Perspectives on treatment outcome in adolescent sexual offending: A study of a community-based treatment programme

Treatment programmes for adolescents who commit sexual offences: Dropout and recidivism

“…The antisocial/impulsive group made up half of the sample of adolescent sexual offenders and may well share more characteristics with non-sexually abusing adolescents than with the other three groups. However, one additional problem is that all of the studies have been carried out in North America, bar the Sheridan et al (1998) study, which itself suffers from a very short follow-up period and no official recidivism records.…”

“…It is broadly agreed that adolescents make up at least one third of the sexually abusive population in the USA (Sheridan et al, 1998). Two British victim-based studies support this conclusion.…”

“…Treatment of sexually offending behaviour when still in adolescence is desirable, as patterns of behaviour may be less entrenched and more amenable to change (Sheridan et al, 1998). Specialist treatment programmes have increasingly been set up for this group, with the aim of curtailing the spread of abuse to future generations.…”

Aspects of young sex abusers—a review of the literature concerning young sex abusers (1996–2004)

“…Juvenile non-sex offenders, child sexual offenders and adolescent rapists were all found to be significantly more likely to be involved in sexual assaults than was the general male population in the United States. Sheridan et al (1998) conducted interviews with clinicians and 22 participants who had completed treatment with North Side Inter-Agency Project (NIAP), a community based treatment programme for adolescent sexual abusers. Clinicians reported that a majority of adolescents completed all steps of the programme and the majority of families had been highly supportive of the adolescents' participation in treatment.…”