the recognition and attention the field requires. However, because youths at risk for sexually assaultive behavior frequently continue such antisocial behavior into adulthood, the necessity for early, effective clinical intervention and research cannot be overstated. An accurate number of adolescent sex offenses is not available, although various sources show that adolescent males account for a range of 21 to 30 percent of rape, according to a 1979 National Crime Survey and the Uniform Crime Report of 1980 (National Center for the Prevention and Control of Rape, 1985, p. 164). The research monograph from the NCPCR (1985) points out that juvenile sexual offending behavior often reflects the early stages of an ongoing pattern of sexual offense into adulthood (p. 164). In addition, evidence of escalation from nonviolent sex crime du
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al offending, Hunter & Becker (1994) report that a survey of the literature turned up only one study evaluating the frequency of juveniles' use of sexual erotica (or the effect that sexual erotica may have on juveniles) (p. 138).
Becker & Stein (1991) investigated the number of sexual offenders who use sexual erotica, the types of sexually explicit materials most often used, and the relationship between the use of erotica, use of alcohol and/or drugs, history of victimization, and the number of victims per offender (cited in Hunter & Becker, 1994, p. 138). Although 74 percent of the adolescent sex offenders reported that the erotica increased their arousal, there was no correlation between use of erotica and number of sexual abuse victims. Likewise, although 23 percent of the offenders reported that substance use increased their arousal, "no statistically significant relationship was found between drug usage and number, age, or sex of victim" (Becker & Stein, 1991, cited in Hunter & Becker, 1994, p. 138). It is interesting to note that pornography and substance use had either no effect, or a diminishing effect, on a percentage of the offenders. As for the 74 percent and 23 percent who were affected by erotica and substance us
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