An Epidemiologic Approach to the Study of Child Molestation

Finkelhor, David; Lewis, I. A.

doi:10.1111/j.1749-6632.1988.tb50852.x

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“…Finkelhor and Lewis (1988) asked a national sample of United States adult males whether they had ever molested a child, and 17% said yes. The Committee on Sexual Offences against Children and Youth (1984) conducted national surveys in Canada to determine the frequency of child molestation, concluding that onehalf of Canadian females and one-third of Canadian males had been sexually victimized, and that over four-fifths of these assaults occurred prior to the victim turning 18 years of age.…”

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Current issues in the assessment and treatment of sexual offenders

Marshall

Serran

2000

Clin. Psychol. Psychother.

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The present paper reviews what is currently known about sexual abuse and the treatment of the offenders. Sexual offending is primarily committed by males and as many as 50% of females and 33% of males are sexually victimized in some way during their life. While some of these acts involve minimally intrusive behaviours (e.g. exhibitionists), many involve forced vaginal or anal intercourse and varying degrees of associated physical violence and deliberate humiliation of the victim. The effects on the victim can be severe and long-lasting. Current theories of the aetiology of these behaviours incorporate biological and developmental factors occurring within a socio-cultural context that fails to discourage sexual abuse. Experience is said to create a vulnerability that in some men finds expression in sexually abusive behaviour. Appropriate assessment targets the issues that are addressed in treatment, including: cognitive distortions, sexual behaviours and attitudes, social functioning and substance abuse. In addition, treatment also attempts to generate a set of relapse prevention plans for each offender. NATURE AND PREVALENCE OF THE OFFENCESSexual offences include a variety of behaviours, such as exhibitionism, frotteurism, voyeurism, child molestation, and sexual assault. This article will be restricted to child molestation (both extrafamilial and incest) and sexual assault of women. Although women (Matthews, 1998) and children (Johnson, 1998) also commit sexual offences, males constitute the majority of offenders and will be the focus of this article.

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Current issues in the assessment and treatment of sexual offenders

Marshall

Serran

2000

Clin. Psychol. Psychother.

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“…These studies 22 demonstrate that a significant proportion of the 'normal' male population believe it acceptable to carry out a sexual assault and report the likelihood of doing so if they could be assured of not being detected or punished. Around 28 per cent has reported having actually carried out forced sexual assaults against women (Rapaport and Burkhart, 1984); whilst 10 per cent claimed to have engaged in coercive sex with children (Finkelhor and Lewis, 1988). Within this context, it is easy to understand why the women's movements have called attention to hegemonic masculinity and its links to men's harmful and dangerous behaviour, while male dominated institutions and organisations have largely ignored it.…”

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“…(Finkelhor and Lewis, 1988;Levy, 1991;Kirkwood, 1992;Brannan et al, 1993;Kilgallon, 1995;White and Hait, 1995).…”

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Masking Hegemonic Masculinity: Reconstructing the Paedophile as the Dangerous Stranger

Cowburn¹,

Dominelli²

2001

British Journal of Social Work

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“…Do you rent the place where you live? (selected with probability 1 ) p) (question from the study by Finkelhor and Lewis, 1988). Respondents have to use a randomiser, for instance dice or coins, to decide which of these two questions has to be answered.…”

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“…Studies are conducted in the areas of health care (Volicer and Volicer, 1982) and alcohol and drug abuse (Weissman et al, 1986;Fisher, et al, 1992), as well as on attitudes (Antonak and Livneh, 1995), on sexual behaviour (Williams and Suen, 1994;Jarman, 1997) on child molestation (Finkelhor and Lewis, 1988) and on welfare (Heijden et al, 1998).…”

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How to Improve the Efficiency of Randomised Response Designs

2005

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Abstract. This paper describes ways to maximise the efficiency of randomised response designs. When randomised response designs become more efficient their value as a tool to study sensitive topics will increase. An overview of the literature shows that when sensitive or incriminating topics are studied, the overall results of randomised response studies are more valid than the results of direct question designs. This positive effect is small, however, and randomised response designs are known to be less efficient than direct question designs, making it necessary to recruit larger samples. In this paper the efficiency of six randomised response methods (Warner's design, both forms of the unrelated question technique, the forced response technique, Moors's design and Mangat's improved model) will be compared relative to direct question designs. Using the right design parameters we can make randomised response studies up to twice as efficient. The forced response method and a special form of the unrelated question design are the most efficient designs until now.

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An Epidemiologic Approach to the Study of Child Molestation

Cited by 20 publications

References 17 publications

Current issues in the assessment and treatment of sexual offenders

Current issues in the assessment and treatment of sexual offenders

Masking Hegemonic Masculinity: Reconstructing the Paedophile as the Dangerous Stranger

How to Improve the Efficiency of Randomised Response Designs

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