PREVENTING CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE--OFFENDERS MODUS OPERANDI

儿童性虐待被认为是一个全国性的问题， 流行病的比例。 它的影响可能会造成毁灭性的心理和 对受害者当前和未来的心理影响。 以学校为基础的教育计划是最常见的方法， 防止儿童性虐待。 然而，这些计划最近 因过度依赖临床轶事而受到尖锐批评， 信息和假设我们已经知道哪些技能减少 儿童易受性虐待。 获得更详细的和 关于虐待情况下发生的情况的系统信息， 施虐者用来吸引和维持受害者的技术 被建议作为加强儿童性行为基础的一种手段， 防止虐待计划。 这项建议提供了一种解决办法， 这些问题与以前被忽视的高风险群体：12 - 17岁 老女人 这一系列研究的主要目标是建立一个经验数据 反映儿童犯罪者行为模式的基础， 导致性虐待行为发生期间和之后 信息 将从受害者、被监禁的罪犯和非 被监禁的罪犯关于内部和外部的作案手法， 家庭罪犯 这项调查将分为两个阶段。 第一阶段将 完成一套旨在衡量 家庭内外受害者和犯罪者的作案手法。 相 2个将利用多个数据收集站点（地理分布 美国大陆）。从内部和外部获取数据， 家庭受害者和犯罪者对罪犯的儿童性虐待 作案手法 结果还将提供有关程度的见解 犯罪者对他们使用威胁和胁迫的情况报告不足， 他们的性犯罪。 调查结果将对以下方面产生影响： 预防方案;制定新方案;以及 受害者/肇事者评估和治疗。 两大预防 项目还同意审查研究结果， 并协助传播调查结果。

Child sexual abuse is recognized as a national problem which has reached epidemic proportions. Its impact can have devastating psychological and psychosocial effects on the victim's current and future functioning. School-based educational programs represent the most common approach to the prevention of child sexual abuse. Yet, such programs have recently come under sharp criticism for their over-reliance on anecdotal clinical information and the assumption that we already know which skills reduce children's vulnerability to sexual abuse. Obtaining more detailed and systematic information regarding what happens in abusive situations and which techniques abusers use to engage and maintain their victims has been suggested as a means of enhancing the foundation of child sexual abuse prevention programs. This proposal offers a means of addressing these issues with a previously neglected, high risk group: 12-17 year old females. The primary goal of this series of studies is to create an empirical data base reflecting patterns of behavior that child perpetrators engage in, leading up to, during, and following sexually abusive acts. Information will be obtained from victims, incarcerated offenders, and non- incarcerated offenders regarding the modus operandi of intra- and extra- familial offenders. This investigation will be divided into two phases. Phase 1 will complete the development of a set of instruments intended to measure modus operandi of intra- and extra-familial victims and offenders. Phase 2 will utilize multiple data collection sites (geographically distributed around the continental U.S.) to obtain data from intra- and extra- familial victims and perpetrators regarding offenders' child sexual abuse modus operandi. Results will also offer insights regarding the extent to which offenders under-report their use of threats and coercion in the commission of their sexual offenses. Findings will have implications for: the evaluation of existing prevention programs; the development of new programs; and victim/perpetrator assessment and treatment. Two major prevention programs have also agreed to review study results for integration into their curricula and to assist in the dissemination of findings.