The familial concentration and transmission of crime. Marshall (Eds.), The juvenile sex offender (pp. The effects of child sexual abuse and the family environment. New York: General Learning Press.īarbaree, H. Social learning theory and adolescent cigarette smoking. International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, 7, 89–103. Complications, consent, and cognitions in sex between children and adults. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.Ībel, G. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. Juvenile sex offenders who themselves have been the victim of intra-familial abuse, or who have a sibling that has suffered intra-familial abuse, have an increased risk of committing intra-familial sexual abuse. Juvenile sex offenders either from families where intra-familial abuse has occurred or who have a father with a history of sexual abuse against children occurring during their childhood have an increased risk of themselves abusing children, rather than peers. Our findings offer most support for a social learning theory of sexual abuse. Specifically we tested hypotheses relating to the mechanisms linking offender and victim status in cases of sexual abuse within families, i.e. We examined their and their parents’ history of sexual abuse. This chapter provides an overview of research carried out on 185 juvenile male sex offenders who received treatment in a residential center.

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