title: Factors affecting attitudes toward juvenile sex offenders.
abstract: This study investigated attitudes toward juvenile sex offenders and factors influencing those attitudes. Additionally, the influences of perpetrator characteristics such as age, gender, and ethnicity on societal attitudes towards intervention requirements were also investigated. Overall, attitudes toward juvenile sex offenders and their treatment amenability were negative. No differences in attitudes toward juvenile sex offenders were found between those who had been victims of sexual abuse and those that had not. Sex offenses committed by juvenile female sex offenders were viewed to be more serious and require more intervention than those committed by juvenile male sex offenders.
authors.affiliation: Capstone Youth and Family Services, Vancouver, British Columbia.
authors.forename: Kimberly J
authors.initials: KJ
authors.lastname: Sahlstrom
authors.forename: Elizabeth L
authors.initials: EL
authors.lastname: Jeglic
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior; D000328:Adult; D001955:British Columbia / Q000453:epidemiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D007604:Juvenile Delinquency / Q000145:classification*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011639:Public Opinion; D012737:Sex Factors; D012742:Sex Offenses / Q000145:classification*; D012938:Social Perception; D012945:Social Values; D013240:Stereotyping; D013334:Students / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires