Juvenile Sex OffendersJuvenile sex offenders (JSO) are youths that commit a sex offense. The age range is from puberty to legal adult (age of majority). The offense can be against a person of any age if it is against the victim's will, without consent, or in an aggressive or threatening manner. The current politically correct term is "Adolescent Responsible for Sexual Offense". In some states, e.g. South Carolina, even pre-pubescent children can be classified as sex offender. From Jeffrey Koenigsberg, who has been working with this population extensively and for years, says, "Adult sexual offending, according to recent empirically researched and validated studies, is not related nor is it comparable to adolescents that have engaged in sexually harmful behavior. Note that even the terminology is different. Adults who offend sexually reoffend at approximately 95% (regardless of receiving treatment) and they are referred to as pedophiles or sex offenders. Adolescents that have a history of sexually harmful behaviors that receive treatment have a recidivism rate of less than 4%. The majority of adolescents that engage in sexually harmful behaviors come from disrupted family systems, they have been the victims of sexual abuse, someone in the family has been sexually victimized and there has been a history of domestic violence and/or substance abuse in the home. This indicates that the sexually harmful behaviors have an ecological etiology and are developmental in nature."--Jeffrey Koenigsberg, LMSW, CJSOC Therapsit/ Clinical Social Work C.A.R.E. Unit New Mexico Behavioral Health Institute 3695 Hot Springs Blvd. Las Vegas, NM 87701 Characteristics of Juvenile Sex Offenders
A horse storyThis is a story shared by Mark Lytle at Head, Heart, Hands, and Horses in Marion, NC. Hope we can do it justice.Not sure of the exact circumstances but they were working with a group of adjudicated youths. As we understand the story, they figured a lot of this out after the fact. There was a boy confined to a wheelchair. The equestrian assisted psychotherapy team was working with the adjudicated youths. One of the boys, we will call him Tom, would approach the boy in the wheelchair unnoticed by the treatment team. We will call this boy, Billy. One of the horses started imposing himself between the two boys when Tom would try to approach Billy. Tom kept it up, and the horse got more and more aggressive about keeping Tom away from Billy. All of a sudden, the horse had knocked Tom down and was baring his teeth right in Tom's face, pining him to the ground. They pieced the story together from here. It turned out Tom was a juvenile sexual offender and his method of operation was to "volunteer" to take wheelchair-confined boys to the bathroom where he would molest them. What Tom was doing that the horse intervened was that when Tom approached Billy, he would escalate his touching, getting a little more "friendlier" each time. The first time, just touching Billy's chair. The next time, touching Billy's shoulder, etc. The team's interpretation was that the horse was trying to protect Billy from the sexual predator. Risk FactorsHere are some of the risk factors that have been identified in creating juvenile sexual offenders:
TreatmentAt the outset, there are four basics involved in the treatment of Juvenile Sex Offenders:
Treatment usually involves both group and individual therapy. In group therapy other offenders are good at recognizing lies and deceits (hmm, kind of like horses). This is similar to addicts recognizing the ploys of other addicts and the best addiction counselors are those that are recovering addicts. Juvenile Sex Offenders are taught social skills and what society and the law expect and demand. Cognitive distortions are addressed and there usually are some "hum dingers" of deranged thinking (we wax non-professional here). Anger management, communication skills, and listening skills are taught. Problem solving skills are enhanced.--At least these are the goals of therapy. |
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