ABSTRACT
This chapter highlights unusual or special groups of offenders whose assessment and treatment might differ somewhat from the more commonly encountered clients admitted to a sexual offender treatment program. As partial proof, the data indicate that many of the victims of the types of sexual crimes are more often the female offender’s own child, when compared with male sexual offenders. The youth agreed and, indeed, said that when he turned eighteen, he and Stacy planned to marry and raise a family. The issue of whether he could then continue his schooling had never been discussed between them. Perhaps some crucial step in their sexual development or some sexual abuse at a critical point in their own childhoods led them to their sexual fascination with children. Juvenile offenders have been mainly defined in the literature as between the ages of twelve and eighteen. But a problem can arise in simply trying to define who is an adolescent offender.
