title: Juvenile Sexual Homicide Offenders: Thirty-Year Follow-Up Investigation.
abstract: Sexual homicide by a juvenile offender occurs approximately 9 times per year in the United States. Little is known about the post-incarceration adjustment of these offenders. The current study was designed to follow up 30 years later on a sample of eight adolescent sexual homicide offenders who were convicted of murder and sentenced to adult prison. The results indicated that six out of eight offenders were released from prison, and their mean sentence length was 12 years and 2 months. Four offenders out of the six released were rearrested, but none of the arrests were for homicide, sexual or otherwise. The post-incarceration arrests were for violent, drug-related, and property crimes, as well as possession of a firearm. Three out of the four recidivists have been recommitted to prison. Implications concerning the comparability of results to past research, time served in prison, and types of post-release offenses are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Graduate Student University of South Florida, Tampa, USA.
authors.forename: Norair
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Khachatryan
authors.affiliation: University of South Florida, Tampa, USA kheide@usf.edu.
authors.forename: Kathleen M
authors.initials: KM
authors.lastname: Heide
authors.affiliation: Lake Correctional Institution, Clermont, Florida, USA.
authors.forename: Erich V
authors.initials: EV
authors.lastname: Hummel
authors.affiliation: City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
authors.forename: Heng Choon Oliver
authors.initials: HC
authors.lastname: Chan
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006708:Homicide / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D018451:Homosexuality, Male; D006801:Humans; D007604:Juvenile Delinquency / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D008297:Male; D011330:Prisons; D012008:Recurrence; D012742:Sex Offenses / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D013997:Time Factors; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: gay male sexual murder; juvenile homicide offenders; recidivism; sex offenders; sexual murder