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This article presents data obtained from clinical research concerning the place of the sexual violence form of acting out in the adolescent process. It refers to the hypothesis that this violence pertains to identity and indentificatory adjustments during adolescence, both as regards the perpetrator and the victim. The first part of this work is specifically devoted to adolescent perpetrators of sexual violence with the aim of bringing out the basic elements of a clinical and psychopathological comprehension of the psychic dynamics of these subjects, over and beyond the act which has been committed. In this same perspective, the second part of the work, using a psychodynamic orientation, considers the articulation between the positions of the perpetrator and the victim. All the elements of this clinical study are based on the situations of adolescents encountered in the framework of court-ordered appraisals, using projective tests (Rorschach and T.A.T.) and they offer a methodological proposal for the evaluation of sexual violence during adolescence.