RT Article
T1 Using Latent Class Analysis to Explore Subtypes of Youth Who Have Committed Sexual Offenses
JF Youth violence and juvenile justice
VO 17
IS 4
SP 413
OP 430
A1 Brown, Adam
LA English
YR 2019
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1744872899
AB Attempts to identify typologies of youth who have committed sexual offenses have been challenged by their overlapping characteristics with youth who have committed nonsexual crimes, as well as methodological limitations that make the results difficult to translate into direct practice. In the current study, a technical new way of identifying subtypes of these young people was proposed using latent class analysis, a person-centered approach that allows categorical subtypes to be revealed by the data rather than hypothesized differences based on individual factors. The indicators included in this analysis were sexual behaviors only, thereby eliminating any overlap with general delinquents. In a sample of 573 male youth between the ages of 11 and 20 (M = 16.75, SD = 1.72), four unique classes were identified. Research implications are offered.
K1 Juvenile sexual offender
K1 Latent Class Analysis
K1 Sexual Offending
K1 Typologies
DO 10.1177/1541204018820578