Jan L. Everhart Newman

• JD, PhD
• Professor at Auburn University

Current research has established that male adolescents with illegal sexual behavior (AISB) are a heterogeneous population. We aimed to explore this within-group heterogeneity to derive clinically relevant groups of AISB using the Millon Adolescent Clinical Inventory (MACI). We then compared these groups on selected covariates (age at intake, minori...

Some adjudicated adolescents receive treatment for their offenses in residential facilities. Detained adolescents’ engagement in either low levels of compliant behavior or excess behavior (e.g., swearing, gestures) while following commands from residential personnel may result in decreased opportunities for those youth to access preferred activitie...

The current study was designed to explore profiles of the forms and functions of aggression in two distinct juvenile offender populations, in a group of juvenile offenders adjudicated for illegal sexual behavior (n = 138) and in a group of juvenile offenders adjudicated for general delinquent behavior (n = 243). This is the first study of its kind...

Prior empirical examinations of the factor structure of the Millon Adolescent Clinical Inventory (MACI; Millon, 1993, 2006) have produced mixed results and have not included confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). In this study, we examined the internal structure of the MACI in a sample of 1,015 detained adolescent boys (ages 13 to 19). The sample was...

Sexual offenses committed by adolescents are not driven simply by general antisocial tendencies. Rather, adolescents with sexual offense convictions differ significantly from non-sex-offending delinquents on important psychosocial domains. For example, Seto and Lalumiere (2010) have suggested youth who are convicted for sexual offenses present with...