Juvenile Sex Offenders Case Study

This experiment was conducted in the Netherlands in 2009 by Lisette A Hart-Kerkhoffs, Theo Doreleijers, Lucres Jansen, Anton van Wijk, and Ruud Bullens. Around 20-50 percent of all sex crimes are conducted by juveniles. This article states that juveniles who have sex offense related characteristics and the psychosexual development of subgroups who are sex offenders. The research shows that sexual offending by juveniles is often considered to be an experimental stage during sexual development. Studies have shown that many juvenile sex offenders had prior victims and also have similar behavior of an adult paraphilic sex offenders. According to the article “some juvenile sex offenders do seem to have paraphilic sexual impulses and behavior patterns and some adolescent sex offenders seem to have underlying deviant sexual arousal patterns or urges similar to that of adult sex offenders. Therefore, in the assessment of juvenile sex offenders it seems important to

The Global Assessment Instrument for Juvenile Sex Offenders (GAIJSO) was developed in order to estimate the severity of the sexual offense and to make an evaluation of the psychosexual development. The test consist of 25 items that were broken up into 2 scales: The offense scale had 15 items and the psychosexual development scale had 10 items. Each item contained a group of semi-structured questions and has several response options. An example would be, How does the juvenile feel about empathy. The answer choices would be Shows no, Some, Adequate empathy for the victim; Violence: No violence (including verbal aggression), Used 'enough' violence (including verbal aggression) to take control over the victim, Used excessive violence to take control over the victim. The two domains of concern of the GAIJSO had six concern options: no, some, high, very high, unknown and