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ABSTRACT
A hypothesized sketch of the atypical juvenile sex offender who engages in human sex trafficking is extrapolated from empirical data from the findings of victims of sex traffickers, juvenile sex offenders, and from one of the largest (N = 1056) cross-validation studies of a risk assessment tool in the field for sexually abusive youth. The tool, MEGA♪, assesses risk level of sexually abusive youth (4–19 years, males and females, adjudicated and non-adjudicated, including youth with low intellectual functioning). The compiled empirical data supports a paradigm describing one of the least known, or studied type of sexually abusive youth: the sexually abusive juvenile who engages in sex trafficking.
Notes
1. Coarse sexual improprieties; they manifest an unsophisticated awareness of psychosexual conditions, environments, or social situations, engaging in sexual behaviors that are crude, indecent, and outside the societal norms of propriety (e.g., crude sexual gestures and language, such as sexually suggestive comments, mooning, looking up skirts, a young child rubbing his or her genitals in public or trying to grab another’s genitals, a child looking over a stall in a public restroom (Miccio-Fonseca, Citation2010, pp. 735–736).
2. Adjudicated refers to the legal process of being arrested, charged, convicted, and sentenced for a sex crime.