Discriminant factors for adolescent sexual offending: On the usefulness of considering both victim age and sibling incest |
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| Institution: | 1. Psychology Department, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, C.P. 500, Trois-Rivières, Quebec, Canada, G9A 5H7;2. Research Center, Institut Philippe-Pinel de Montréal, Quebec, Canada;3. International Center for Comparative Criminology, Université de Montréal, Quebec, Canada;1. Fairleigh Dickinson University, School of Psychology (T-WH1-01), Metropolitan Campus, 1000 River Road, Teaneck, NJ 07666, USA;2. Bentley University, Department of Mathematical Sciences, 175 Forest Street, Waltham, MA 02452, USA;3. Massachusetts General Hospital, Department of Surgery, 55 Fruit Street, Boston, MA 02114, USA;4. Justice Resource Institute, 160 Gould Street, Suite 300, Needham, MA 02494, USA;5. William James College, 1 Wells Avenue, Newton, MA 02459, USA;1. The Ohio State University College of Social Work, 325 Stillman Hall, 1947 N College Rd, Columbus, OH 43210, United States;2. The Center for Family Safety and Healing, Nationwide Children’s Hospital, 655 East Livingston Avenue, Columbus, OH 43205, United States;3. Nationwide Children’s Hospital, 700 Children''s Drive, Columbus, OH 43205, United States;4. The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Nationwide Children’s Hospital, 700 Children''s Drive, Columbus, OH 43205, United States;1. Paul Baerwald School of Social Work and Social Welfare, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Mt Scopus, Jerusalem 9190501, Israel;2. Haruv Institute, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Mt Scopus, Jerusalem 9765418, Israel;3. Bob Shapell School of Social Work, Tel Aviv University, Israel |
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| Abstract: | Understanding the pathways and circumstances of juvenile sexual offending is of utmost importance. However, juvenile sexual offenders (JSO) represent an especially diverse group of individuals, and several categorizations have been proposed to obtain more homogeneous subgroups. Victim age-based and family relation-based categorizations are particularly promising because they seem theoretically and clinically relevant. Empirical results however are still inconsistent, and most studies have not considered these two dimensions jointly. The first goal of this study was to further examine the value of subgrouping JSO according to the age of their victim. A second goal was to determine the supplementary value, if any, of considering sibling incest. Based on a sample of 351 male JSO, it was first confirmed that sexual abuse of children was more strongly related to asociality (social skill deficits) than sexual abuse of peers, the latter being more closely associated with antisociality (general delinquency). The relevance of considering mixed-type JSO (with both child and peer victims) separately was also confirmed. More importantly, multivariate statistical analyses demonstrated that adding sibling incest to the equation was useful. JSO of intra-familial child were significantly more likely to have been victimized during their own childhood compared to JSO with extra-familial victims. Nevertheless, adolescents who had committed sibling incest obtained middle ground results on most variables (except for crime severity), suggesting that they constitute a distinct but not extreme, subgroup. This study confirmed the utility of using both the age and the family relation with the victim in characterizing juvenile sexual offending. |
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| Keywords: | Juvenile sexual offenders Discriminant factors Victim age Sibling incest Blood relative |
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