iolent models (i.e., older youths or adult role models) during childhood increases the risk of a youth becoming sexually assaultive (p. 139). Empirical support has been found for the association between such exposure and "both the likelihood of becoming a perpetrator and the level of severity of psychosexual disturbance" (Hunter & Becker, 1994, p. 139). Smith (1988) found that more serious sexual offenses were committed by juvenile sex offenders who had another sex offender in the extended family and who had experienced physical and sexual abuse and the abuse of another family member (cited in Hunter & Becker, 1994, p. 139). Fagan & Wexler (1988) found that "juvenile sex offenders were more likely than other violent juvenile offenders (nonsex perpetrators) to come from families with spousal violence, child abuse
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