Juvenile Sexual Offending Causes, Consequences, and Correction

This essential resource is a revised version of the book that set the standard for the understanding and treatment of young people who commit sexual offenses. The Third Edition contains expanded coverage of treatment, including new chapters on therapeutic relationships and the process of change, abuse-specific components of treatment, and offense-specific treatment interventions. Law enforcement professionals, psychiatrists, psychologists, psychotherapists, group therapists, and other mental health professionals will benefit from this major revision's update of ten years of new research and clinical experience.

Gail Ryan, MA, is a Director of the Perpetration Prevention Program at the Kempe Center for Prevention and Treatment of Child Abuse and Neglect in Denver and an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. She has facilitated the National Adolescent Perpetration Network for more than twenty-five years. Tom Leversee, LCSW, is an adjunct professor at the University of Denver Graduate School of Social Work and a member of the Colorado Sex Offender Management Board. Retired from the Colorado Division of Youth Services, he is author of the therapy curriculum and student manual, Moving Beyond Sexually Abusive Behavior. Sandy Lane, BSN, is retired from the Colorado Division of Youth Services. She also served as the clinical coordinator at RSA, Inc., one of the largest private agencies treating those who sexually offend in Colorado.