Adolescent self-image as a mediator between childhood maltreatment and adult sexual offending
Amy Reckdenwald, Christina Mancini, Eric Beauregard
Highlights • Self-image is an important intervening mechanism in the abuse-offending link • Self-image partially mediates the relationship between abuse and sex offending • 42.8% of the total abuse-offending effect is explained by poor self-image
Linking early ADHD to adolescent and early adult outcomes among African Americans
Monic P. Behnken, W. Todd Abraham, Carolyn E. Cutrona, Daniel W. Russell, Ronald L. Simons, Frederick X. Gibbons
Highlights • ADHD predicted exclusionary school discipline and juvenile arrest in adolescence. • ADHD predicted both arrests and lower educational attainment in young adulthood. • Lack of ADHD diagnosis predicted greater post-high-school education initiation. • Higher levels of parenting quality corresponded with better adult outcomes. • Higher levels of childhood poverty corresponded with worse adult outcomes.
Special issue: Sex Offenders and Sex Offenses
Sex offending: A criminological perspective
Patrick Lussier, Eric Beauregard
Community re-entry and the path toward desistance: A quasi-experimental longitudinal study of dynamic factors and community risk management of adult sex offenders
Patrick Lussier, Carmen L.Z. Gress
Highlights • The study describes dynamic factors of adult male sex offenders. • Dynamic risk factors are associated with recidivism upon re-entry • Negative social influences and poor cooperation are associated with poor outcomes • Type of community risk management can moderate the impact of dynamic factors
Consistency in crime site selection: An investigation of crime sites used by serial sex offenders across crime series
Nadine Deslauriers-Varin, Eric Beauregard
Highlights • Identification of recurrent crime sites across sex crime series. • Limited diversity of victim encounter and release sites used by serial offenders. • Associations between encounter sites and offenders’ series progression. • Prevalence of encounter sites identified varies across offenders’ crime series. • Encounter sites more likely to be selected by offenders having longer crime series.
The Successful Onset of Sex Offending: Determining the Correlates of Actual and Official Onset of Sex Offending
Jeffrey Mathesius, Patrick Lussier
Highlights • Investigated actual onset, official onset and cost avoidance of adult sex offenders. • Most initiate in early adulthood but typically not arrested until late adulthood. • Wide variability in cost avoidance exists across sex offenders. • The correlates of actual age of onset are distinct from official age of onset. • Official onset occurs later for offenders more skilled at avoiding costs.
The juvenile sex offender: The effect of employment on offending
Chantal van den Berg, Catrien Bijleveld, Jan Hendriks, Irma Mooi-Reci
Highlights • Juvenile sex offenders (JSO) enter the labor market at relatively young ages • The JSO have short employment contracts interrupted by spells of unemployment. • Only regular employment is associated with a significant decline in offending. • Group offenders and peer abusers benefit from employment, child abusers do not. • Guidance towards employment may be effective in risk reduction for JSO.
The adolescence-adulthood transition and Robins’s continuity paradox: Criminal career patterns of juvenile and adult sex offenders in a prospective longitudinal birth cohort study
Patrick Lussier, Arjan Blokland
Highlights • Juvenile and adult sex offending are two distinct phenomenon. • Vast majority of juvenile sex offenders do not become adult sex offenders. • Vast majority of adult sex offenders were not juvenile sex offenders. • Heterogeneity is found in the criminal career outcomes of juvenile sex offenders. • Two patterns of adult-onset sex offending were found.
The long term recidivism risk of young sexual offenders in England and Wales– enduring risk or redemption?
Claire Hargreaves, Brian Francis
Highlights • We examine the long-term sexual recidivism risk of juvenile sex offenders. • At the end of the 35 yr follow-up 13% of sex offenders had a sexual re-conviction. • Sex offenders’ hazard converges with the never-convicted after 17 years. • The study has implications for the registration periods of juvenile sex offenders.
Community characteristics and child sexual assault: Social disorganization and age
Elizabeth Ehrhardt Mustaine, Richard Tewksbury, Lin Huff-Corzine, Jay Corzine, Hollianne Marshall
Highlights • We find that the sources of sexual assault differ between preteen and teen victims. • More registered sex offenders in a community increases only teen sexual assault. • Social disorganization adds moderately to explaining preteen & teen sexual assault.
Considering specialization/versatility as an unintended collateral consequence of SORN
Wesley G. Jennings, Kristen M. Zgoba, Christopher M. Donner, Brandy B. Henderson, Richard Tewksbury
Highlights • Specialization thresholds illustrated that sex offenders were diverse. • Sex offenders who were released post-SORN were more specialized. • Post-SORN sex offenders’ specialization was a function of drug offenses.
To what extent does civil commitment reduce sexual recidivism? Estimating the selective incapacitation effects in Minnesota
Grant Duwe
Highlights • Study examined 105 sex offenders civilly committed between 2004 and 2006. • MnSOST-3 used to estimate effects of civil commitment on sex offense recidivism. • Estimated four-year sexual recidivism rate was 9 percent for civil commits. • Civil commitment reduced four-year sexual recidivism rate by 12 percent. • Estimated lifetime sexual recidivism rate was 28 percent.
Employing mixed methods to explore motivational patterns of repeat sex offenders
Joan A. Reid, Eric Beauregard, Karla M. Fedina, Emily N. Frith
Highlights • Identified two motivational constructs underlying sex offenses by repeat offenders • One motivation driven by desire for sexual gratification and one by anger/aggression • Five types of sex offenders emerged from two underlying motivations driving offenses • Stability in motivation observed across sex offenses committed by same offender • Proportional influence of offense/victim specifics did not vary by type of motivation
No body, no crime? The role of forensic awareness in avoiding police detection in cases of sexual homicide
Eric Beauregard, Melissa Martineau
Highlights • Victim characteristics are related to sexual murderers’ police detection • Use of precautions does not increase the offender’s chance of avoiding detection; • Offenders’ modus operandi help to delay the discovery of the victim • Offenders exhibit rational thinking in order to delay body recovery; • Number of days until body recovery is a better measure of detection avoidance
Notes on a (sex crime) scandal: The impact of media coverage of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church on public opinion
Christina Mancini, Ryan T. Shields
Highlights • Media exposure detailing sexual abuse affects views about the Catholic Church. • Catholics who followed the coverage were more confident in the Church. • Catholics who viewed the coverage as biased expressed more positive views about the Church. • Non-Catholics who perceived media bias believed the Church could prevent sex crime. • Religiosity mediated media exposure effects among Catholics.
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