Adolescent sexual offenders have recently been the focus of a number of research studies that have indicated that sexual offending often begins in adolescence and that prior sexual abuse of this group is common. This study examined the relationship between prior victimization and subsequent sexual abuse of others. The variables of gender, age, relationship of victim and offender, and sexual behaviors were compared by gathering information from a sample of adolescent sexual offenders with respect to their prior victimization and their subsequent perpetration. It was hypothesized that adolescent sexual offenders were more likely to repeat the behaviors they had experienced as victims and that the characteristics of victims were more likely to be reflective of their own victim experiences. The results supported the hypotheses. Implications for future research and clinical practice were discussed

A growing body of research now suggests that a substantial number of criminal offenders display neuropsychological deficits, especially frontal-executive dysfunctions. The present study investigated the possibility of similar deficits by comparing the performance of 60 adolescent sex offenders court-ordered to a residential treatment facility with the performance of 60 nonsexual delinquent offenders matched on several pertinent sociodemographic characteristics and scores on four neuropsychological tests: (1) the Trail Making Test, (2) the Controlled Oral Word Association test of the Multilingual Aphasia Examination, (3) the Tower of London, and (4) the Wisconsin Card-sorting Test. Analysis indicated a pattern of frontal-executive dysfunction in a subset of both groups of offenders; this pattern has both theoretical and treatment implications.

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Although the vast majority of Americans who are physically active are likely to extol its many physical, psychological, and social values, research indicates that approximately fifty percent of individuals who start a formal physical activity program will drop out in six months or less. The present study employed stepwise discriminant analytical techniques in an attempt to distinguish starters from nonstarters in an innovative employee physical activity incentive program. The results indicated that a combination of health beliefs and lifestyle characteristics, health locus of control expectancies, and physiological characteristics accurately discriminated 81.7% of the starters and nonstarters. It was concluded that physical activity programs need to be designed, implemented, and marketed in such a manner as to attract individuals who are sedentary, smoke, are unable to cope with home-mediated stress, have an external health locus of control expectancy, and/or have a high cardiovascular disease-risk factor profile.