Preventing child sexual abuse by understanding perpetrators’ motivations

该项目旨在首次调查儿童性虐待犯罪者的经验动机。利用一种新的理论和方法，它有望发现关于儿童性虐待犯罪者动机的新知识。预期结果包括对儿童性虐待行为作出新的理论解释，以及改变政策和实践措施，以防止和应对澳大利亚及其他地区的儿童性虐待行为。这将带来重大好处，例如减少儿童性虐待的广泛、严重和代价高昂的影响，并为支持和加强政府倡议提供证据基础，如预防和应对儿童性虐待国家战略。

This project aims to investigate, for the first time, the experiential motivations of child sexual abuse perpetrators. Using a novel theoretical and methodological approach, it expects to discover new knowledge about the motivations of child sexual abuse perpetrators. Expected outcomes include new theoretical explanations for child sexual abuse perpetration and transformed policy and practice measures to prevent and respond to child sexual abuse in Australia and beyond. This should provide significant benefits, such as reduction of the widespread, severe and costly impacts of child sexual abuse, and an evidence base to support and enhance government initiatives such as the National Strategy to Prevent and Respond to Child Sexual Abuse.