AN EVALUATION OF JUVENILE SEXUAL OFFENDER TREATMENT - RESEARCH NOTE

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.