Paper On Child Molesters

Sex offenders have been a serious problem for our legal system at all levels, not to mention those who have been their victims. There are 43,000 inmates in prison for sexual offenses while each year in this country over 510,000 children are sexually assaulted(Oakes 99). The latter statistic, in its context, does not convey the severity of the situation. Each year 510,000 children have their childhood's destroyed, possibly on more than one occasion, and are faced with dealing with the assault for the rest of their lives. Sadly, many of those assaults are perpetrated by people who have already been through the correctional system only to victimize again. Sex offenders, as a class of criminals, are nine times more likely to repeat their

Perpetrators of sex crimes committed against children often start by gaining the trust of potential victims and the adults in their lives’ by using a tactic called “grooming.” The purpose of this memo is to give the court a baseline understanding of what sex offender victim grooming is, its purpose, and techniques. Because of the extensive amount of research and information on this topic, this paper does not detail all of the grooming techniques used by child sex offenders to groom potential victims.

In recent years our newspapers, televisions, and radios have been inundated with news stories about sexual offenders and sexual predators. Stories such as the kidnapping and murder of Polly Klass, Carlie Brucia, Amber Hagerman, and Jessica Lunsford have shocked the nation. Sex offenders and predators commit despicable acts; however, their acts seem more despicable when they are committed upon the most venerable members of our society, our children. Even with the new Jessica Lunsford legislation in Florida some citizens feel that it is not enough to keep their communities safe. Many cities are now looking at limiting the areas in which sex offenders and predators can live in hopes of protecting children. Many

Child Molesters, according to van Dam, have a “chameleon-like charm,” allowing discrepancies to be ignored or glossed over. Therefore, disclosures from children sound even less credible when they do occur, and even after a molester is convicted, many people are still often advocating for them. Moreover, molesters are constantly “on task” while around children and their protection networks, identifying what others need and offering to assist without expecting anything in return. Their mind is set on what they can do to obtain trusted access to

The purpose of this paper was to describe the multiple different sex offender typologies. There are four main rapist typologies: power reassurance, power assertive, anger retaliatory, and anger excitation. Child molesters fall under either a situational child molester or preferential child molester. Another sex offender is a juvenile sex offender. This paper will also identify the method of operation (M.O.) and provide a basic profile for each type of rapist.

The unbelievable reality is that a person who sexually abuses children may seem very average and ordinary to the world. He/she may be a leader in the church, in the community or in business, a sports coach, scout leader, or celebrity. Sex offenders do not fit a classic stereotype and are not necessarily uneducated, unemployed, impoverished or an alcoholic.

Pedophiles have been around for centuries in all different forms: male, female, young, and old. They can also be found everywhere: school districts, colleges, in the workplace, daycare centers, church, and even in a home. A lot of the time, it is difficult to pick them out in a crowd because they are normal, everyday people. To be qualified as a pedophile, someone has to be at least sixteen, have sexual feelings for a child usually under the age of thirteen for at least six months, and be a minimum of five years older than the child(ren). They also have to either act on the sexual feelings or struggle keeping their feelings to themselves. Contrary to this, there is always an exception to every rule. If an older teenager has been in a decently long relationship with a child twelve or thirteen, they are excused from being a pedophile (American Psychiatric Association, 2013).

Sexual behaviors and experimentation are very much a part of childhood development. Normative sexual behaviors of children consists of preschool children poking others bodies, and being interested in bathroom functions, while children ages 5 to 7 years are telling dirty jokes, kissing, and holding hands, and children ages 8 to 12 years, are mooning and exhibitionism, kissing, and touching others’ genitals (Caldwell, 2007). However when children are not supervised appropriately they are capable of sexually harming other children. Adolescents are accountable for perpetrating 20% of all sexual assaults, along with 50% of all child sexual abuse cases (Keelan & Fremouw, 2013). However in considering that statistic some sexual harming behaviors can be within the parameters of normal child behavior, and sometimes rarely signal predatory inclinations (Caldwell, 2007). The vast majority of youth harmful sexual acts are manifestations of non-sexual feelings. In fact, many mental health care professionals have found that much of the behavior classified as sex offenses should not necessarily be considered predatory. Therapists point out that many sexual offenses are carried out by naïve experimenters who are overly impulsive and/or immature adolescents that sometimes engage in sexual experimentation (Smith, Wampler, Jones, & Reifman, 2005). Examining the sexual behavior along with the age of the perpetrator and victim helps classify whether or not those behaviors fall

The term “sex offender” implies that those who commit sex related offenses are in essence, the same as one another, but in reality, they are a very dissimilar group. Sex offenders differ with respect to behaviors and patterns, population data, stimuli, and the threat level subjected to the community. For the reason that sex offenders are so varied, the strategies imposed for treatment will not work on a ‘one size fits all model’, rather, an individualized approach based off the characteristics and offenses of the offender (Center for Sex Offender Management, 2008).

When we hear the words “sex offender” we immediately think about a grown man who has sexually abused a young girl or boy. We call them pedophiles or predators but we never stop to think that the sex offender can also be a woman or even a young girl/boy who has sexually assaulted another minor. This is mainly due to the fact that we don’t hear about it in the news as much as when a grown man commits the offense. In the world we live in today which is full of many social media sites we are now becoming more aware of these types of offenses being committed and therefore coming to the attention of law enforcement as well. For this paper I will be defining juvenile sex offenders as males and females between the ages of 6 and 16 as many states already

Researchers point out that child sexual abusers are driven by motives that are not the same as a pedophile. These motives can include stress, marital troubles, anti-social tendencies, or drug and alcohol abuse (Lanning, 2010). The sexual abuse of a child is not an indicator that the perpetrator is a pedophile. Sex offenders can be separated into two types: preferential and situational. The preferential is a true pedophile, only having a sexual attraction to prepubescent children. According to a study on over 2400 adult male sex offenders who had been categorized as pedophiles, only 7% of the men identified themselves as exclusively preferring children. This is an indication that most child sexual abusers fall into the non-exclusive or situational category (Hall, 2007).

The environment a child is surrounded in is what develops a child’s perception into the mind of a criminal. The mind of a child is made purely of innocence until one is exposed to destructive developmental patterns. Children that have grown into the shoes of a criminal had been raised into a home with no control and where the environment creates vulnerability. Those who grow up into childhood with an unorganized lifestyle only want to possess the control and power that criminals contain. Children raised in this unstable environment develop a slow pace of skills adolescents learn earlier on (Shi and Nicol par.2). Juvenile sex offenders do not fully develop basic skills which makes it easier to be negatively pressured by society (par.

When someone commits a crime they serve out the sentence or punishment dealt to them befitting the crime in question and usually return to their lives. Some with little monitoring and some with none at all, free again into the world. The problem we’re facing today is figuring out what to do with the criminals, the people, even other criminals hate. Thought to be the lowest of the many pedophiles, those grown who prey on underage children sexually, seem to be a topic of confusion. We simply do not know what to do with them, to them, or how to keep our children safe. Cases like Steve Butler, as written about within Lewin’s “Texas Court Agrees to Castration for Rapist of Thirteen Year Old Girl” have sparked the question whether castration will bring our children safety, keep these offenders from reoccurring as many do, or if it is just a barbaric human rights violation with no real long term benefits?

According to a website, Wikipedia, “The term appears in a section titled "Violation of Individuals under the Age of Fourteen” which focuses on the forensic psychiatry aspect of child sexual offenders in general (Wikipedia, 2014).” Kraft-Ebing, A Viennese psychiatrist, concluded in his findings that a pedophile is known to have either of the three traits, they can either inherit it through heredity, their main purpose and target is mainly young children and mainly a pedophile don’t normal interact or have intercourse with children, they only touch and befriend a children, winning the child’s trust, resulting in the child performing sexual act towards the pedophile. Pedophile comes in all walks of life, from

Child Abuse, intentional acts that result in physical or emotional harm to children. The term child abuse covers a wide range of behavior, from actual physical assault by parents or other adult caretakers to neglect of a child’s basic needs. Child abuse is also sometimes called child maltreatment.