Assignment

Conduct a preliminary literature search, on juvenile sex offenders, to ensure that you will have ready access to scholarly resources.

Create a 2- to 3-page paper describing your selected criminal behavior of juvenile sex offenders. You must consider the following when creating your paper:

• Describe the criminal behavior in detail, including any research you have found on the origins or development of this behavior (in approximately 1 page).

• Discuss the specific target area you want to address in the problem (in approximately 1 paragraph).

• Describe the specific group you want to focus on from among those affected by the criminal problem, i.e., juveniles, women, etc.

• Describe the possible prevention and intervention ideas (in approximately 1 page).

• Discuss research support for the effectiveness of your proposed prevention or intervention ideas (in approximately 2-3 paragraphs).

To explain, you picked juvenile sex offenders and want to develop a prevention program for adolescent sex offenders. Specifically, you want to target risk factors associated with this population.

Support your assumptions by citing reputable source material used for this assignment in APA format.