Strategic Behavior in Adolescent Sexual Offenses Against Children: Linking Modus Operandi to Sexual Behaviors

Leclerc, Benoît; Tremblay, Pierre

doi:10.1177/107906320701900104

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“…These interpretations are congruent with findings showing that planning is an important step, either implicitly or explicitly, in the offense process of child molesters (Proulx, Perreault, & Ouimet, 1999;Ward et al, 1995). This planning often involves an assessment of victim vulnerability and chance of apprehension (Leclerc & Tremblay, 2007). Furthermore, the notion of offenders "grooming" children as a way of normalizing or legitimizing sexual contact (Young, 1997) also corroborates the assertion that the element of premeditation is an important factor within the offending strategy of sexual abusers of children.…”

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Reactions to Resistance: The Role of Contextual Factors in Sex Offending

Balemba¹,

Beauregard

2012

Violence Vict

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Upon encountering victim resistance during the commission of a sexual assault, an offender makes a decision as to how to react to the resistance via the use of varying degrees of coercive or noncoercive tactics. Exhaustive chi-squared automatic interaction detection (CHAID) analyses were performed on a sample of 369 criminal events to detect the significant situational and crime-specific factors, the pertinent interactions between these factors, and how these affect an offender’s reaction to victim resistance depending on whether the victim is a child or an adult. Findings show that multiple interactions do occur and, moreover, factors affecting the offender’s reaction to victim resistance are very different depending on whether the victim is a child or an adult. Planning and preparation variables, such as the offender’s attack strategy, were found to be significant in the child victim model, whereas reactive variables, such as the type of victim resistance, were found to be significant in the adult victim model. The findings lend support to the social interactionist perspective and the importance of victim–offender dynamics.

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Section: Victim Characteristics and Their Impact On Victim-offender Dsupporting

confidence: 74%

Reactions to Resistance: The Role of Contextual Factors in Sex Offending

Balemba¹,

Beauregard

2012

Violence Vict

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“…At the end of this spectrum, we found that about one out of ten offenders in this sample had at least 300 events on average against the same victim. Such an event-to-victim ratio, especially in the context of child sexual abuse, requires some level of planning, commitment, time, and sometimes money investment to have illicit sexual contact but also avoid suspicion and detection (Leclerc, Proulx, & McKibben, 2005;Leclerc & Tremblay, 2007). As such, low productive offenders may be driven more by immediate sexual gratifications, whereas high productive ones by securing an opportunity providing regular sexual gratifications.…”

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“…This may speak about the importance for child molesters, whose objective is to repeatedly take advantage of the same victim, to gain the trust of the family environment but also the child to facilitate victim participation (e.g., Leclerc & Tremblay, 2007) and this might be more easily done for individuals presenting a more conventional background. Hence, under some circumstances, the offender's conventional background and social class may play in his favour and increase his productivity (see also, Charest & Tremblay, 2009).…”

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Patterns of criminal achievement in sexual offending: Unravelling the “successful” sex offender

Lussier

Bouchard

Beauregard

2011

Journal of Criminal Justice

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Purpose: The current study examines significant variations in criminal achievement across sex offenders. To examine the "successful" sex offender, the study proposes a concept of achievement in sexual offending defined as the ability to maximize the payoffs of a crime opportunity while minimizing the costs. Methods: The study is based on a sample of convicted adult male sex offenders using retrospective longitudinal data. Results: The study findings show a wide variation in criminal achievement, a variation that is not correlated with the severity of sentences meted out or the actuarial risk scores obtained by these offenders. Those offenders who specialize in sex crimes were shown to be the most productive and least detected offenders. Two types of successful offenders emerge, the first relying on his conventional background in targeting a victim that can be repeatedly abused for a long period without detection. The second is a younger offender that is successful in the sense of being able to complete aggressions on multiple victims. Conclusions: Results suggest that the successful sex offender is not "detected" once he enters the criminal justice system, nor is he handled in a way that may deter him from sexually reoffending in the future.REFERENCE: Lussier, P., Bouchard, M. & Beauregard, E. (2011). Patterns of criminal achievement in sexual offending: Unravelling the "successful" sex offender. Journal of Criminal Justice, 39,[433][434][435][436][437][438][439][440][441][442][443][444] Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to P. Lussier, Pavillon Charles-De Koninck, 1030, ave. des Sciences-Humaines, Quebec, Quebec G1V 0A6, Canada. Tel.: +1 418 656 2131x5978. E-mail address: patrick.lussier@svs.ulaval.ca. PATTERNS OF CRIMINAL ACHIEVEMENT IN SEXUAL OFFENDING 2Patterns of criminal achievement in sexual offending: Unravelling the "successful" sex offender After more than 50 years of research on sexual recidivism, researchers have been unable to provide a formal evidence-based explanation of the criminal activity of sexual offenders. The risk factor approach taken and pursued over the years have restrained possibilities of understanding the criminal career dynamics of individuals committing sex offences and recent empirical studies have emphasized the need to correct this (e.g., Amirault & Lussier, 2011; Lussier & Davies, in press;Lussier, Tzoumakis, Cale, & Amirault, 2010). In that regard, this study is a departure from past research on this issue. The aim is not to identify a predictive model of sexual recidivism but rather to understand what is being predicted and who is being identified in the process. Sexual recidivism or in more technical terms, sexual rearrest and sexual reconviction, have become the gold standard measures to determine risk. While researchers have acknowledged that "official recidivism" carries an important limitation (i.e., it measures official reoffending or the likelihood or being caught, again), it has served to establish the risk of recidivism, the prevalen...

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“…It can necessitate greater control of the victim, which might be achieved through increased physical aggression (Hazelwood & Warren, 2000). For example, with adolescent child abusers, Leclerc and Tremblay (2007) found use of violence to be associated with the increasing intrusiveness of the sexual behavior desired by the adolescent. These research findings suggest that both stability and evolution will be evident within a rape series, and that rapists will vary in Running Head: LINKING SERIAL RAPE 6 the degree to which their offending behavior is driven by fantasy.…”

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A Test of Case Linkage Principles with Solved and Unsolved Serial Rapes

Woodhams

Labuschagne

2011

J Police Crim Psych

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Strategic Behavior in Adolescent Sexual Offenses Against Children: Linking Modus Operandi to Sexual Behaviors

Cited by 33 publications

References 28 publications

Reactions to Resistance: The Role of Contextual Factors in Sex Offending

Reactions to Resistance: The Role of Contextual Factors in Sex Offending

Patterns of criminal achievement in sexual offending: Unravelling the “successful” sex offender

A Test of Case Linkage Principles with Solved and Unsolved Serial Rapes

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