An Integrated Life‐Course Developmental Theory of Sexual Offending

Smallbone, Stephen; Cale, Jesse

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“…As research on adult sexual offending began to mature and research on youth sexual offenders themselves developed, it became apparent that these early conceptions were misleading. It now seems clear that only a minority of adult sexual offenders begin sexual offending as adolescents, and that most youth sexual offending does not persist into adulthood (Smallbone & Cale, in press). Nevertheless many youth sexual offenders remain at significant risk of committing further sexual offences during adolescence, and some are at risk of persisting into adulthood (Nisbet, Wilson, & Smallbone, 2004).…”

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“…We see evidence concerning the effectiveness of various treatments with youth sexual offenders as part of this broader evidence base, rather than as a reason to try to replicate a clinical model developed elsewhere. We have been progressively developing our own theoretical model that aims to integrate individual, ecological, and situational levels of explanation (Smallbone & Cale, in press; Smallbone, Marshall, & Wortley, 2008a; Wortley & Smallbone, 2006).…”

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Preventing Youth Sexual Violence and Abuse: Problems and Solutions in the Australian Context

Smallbone

Rayment-McHugh

2013

Australian Psychologist

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Young people under 18 years of age are responsible for a significant proportion of officially recorded sexual offences worldwide, including in Australia. In this article we examine the wider problem of youth sexual violence and abuse, and propose solutions for the Australian context. We describe an ecological, field-based clinical forensic practice model developed in Queensland, and show how engagement with youth sexual offenders within their natural social ecologies has led to the discovery of specific endemic problems that would normally remain hidden or beyond the reach of conventional clinical services. Drawing on public health and crime prevention concepts and methods, we present a comprehensive framework for organising prevention strategies and describe how this framework has guided our approach to developing place-based prevention strategies at two sites. We conclude by outlining the changes we see as necessary for forensic psychology practitioners to engage in a wider crime prevention agenda.

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Section: Clinical Challenges and Solutionsmentioning

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Preventing Youth Sexual Violence and Abuse: Problems and Solutions in the Australian Context

Smallbone

Rayment-McHugh

2013

Australian Psychologist

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“…Third, those adolescent sexual abusers who do continue to commit sexual offences into adulthood tend to desist by their early-thirties (Lussier & Blokland, 2014). Thus, although there is undoubtedly some overlap, adolescence-onset and adulthood-onset sexual abuse offenders appear to be two largely distinct offender populations (Smallbone & Cale, 2015).…”

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“…For all these individuals the onset offence marks the first time that they have engaged in sexually abusive behavior. It is also possible that the process of sexual offending itself influences offenders' subsequent cognitions, motivations and behavior (Smallbone & Cale, 2015). Examining the offence characteristics of established patterns of sexual offending in persistent offenders might therefore mask important information about how and why an individual engages in sexually abusive behavior for the first time and the context and locations within which this occurs.…”

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Similarities and differences in adolescence-onset versus adulthood-onset sexual abuse incidents

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Child Abuse & Neglect

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“…Adult theories of offending are located in research that suggests the likelihood of repetition of established behaviours. In contrast, sexual offending by adolescents replicates juvenile offending which is far from entrenched and tends to diminish with maturation (Smallbone and Cale, ). Therefore, the first decade of this millennium saw the emergence of treatment models based upon developmental frameworks alongside a systemic perspective.…”

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A Balancing Act: A Family Perspective to Sibling Sexual Abuse

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Padbury³

2013

Child Abuse Review

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This article will focus on responding to harmful sexual behaviour by young people towards their siblings and other young children in their family network. It will explore a framework for practice of engaging children and their families following disclosure of sexual abuse, developed by the Sexual Abuse Counselling and Prevention Program at the Children's Protection Society (CPS) in Melbourne, Australia. This article will detail statutory and policy frameworks that provide a context for therapeutic intervention. This particularly applies to consideration of the separation of young people from their families, and where this occurs, to the matter of their reunification with their families. The CPS is particularly exercised by the challenge of achieving a balance in individual safety and the wellbeing of all family members. The article will look at examples of work in which balancing the best interests of different family members which at times are in potential if not actual conflict poses a challenge to counselling staff. The article will provide ideas and approaches to consider for those programmes that walk this difficult journey with families. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Key Practitioner Messages In working with sibling sexual abuse, therapeutic work should equally consider the needs of the victim and the offending sibling. Joint work with all family members can contribute to creating a safe environment, which promotes family healing. Safety planning needs to occur in partnership with parents and statutory bodies.

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An Integrated Life‐Course Developmental Theory of Sexual Offending

Cited by 29 publications

References 58 publications

Preventing Youth Sexual Violence and Abuse: Problems and Solutions in the Australian Context

Preventing Youth Sexual Violence and Abuse: Problems and Solutions in the Australian Context

Similarities and differences in adolescence-onset versus adulthood-onset sexual abuse incidents

A Balancing Act: A Family Perspective to Sibling Sexual Abuse

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