Attachment and Sexual Offending
Chapter One
The Relationship of
Attachment to Juvenile
Sexual Offending
In attachment theory, the term "attachment" is actually a multidimensional construct rather
than a word with a single fixed meaning, separating into attachment experiences, attachment
patterns, and attachment strategies. There is a link between these dimensions of
course, and attachment patterns and strategies develop out of earlier attachment experiences
and later come to affect current attachment experiences. However, although they
operate interactively and simultaneously to define attachment as a whole, each dimension
represents a different aspect of attachment, each with its own meaning. Indeed, this is one
of the difficulties in describing "attachment," per se.
The word itself has come to be synonymous with being attached, or having a sense of
social connection and the ability to become socially connected. Yet "attachment" describes
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