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Kandakai, Tina L.; Ding, Kele; Broomfield, Tyree S.; Iverson, Susan V. – Journal of Ethnographic & Qualitative Research, 2013
The legal parameters regarding adult-child sexual intimacy varies across states. In many states, rules regarding the definition of "child" and age-of-consent laws seem to perpetuate lax and ambivalent responses to adult- child sex. To explore the criminal response to adult-child sex, particularly statutory rape, seven active male and…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Rape, Low Income, Urban Areas
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't Hart-Kerkhoffs, Lisette A.; Vermeiren, Robert R. J. M.; Jansen, Lucres M. C.; Doreleijers, Theo A. H. – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2011
The aim of this study was to investigate group sex offenses with regard to the role of leaders versus followers and to compare both groups on levels of psychopathology, intelligence, and psychosocial and offense-related characteristics. Eighty-nine adolescent group sex offenders (mean age = 14.9, SD = 1.4) referred by the police to the Dutch child…
Descriptors: Intelligence, Health Needs, Emotional Problems, Child Abuse