AN EVALUATION OF JUVENILE SEXUAL OFFENDER TREATMENT - RESEARCH NOTE

Citation
Sp. Lab et al., AN EVALUATION OF JUVENILE SEXUAL OFFENDER TREATMENT - RESEARCH NOTE, Crime and delinquency, 39(4), 1993, pp. 543-553
Citations number
20
Categorie Soggetti
Criminology & Penology
Journal title
ISSN journal
00111287
Volume
39
Issue
4
Year of publication
1993
Pages
543 - 553
Database
ISI
SICI code
0011-1287(1993)39:4<543:AEOJSO>2.0.ZU;2-0
Abstract
Although interest in the treatment of juvenile sexual offenders has in creased significantly in recent years, there are still few programs sp ecifically geared toward these youths and few of the existing programs have been evaluated. This article presents an evaluation of one court -based program. The results show that youths handled in the program fa re no better than youths processed through normal, nonoffense specific programming. These results suggest that the growth of interventions h as proceeded without adequate knowledge of how to identify at-risk you ths, the causes of the behavior, and the most appropriate treatment fo r juvenile sexual offending.