IntroductionWhen you hear the label "sexual offenders" it is associated with a negative stigma. The company strengthened the label by encouraging people to associate a profile with the offender. Typical words linked to a sex offender may include monster, horrible, atrocious, and disgusting. When conceptualizing the victim, some associations made might include words such as rape, molestation, women, or even minor. Typically, when society hears the word juvenile being associated with a sexual crime, it is assumed that the minor is the victim. While this is true in some cases, there is an increasing number of sexual crimes committed by minors. According to the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS), “juvenile sex offenders comprise more than one-quarter (25.8%) of all sex offenders and more than one-third (35.6%) of of sexual crimes against minor victims” (Finkelhor, D., Ormrod, R., & Chaffin, M., 2009, p. The following report will examine sexual crimes committed by male minors. The report will include characteristics of the type of crime, the factors of crime, an application of biosocial theory and the strengths and limitations presented by the theory. Crime type characteristics According to Finkelhor et al (2009), the NIBRS attempted to define a sexual crime however, states that it is difficult to concretely define a sex crime, as jurisdiction and registration laws vary from state to state as do officers' interpretation (p. 1). For the purposes of this report, “a sex offender refers to a person who has committed a forced or non-forced sexual crime" (Finkelhor et al, 2009, p. 4). Finkelhor et al (as cited by the United States Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of In...... focus of the document ......t on youth who commit sexual crimes. Retrieved from http://www. acacamps.org/sites/default/files/images/knowledge/Fact%20Sheet-- Youth%20Offenders.pdfNetland, J. & Miner, M. (2012) Psychopathic traits and parental dysfunction in sexual offenders and general male adolescent offenders Journal of Sexual Assault, 18 (1), 4-22.Siegel, L. (2010).Criminology, Belmont, CA: Cengage Learning.U.S. Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation (2010). US in 2010. Retrieved from http://www.albany.edu/sourcebook/pdf/t31072010.pdfVandiver, D. (2010 Evaluation of gender differences and co-offending patterns of predominantly male crime: a comparison). among a transnational sample of underage boys and girls arrested for sexual crimes and victims, 25 (2), 243-264.