Risk Management of Sexually Abusive Youth in Massachusetts, 1998-2004
Description
The goal of this study was to assist the Massachusetts
Department of Social Services (DSS) with the risk management of youth
(aged 4 to 20), identified through the Assessment for Safe and
Appropriate Placement (ASAP) program, because of their sexually
inappropriate and coercive behavior. The mission of this project was
to identify and test potentially useful risk and protective factors
for adolescent and pre-adolescent youth who had already begun engaging
in sexually coercive behavior. An award from the National Institute of
Justice complemented and supported state funding for the research
project and permitted detailed coding of 822 cases selected from all
28 DSS area offices throughout Massachusetts. The first five months of
the research program had two priorities: (1) the creation of a
dictionary designed to permit maximally reliable coding of the
information gleaned from the DSS files on these youth, and (2) coding
a representative sample of youth on critical variables. Overall, the
researchers requested the files of approximately 1,300 ASAP-evaluated
youth. The present sample consists of 720 cases that had been coded,
checked, and entered when data analysis began at the beginning of June
2004. Variables include referral and placement history, demographic
characteristics, critical antecedent childhood life experiences,
familial/parental characteristics, presenting behavioral problems
including detailed coding of sexually normative, deviant
(paraphillic), inappropriate and coercive behaviors, and psychological
and/or emotional symptoms.
Resources
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ICPSR04308.v1 |
https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR04308.v1 |
Tags
- sexual-behavior
- adolescents
- youthful-offenders
- sex-offenders
- sexual-abuse
- juvenile-offenders
- risk-management
- youths