1. The Long Process of Treating Sex Offenders
Often, family members, treatment personnel, and the justice system, are likely to perceive juvenile sexual offenses as sexual experimentation or curiosity, enabling underreporting of offenses (Kalogerakis, 1992). It seems to be a constant debate distinguishing normal acceptable sexual behaviors and experimentation/exploration, in comparison to victimization (Kalogerakis, 1992). ... Female juvenile offenders account for less that 5 percent of reported sexual offenses, and very little information is known on this population, due to limited sample sizes, and the overall underestimating, that fe...
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