Juvenile Offenders and Victims: 1999 National Report

Challenging the Myths

As the Nation moves into the 21st century, the reduction of juvenile crime, violence, and victimization constitutes one of the most crucial challenges of the new millennium. To meet that challenge, reliable information is essential. Juvenile Offenders and Victims: 1999 National Report offers a comprehensive overview of these pervasive problems and the response of the juvenile justice system. Th...

Individual, family, peer, and academic characteristics of male juvenile sexual offenders.

This study examined the individual functioning, interpersonal relations, and academic performance of 115 male juveniles who were divided into 5 demographically matched groups (sexual offenders with peer/adult victims, sexual offenders with child victims, violent nonsexual offenders, nonviolent nonsexual offenders, and nondelinquent youths). Parents and youths completed self-report instruments, ...

The internet and family and acquaintance sexual abuse.

This article explores the dynamics of cases involving family and acquaintance sexual offenders who used the Internet to commit sex crimes against minors. Although the stereotype of Internet crimes involves unknown adults meeting juvenile victims online, Internet use can also play a role in sexual crimes against minors by family members and acquaintances. Data were collected from a national samp...

Juvenile Victims and Offenders

Figure 1. Estimated Number of Arrests for Cp Production, by Year Trends in Arrests for Child Pornography Production: the Third National Juvenile Online Victimization Study (njov‐3)

This rise was driven largely by a dramatic increase in cases involving " youth‐produced " sexual images – pictures taken by minors, usually of themselves, which met legal definitions of child pornography. In most of these cases, an adult offender who solicited images from a minor was the person arrested. Reflecting this trend, there were also in‐ creases in the proportion of adolescent victims ...