Juvenile Sex Offenders Case Study

To combat the issue of juvenile sex offenders from a social control perspective, there must be a focus on prevention instead of rehabilitation or punishment. From a family perspective, there is a major focus on economics. Of all the working single mothers in the United States, eighty-seven percent make minimum wage, meaning they are most likely working full time to support their families. This leaves more time for children of single parents to be unsupervised. This supervision is crucial to combatting juvenile sex offenses when referring back to the fact that the majority of offenses occur at either the victim’s or perpetrator’s home. There is no reasonable explanation for letting children, on average 6.24 years apart to be hanging out alone knowing these statistics. Along the lines …show more content…
In this case, social services should intervene so make a safe plan for the family. To begin, the perpetrator should be removed from the house immediately and the family should start counseling for the entire family and the victim-perpetrator relationship. Counselling would be in an attempt to restore or maintain the victim’s and perpetrator’s family bond as to not predispose either to delinquency because of a social bond breakdown. Seasons would be paced to the victim’s and parent’s discretion. During this seasons the family will be made aware of labeling the child perpetrator a monster or sexual offender. The perpetrator would ideally be staying with a relative during this time or possible a safe home. When and if the victim in ever ready, the perpetrator should be reintroduced to the home but never be left unsupervised so that the victim feel safe at all times. This is a harder concept when the child offender is very young and may not understand that what they did was wrong, but it is a necessary precaution for the victim’s