TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2013//
TI  - Can God help? Religion and spirituality among adolescent male sex offenders
JO  - Journal of child and adolescent trauma
A1  - Gockel, Annemarie
A1  - Burton, David
SP  - 274
EP  - 286
VL  - 6
IS  - 4
N2  - Religion has been identified as a key protective factor against delinquency among teens. Sex offending, in particular, is often seen as a moral as well as a clinical and a correctional issue. Yet, there is virtually no research exploring religion among adolescent sex offenders. Although religion is a multidimensional construct, it has most frequently been assessed by one or two blunt measures such as church attendance or self-rated salience of religion in existing studies (Johnson, De Li, Larson, & McCullough, 2000). In this project, we used a multidimensional measure (the BMMRS) to explore the impact of religion on delinquency committed by adolescent sex offenders (N = 196). We found that religion played a significant role in the lives of the incarcerated adolescent males who formed the sample. In a mediation analysis, religion partially meditated the relationship between trauma and nonsexual delinquency among this population. Implications for research and treatment are explored.<p />
LA  - en
SN  - 1936-1521
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19361521.2013.836584
ID  - ref1
ER  -