@article{ref1,
title="Criminogenic needs as intervening factors in the relation between insecure attachments and youth sexual violence",
journal="Sexual abuse: a journal of research and treatment",
year="2019",
author="Yoder, Jamie and Grady, Melissa D. and Brown, Adam and Dillard, Rebecca",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="1079063218821108-1079063218821108",
abstract="There is a strong theoretical and research base demonstrating the link between attachment styles and adolescent sexual offending. However, this relationship may be best explained by deficit-based mediational pathways including criminogenic needs such as emotional or affect regulation and callousness. Grady, Levenson, and Bolder propose a framework that details criminogenic needs as intermediary variables in the attachment-sexual offending relationship. Using data on adolescents adjudicated of sexual and nonsexual crimes in a Western state ( N = 200), two structural equation models (SEM) tested direct and indirect relationships between ambivalent and avoidant attachment styles (in separate models), dysregulation including cognitive and behavioral transitions, emotional control, and inhibited/impulsive behaviors, callousness, delinquency, and offending type (sexual or nonsexual offending). <br><br>RESULTS revealed statistically significant direct pathways between variables of interest and a multimediational effect of dysregulation and callousness in the relationship between insecure attachments and sexual offending. Treatment, policy, and research implications are discussed.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1079-0632",
doi="10.1177/1079063218821108",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1079063218821108"
}