Sex and Delinquency Flashcards
What are the 9 risk factors for early initiation of sexual intercourse?
1) poverty
2) delinquency
3) Drug-use
4) Low school achievement
5) Low School Achievement
6) Early Puberty
7) Low Religiosity
8) Low Parental monitoring
9) Poor parent/Child communication
What are four relationships between Problem Behaviour and Sexual Behaviour?
1) Self-reports of delinquency and aggression are correlated with high-risk sexual behaviour
2) Aggression in grade one was predictive of early initiation of intercourse
3) Juvenile offenders retrospectively report early sexual behaviour and multiple sexual partners
4) Substance abuse is correlated with early initiation and high-risk sexual behaviour
What is the Social Contagion Model?
A Social Learning Model How fast a behaviour is learned is determined by 1) How attractive the behaviour is and 2) tThe availability of participants
What determines how fast a behaviour is learned ( according to the social contagion model?)
1) How attractive the behaviour is
and
2) the availability of participants
*Deviant peer groups provide both of these components
Most rapists fall into three groups:
Young men, competitively disadvantaged men and psychopaths. Competitively disadvantaged men and psychopaths make up the smallest portion of rapists, the majority of who are young men
Group 1 of rapists: Adolescent and young men
- Most common type of rapist*
1) Lower status, less resources, hence competitively disadvantaged compared to other males that they must compete with for mates
2) Mating strategy: short term (low parental investment) and/or potentially coercive)
- Through violence, risk-taking, and general deviance- increase their status and access to mates
3) As these young men move into adulthood, they increase their status and resources, making them less competitively disadvantaged, and allowing them to move to a long-term mating strategy (investing in mate and offspring) parental investment strategy
* Sexual assault and other antisocial behaviour of this group are limited to adolescence and young adulthood *
Group 2 of rapists: Competitively Disadvantaged
1) Lower status and resources
2) Do not eventually desist in short term or coercive mating strategies
This is because they remain competitively disadvantaged due to neurodevelopmental insults, and therefore cannot effectively compete for resources and status in prosocial ways. Therefore they must continue high mating effort into adulthood.
* These men end up assuming a permanent high-mating activity strategy*
Their sexual coercion and other antisocial behaviour is Lifecourse Persistent (LCP)
Group 3 of rapists: psychopaths
“Finely tuned alternate strategy”- They are not competitively disadvantaged, but choose “high mating effort” over “parental investment” as an alternative strategy.
High mating effort/low parental investment
Serial monogamists
Also LCP
What are the differences in the mating strategies of psychopaths and competitively disadvantaged (LCP) ?
Diagnosed psychopaths report higher levels of self-esteem, higher numbers of partners and they are also more coercive. If they get rejected/ turned down they are likely to become violent or aggressive.
LCP/Competitively disadvantaged will take on a high effort mating strategy (which includes coercion), because they are disadvantaged and therefore can’t be competitive with a parental investment strategy.
Psychopaths are very sexual, narcissistic, charming and able to convince women to copulate with them with relative ease. They don’t want anything to do with kids and cab be more reproductively successful with maintaining a high mating activity strategy.
They have a tendency to move away from kin and put physical distance between themselves and kin.
High Mating Effort
Focus is on casual sex with many partners
High Parental Investment
Focus is on ensuring the health and well-being of mate and children
