The Internal World of the Juvenile Sex Offender

Argues the case for the usefulness of an empirically based understanding of the internal world of juvenile sex offenders as a way of humanely relating to their difficulties. This title details the extent and nature of juvenile sex offending and its impact on victims and provides a description of this offender group.

Timothy Keogh

Series Editor's Foreword , Foreword , Introduction , The Forensic Focus , The nature of juvenile sex offending , The characteristics and differences of juvenile sex offenders , The Lens , Attachment and juvenile sex offending , Psychopathy and juvenile sex offending , Malignant narcissism, psychopathy, and perversion , Epigenetics and aspects of the neurobiology of attachment and sexual behaviour , Magnifying the Lens: Research Findings , The study and its findings , A closer view into the internal world of the juvenile sex offender , Practice and Application , Implications for the assessment of the juvenile sex offender , The tale of two psyches: case histories of juvenile sex offenders , Mentalization based therapy (MBT) and other psychoanalytic treatment , Epilogue