As an adolescence, the sexual behaviors affected their gender and intellectual abilities. A male sexual offender is more than likely to comment offence against the opposite sex versus a female not discriminating the sex of their victim. Intellectual is defined as the impairment of knowledge and adaptive behavior functions. In finding, a fair amount of sex offenders referred to having mild learning disabilities that lead to special educational needs. They also lacked poor social skills and held poorly disciplined behaviors in …show more content…
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In addition to the recent development characteristics, sex offenders are found to have a loss in the working memory, sustaining attention and fluency. A brain study of an adult sex offender focus on the frontal temporal lobe, impairments in verbal abilities, and decision-making concepts. These concepts are the main description of a lack of development of a sex offender.
Miyaguchi, K., & Shirataki, S. (2014). Executive functioning problems of juvenile sex offenders with low levels of measured intelligence. Journal Of Intellectual & Developmental Disability, 39(3), 253-260.