Turning to Freud’s psychodynamic perspective, we can see that feelings and desires governed by the unconscious mind can surface if our conscious mind is not strong enough to govern the preconscious and unconscious mind. The result is acting out deviant fantasies or desires.

As you can see, these kids were very vicious with this woman. Is this social learning or behavior modeling? The influences of social learning are modeling their behavior after primary family members, environmental experiences, and mass media. However, studies have shown that mass media has less of an affect of behavior modeling than that of a parent of the same sex. What I would like to figure out is why youths who commit sex crimes against adults are so dramatically more violent than when they abuse younger children. So I will attempt my best interpretation from the information I have gathered.

Juvenile sexual offending appears to traverse racial and cultural boundaries. 8No single profile describes all adolescent offenders. All economic groups, all levels of intelligence, all races, and all religions are represented in the backgrounds of adolescent sexual abusers. There is no clear-cut profile that fits the adolescent sex offender, however some of the signs that may be warning are; loners who are separated from their peer group, they like to play with younger children, underachievers who are generally immature in most areas of functioning, experiencing a variety of social and behavioral problems at school and they see the world as basically antagonistic. And as I have said with regard to being abused, just because a significant number of offenders fit this profile, not all kids who fit this profile are, or become, sex offenders. Furthermore, while most juvenile sex offenders are male (aprox. 98%), there are growing reports of females perpetrating these crimes.

In conjunction with Freud’s perspective, Biocriminologist Lee Ellis developed what is known as the arousal theory to explain why adolescents act out. According to arousal theory, for a variety of genetic and environmental reasons, people’s brains function differently in response to environmental stimuli. These are what I like to call chaos seeking behaviors. Not enough stimuli from their surroundings create levels of boredom that starts them on a self-destructive track. Ellis calls these people “sensation seekers” who seek out stimulating activities, which can include aggressive and violent behaviors. It is these sensation, or chaos seekers who cannot govern their unconscious desires, and let those desires surface in unhealthy ways. 6A number of etiological factors (casual influences) have been identified that are believed to help explain the developmental origin of juvenile sex offending. Factors that have received the most attention to date include: maltreatment experiences,

Getting back to the psychoanalytic approach, it would be no wonder that children who are physically and/or sexually abused become traumatized and suffer fr

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