Research and Public Policy Series

Young men, sexuality and sexual offending (risk management and public education)

Patrick Tidmarsh
Male Adolescent Program for Positive Sexuality

Published in:
Paedophilia : policy and prevention
Marianne James (ed.)
ISBN 0 642 24047 7 ; ISSN 1326-6004
Canberra: Australian Institute of Criminology, 1997
(Research and Public Policy Series, no. 12)

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Abstract

Australian adolescents perpetrate a vast number of sexual offences against children, women and men within the community. Young people who commit sexual offences do not follow the pattern of other young offenders, who tend to "grow out of it" when they reach adulthood. Adolescent sexual offenders tend rather to "grow into it". The need for intervention at the earliest opportunity is therefore paramount.