dc.contributor.advisor | Borduin, Charles M. | eng |
dc.contributor.author | Ronis, Scott T., 1977- | eng |
dc.date.issued | 2008 | eng |
dc.date.submitted | 2008 Summer | eng |
dc.description | The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. | eng |
dc.description | Title from title screen of research.pdf file (viewed on July 29, 2009) | eng |
dc.description | Thesis (Ph. D.) University of Missouri-Columbia 2008. | eng |
dc.description.abstract | The development of criminal trajectories among sexual offenders (SOs) was explored in two studies. Study 1 focused on identifying distinct criminal trajectories, and Study 2 examined the association between these trajectories and psychosocial characteristics. Participants were 1,725 youths and their parents who were part of the National Youth Survey, which followed youths from adolescence through early adulthood. Individual youths completed a self-report delinquency measure in seven waves of the study, and youths and their parents completed psychosocial measures in the first wave. One hundred thirty-one individuals reported committing at least one sexual offense across the seven waves. Results from Study 1 indicated three criminal trajectories (i.e., low, moderate, and chronic) and that SOs generally did not have different criminal trajectories during adolescence and early adulthood than did nonsexual index offenders (NIOs). Similar proportions of SOs and NIOs were found on the three trajectories. Results from Study 1 also suggested that there were subgroups of SOs whose general patterns of criminal behavior were different from each other. Study 2 demonstrated psychosocial differences between individuals in the three trajectories but few differences between SOs and NIOs within each trajectory. Implications for research, policy, and treatment are discussed. | eng |
dc.description.bibref | Includes bibliographical references. | eng |
dc.identifier.merlin | b70589094 | eng |
dc.identifier.oclc | 428439870 | eng |
dc.identifier.uri | https://doi.org/10.32469/10355/5524 | eng |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10355/5524 | |
dc.language | English | eng |
dc.publisher | University of Missouri--Columbia | eng |
dc.relation.ispartofcommunity | University of Missouri--Columbia. Graduate School. Theses and Dissertations | eng |
dc.rights | OpenAccess. | eng |
dc.rights.license | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 License. | |
dc.subject.lcsh | Teenage sex offenders | eng |
dc.subject.lcsh | Criminal behavior | eng |
dc.subject.lcsh | Criminal behavior, Prediction of | eng |
dc.title | Criminal behavior patterns of adolescents and young adults who have histories of sexual offenses | eng |
dc.type | Thesis | eng |
thesis.degree.discipline | Psychological sciences (MU) | eng |
thesis.degree.grantor | University of Missouri--Columbia | eng |
thesis.degree.level | Doctoral | eng |
thesis.degree.name | Ph. D. | eng |