What is the cycle of abuse and how does it help us work with young sexual offenders?

The unusualness of this behavior is because the minors ' interest in nudity underlies sexual motives or desires . The report in The International Journal on adolescent sexual offenders says that it could be only normal if they involve the curiosity of an 18 to 30-month-old who is interested in learning how adults do everything from baking cookies to driving the car , and including use of the bathroom (Ryan et al 1987 . However , the habits should subside at age five , for by then the child has learned bathroom manners . The gravitation toward sexual violence

among young boys begins at this stage , when their consciousness could direct their behaviors with some ulterior motives

In the context of the Cycle of Abuse Theory , this could be a calm stage but there is a building up of tension- the sexual desires exhibited by the minor 's obsession to see nude females . In a case study on juvenile sexual offences , one respondent , a minor on a rehabilitation program confessed that it started with observing the babysitter having sex with her boyfriend , and it was followed with a habit of assaulting girls in the school grounds , with a motivation to actually frighten , control and degrade them (Huttenlocker , 2007

The next phase in a minor 's progression towards sexual violence sets in even as early as nine years . Very conscious that what they are doing is inappropriate , they make their acts to look like accidental incidences A teenage boy under a juvenile program said that his first intrusive behaviors began with a desire to touch female private parts when playing in crowds , and secretly watching out for girls . It marked the beginning of his conscious motives to stalk girls , leading to his cyclic sexual violence . It soon developed into an aggressive form of harassment , at age 11 , which...