Titre : | Assessing risk in adolescent sexual offenders: recommendations for clinical practice (2009) |
Auteurs : | Micheal J VITACCO, Auteur ; Michael F. CALDWELL, Auteur ; Nancy L RYBA, Auteur ; Alvin MALESKY, Auteur ; Samantha J KURUS, Auteur |
Type de document : | Article : document électronique |
Dans : | Behavioral Sciences & the Law (Vol. 27 - N° 6, November-December 2009) |
Article en page(s) : | pp. 929-940 |
Langues: | Anglais |
Index. décimale : | VS.33 (Violence sexuelle agie chez l'adolescent et l'enfant) |
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Résumé : | Accurately predicting the likelihood that an adolescent with a sex offense history will reoffend is a precarious task that carries with it the potential for extreme consequences for the adolescent offender (e.g., lifelong public registration). Recently implemented laws regarding adolescent sex offenders are dramatically upstream of current knowledge. Several of these laws were ostensibly based on the misassumption that clinicians could accurately identify adolescents at the greatest risk for sexual recidivism. However, predicting which adolescents are at greatest risk to sexually recidivate is severely constrained by limited knowledge about which predictors are most accurately linked to sexual recidivism and uncertainty over how to best make use of instruments designed to predict recidivism. This paper reviews research on risk assessment and provides a set of recommendations for conducting risk assessments with adolescent sex offenders. [Résumé d'éditeur] |
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Plan de l'article :
* Defining and recognizing the problem of adolescent sex offenders * Can clincians employing a general risk assessment approach predict sexual recidivism * Can clinicians employing specialized instruments predict sexual recidivism ? * Guidelines for conducting risk assessments for sexual recidivism in youth * Future directions * Conclusions * References |
Article disponible : | CRIAVS Franche-Comté/ERIOS |
Type de document CRIAVS : | Article |