Risk and Protection? The lived experience of young men with harmful sexual behaviours: Towards a contextual understanding.

随着“儿童性虐待独立调查”的开展，儿童性暴力已成为当前社会关注的一个重大问题。这项定性研究将发展对表现出有害性行为（HSB）的年轻男性的社会背景的理解，以更好地理解他们的行为是如何在社会学和背景下形成的。除了个人罪犯特征之外，这是迄今为止关于这一主题的许多研究的方法，本研究旨在了解社会环境内部和社会环境之间的相互作用如何增强年轻人生活中的风险或保护过程。利用参与性行动研究的原则，过去在社会研究中被剥夺发言权的年轻人将积极参与新知识的共同生产。与苏格兰减少暴力单位（SVRU）的密切合作将加强年轻人作为“通过经验获得专业知识”的研究伙伴的参与和参与，并将最大限度地发挥苏格兰政府呼吁在HSB问题上进行社会变革的影响。通过与SVRU的合作和传播，本研究产生的知识交流具有很大的潜力，可以为共同的公共议程提供信息，以预防和应对HSB，概念化HSB的背景理解，可以为保护政策制定者和关键利益相关者提供信息，并有助于制定对背景敏感的预防策略，以减少年轻人的性暴力。

With the ongoing Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse,sexual violence perpetrated by children is a significant socialconcern currently. This qualitative research study will developunderstandings of the social contexts of young men who havedisplayed harmful sexual behaviours (HSB) to better understandhow their behaviours are shaped sociologically and contextually.Looking beyond individual offender characteristics, which has beenthe approach of much research on this topic to date, this study aimsto understand how the interplay within and between social contextsenhances risk or protective processes in the lives of young men.Utilising principles of Participatory Action Research (PAR), youngmen who have in the past been denied a voice in social researchwill be actively involved in the co-production of new knowledge.Close collaboration with Scottish Violence Reduction Unit (SVRU)will strengthen engagement and participation with young men asresearch partners with 'expertise through experience' and willmaximise impact given the Scottish Government's call for socialchange on the issue of HSB. Through collaboration anddissemination with SVRU, the knowledge exchange generatedfrom this study has significant potential to inform a shared publicagenda to prevent and respond to HSB, conceptualise a contextualunderstanding of HSB that can inform safeguarding policymakersand key stakeholders and contribute to the development ofcontextually sensitive preventative strategies to reduce sexualviolence by young people.