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Recent Research Related to Juvenile Sex Offending: Findings and Directions for Further Research

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Serious scholarly inquiry into juvenile sex offending represents a relatively new field, dating from the mid 1940s. During the next 4 decades, a mere handful of articles exploring aspects of juvenile sex offending were added to the available literature. By the 1980s, however, the literature began to increase rapidly, a trend that continues today. The purpose of this article is a focused review of the juvenile sex offender literature cited in PubMed over the last 5 years (2009-2013). The authors have chosen studies that will bring readers up to date on research they believe impacts our current understanding of best practices in the management of juvenile sex offending. For convenience, our review is organized into topical categories including research into characteristics and typologies of juvenile sex offenders, risk assessment and recidivism, assessment and treatment, the ongoing debate about mandatory registration of sex offenders as it applies to juveniles, and other thought provoking studies that do not fit neatly into the aforementioned categories. The studies included contain findings that both reinforce and challenge currently held notions about best practices concerning treatment and public policy, suggesting that our knowledge of the field continues to evolve in important ways.

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H. Martin Malin, Fabian M. Saleh and Albert J. Grudzinskas, Jr., declare that they have no conflict of interest.

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  1. Professor of Clinical Sexology, Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality, 1523 Franklin Street, San Francisco, CA, 94109, USA

    H. Martin Malin

  2. Sexual Violence Prevention & Risk Management Program, BIDMC, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02115, USA

    Fabian M. Saleh

  3. Department of Psychiatry, University of Massachusetts Medical School, 55 Lake Avenue North, WSH 8C-23, Worcester, MA, 01655, USA

    Albert J. Grudzinskas

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Malin, H.M., Saleh, F.M. & Grudzinskas, A.J. Recent Research Related to Juvenile Sex Offending: Findings and Directions for Further Research. Curr Psychiatry Rep 16, 440 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11920-014-0440-5

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