Situational factors in female-perpetrated child sexual abuse in organisations: implications for prevention

Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse: Implications of programme evaluation research

Thirty child abuse prevention programme evaluation studies were selected according to a set of methodological criteria following an extensive manual and computer literature search. Targets for intervention in 17 studies were children; in 3 were parents; in 4 were teachers; and in 6 studies multisystemic programmes were evaluated where some combination of children, parents and teachers were targ...

Risk Factors for Child Sexual Abuse

Becker reviews research on child sexual abuse perpetrators, highlighting the role of deviant sexual interests and behaviors in perpetration. Becker discusses characteristics of child sexual abuse perpetrators, problems in determining recidivism rates, and the efficacy of sexual offender treatment measures. CSA perpetrators are a diverse group in terms of both background and perpetration acts, b...

Child sexual abuse prevention: does it work?

Child sexual abuse prevention programs designed to teach children ways to recognize, resist, and report sexual abuse have proliferated in the past five years. The authors evaluate one such program to find out what children know before instruction, if they learn how to prevent sexual abuse, and how they and their parents and professionals who work with children react to such a program.

Attempted and completed incidents of stranger-perpetrated child sexual abuse and abduction.

OBJECTIVE To establish the prevalence, typology and nature of attempted or completed incidents of stranger-perpetrated sexual abuse or abduction of children "away from home". METHODS A questionnaire was completed by 2,420 children (83% response rate) aged 9-16 years in 26 elementary and high schools in North-West England. RESULTS Of these children, 19.0% (n=461) reported that they had been ...

Exploring the relationship between neglect and adult-perpetrated intrafamilial child sexual abuse: evidence scope 2