Knowing Sex: Formal and Informal Sex Education

Formal and Informal Justice Responses to Youth Sex Offending

Changes in formal sex education: 1995-2002.

CONTEXT Although comprehensive sex education is broadly supported by health professionals, funding for abstinence-only education has increased. METHODS Using data from the 1995 National Survey of Adolescent Males, the 1995 National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG) and the 2002 NSFG, changes in male and female adolescents' reports of the sex education they have received from formal sources were ...

Sex education programs for children and adolescents: A Systematic Review

Sex education is considered as one of the main aspect of education that overlook in Iran. There were many challenges against application of sex education programs. We used systematic review for answering three questions related to definition and conceptualization of sex education, sex education curriculum and skills and investigating the effectiveness of these programs. Findings of this study s...

Sex Education Gaps in University Curriculum

Background: Sex education is one of the challenging areas of educational systems that has always been accompanied by many problems due to some obstacles and constraints. This has led to occurrence of many behavioral problems and deviations. The aim of this study was to determine the sex education gaps in university curriculum from the students' perspective. Methods: This was a descriptive-surve...

PREDICTORS OF DESISTANCE AMONG SEX OFFENDERS: THE INTERACTION OF FORMAL AND INFORMAl, SOCIAL CONTROLS*

Increasing attention is being given to the issue of desistance or cessation in adult criminal careers. We contribute to this research by considering how informal and formal social controls affect recidivism among 556 sex offenders placed on probation in 1992. We conduct an event history analysis of reoffense, based on the predictions of Sampson and Laub's and Gottfredson and Hirschi's control t...