A Review on The Perpetrators of Child Abuse

Abstract

A review of the studies related to the perpetrators of child abuse revealed that each minimal unit of human being has the potential to perpetrate. Based on this, the present study aimed to comprehend the factors of vulnerability among the perpetrators of the child abuse. The study followed a method of investigating through the reviews of articles and research papers, on the issues of child abuse and perpetrations, published between 1994 and 2015, open source. The identified factors of vulnerability included age, family climate, personality, victim-to-victimizer cycle and opponent process hypothesis. However, identification of the factors shall not mislead anybody to consider the potential to be vulnerable or to be good as dichotomous, because it is multidimensional. Notably, the vulnerable individuals are a risk to the society, for it may generate a victim at any instant. There is a gap in the current literature regarding the methods that could be introduced to reduce the vulnerability to perpetrate. To fill this gap, first thing that has to be done is to have a shift in focus. Current literature is giving more focus on strengthening the potential victims. Instead, methods to intensify the value strengths of the perpetrators are to be focused here after. A model that may become the base of such an approach is designed and presented on the basis of Values in Action classification.

The Demographic Profile of the Female Assailant: A Ten-Year Background Review of Female Perpetrators Committing Abuse Seen at the Philippine General Hospital Child Protection Unit from January 2008 to December 2018

“…7 A review on the perpetrators of child abuse done by Santhosh in 2016 noted that any human being is capable of abuse, but risk factors include age: on the average at late 20s to early 30s, circumstances during abuse such as the victim being alone with the perpetrator, personality type including lack of self-confidence and reduced impulse control, and history of childhood abuse. 8 Studies on female perpetrators are very limited, since they are usually labeled as the victim. A study in Canada in 2017 on female assailants in child sexual abuse cases reported that majority of victims were of female gender with age approximately 10 years old and were mostly a member of the family.…”

Systematic Review of Child Abuse Perpetrators Worldwide: Characteristics and Risk Factors

“…The characteristics of a perpetrator were based on 3 levels: individual, relationship and community. Since decades ago, the characteristics of a child abuse perpetrator have been classified into different categories (30,31). Nevertheless, they still fall into similar context of classification across the diverse groups of characteristics.…”

Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process to Solve the Child Abuse Problem

“…Perpetrators Santhosh (2016) in his research that correlated to the perpetrators of child abuse exposed that every person could be vulnerable to these abuses. Besides, the annual statistic report Department of Social Welfare under the section of children in need of care and protection stated that the perpetrator could be parents, child's partner, caregivers, child's relatives, step-parent or foster parents, and others.…”