Elizabeth Letourneau, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Professor, addresses the effectiveness and need of prevention in child sexual abuse in this TedMed Talk. Letourneau stresses several points - 1) adolescent offenders should not be treated and punished like adults, 2) adolescent offenders have extremely low rates of recidivism, 3) interests/attractions do not always equate to action concerning sexual behavior and 4) how adolescents with pedophilia should be and want to be treated.
She also speaks about the negative consequences of punishing adolescent offenders as adults and listing them on the public registry. Adolescents experience the same stigmatization, anxiety, and depression that adults do as a result of being on the public registry.
Listen to the complete TedMed Talk at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2iV3Gf0lVA