Adolescent sexual offending. Prevalence, risk factors and outcome.
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Summary, in English
Three different samples were used for this thesis. A sample of Norwegian and
Swedish female and male high school students (more than 9,000) participated in a population based study and responded to a number of items concerning sexual interests and behaviours, conduct problems, health, peer and parental variables. Five percent of male and one percent of female students reported sexually coercive behaviour defined as penetrative sexual behaviours and masturbation.
Risk factors in particular associated with sexual coercion were identified by contrasting the sexually coercive youth with those who reported non-sexual conduct problems as well as with controls. A number of general risk factors as well as sexuality specific risk factors were identified among sexually coercive females as males. The male sample was used to further explore the link between being sexually abused and being sexually abusive. The association was confirmed also when controlling for other potential influencing factors.
The second sample was used to examine the one-year incidence of all reports to Social Services in Sweden on sexually offending adolescents. The total incidence rate was .06% among the 12-17 year old male population. Comparing the findings of self-reports and cases reported to authorities it could be concluded that the underestimation of adolescent female and male sexual offending is substantial.
A third sample of clinically assessed sexually offending male adolescents (M=15 years) was used for a follow up study. They were on average 21 years old by follow up, six years after assessment. One fifth reported sexually reoffending since the assessment. Risk assessments carried out in connection with the index offence were good in identifying those at high risk of sexually reoffending. One third of the males of the sample reported learning disabilities or neuropsychiatric disorders, and this was particularly prevalent among those who sexually reoffended. In addition
more than half of the males had been convicted of a non-sexual crime by the time of follow up.
Avdelning/ar
Publiceringsår
2009
Språk
Engelska
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Faculty of Medicine Doctoral Dissertation Series
Volym
2009:82
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Dokumenttyp
Doktorsavhandling
Förlag
Lund University
Ämne
- Psychiatry
Nyckelord
- sexually offending adolescents
- sexual coercion
- prevalence
- risk factors
- sexual reoffending
- assessment
Status
Published
Handledare
- Carl Göran Svedin
- Niklas Långström
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 1652-8220
- ISBN: 978-91-86253-70-7
Försvarsdatum
18 september 2009
Försvarstid
13:00
Försvarsplats
Kulturens Auditorium, Lund
Opponent
- Anthony Beech (Professor)