Preventing Childhood Sexual Abuse: An Ecological Approach

Kenny, Maureen C.; Wurtele, Sandy K.

doi:10.1080/10538712.2012.675567

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“…To date, few sexual abuse prevention approaches have employed strategies to modify high risk environments (Kenny & Wurtele, 2012). Our findings reinforce the importance of creating safer environments, in addition to creating safer individuals.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 76%

Similarities and differences in adolescence-onset versus adulthood-onset sexual abuse incidents

McKillop

Brown

Smallbone

et al. 2015

Child Abuse & Neglect

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 76%

Similarities and differences in adolescence-onset versus adulthood-onset sexual abuse incidents

McKillop

Brown

Smallbone

et al. 2015

Child Abuse & Neglect

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“…Recent evidence emerging from the United States demonstrates an interest in working across the causes and treatments domains in that Letourneau et al (2009) are working to establish treatment practices which account for the traumatic experiences of many children who sexually abuse. Other US authors have begun to engage with the public health model of prevention, as well as with a model known as the Spectrum of Prevention (Kenny & Wurtele 2012). In the United Kingdom, authors have established sound evidence in the characteristics domain, and are now drawing on that evidence to inform service delivery to children who sexually abuse as reported in the treatments domain (Masson & Hackett 2003, Hackett et al 2013a.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Prevention-enhancing interactions: a Critical Interpretive Synthesis of the evidence about children who sexually abuse other children

McKibbin

Humphreys

Hamilton

2015

Health Soc Care Community

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There is a growing interest in English‐speaking jurisdictions, including Australia, North America, Canada, the United Kingdom and New Zealand, about the prevention of sexual abuse perpetrated by children against other children. The aim of this review was to identify opportunities for research, policy and practice which could enhance the prevention agenda relating to the perpetration of sexual abuse by children through conducting a Critical Interpretive Synthesis. Eleven electronic databases were searched in the period from 22 April to 23 May 2013 and included: SocINDEX, Social Services Abstracts, Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts, Family and Society Studies Worldwide, Project Muse, PsychINFO, Family and Society Plus, Jstor, Expanded Academic ASAP, Web of Science and Google Scholar. Key individual journals were also searched, including Child Abuse and Neglect and the Journal of Interpersonal Violence, as well as the grey literature. The search was guided by the research question: How could the prevention agenda relating to sexual abuse perpetrated by children be enhanced? The systematic literature search yielded 3323 titles, and 34 of these papers were included in the final synthesis. The authors identified five domains operating in the evidence base: characteristics, causes, communications, interventions and treatments. A synthesising construct emerged from the review: prevention‐enhancing interactions. This construct referred to the potential for enhancing the prevention agenda which exists as the evidence domains interact with one another, and with the public health model of prevention. The authors consider this review to be a timely contribution to the current agenda pertaining to sexual abuse perpetrated by children. It provides researchers, policy makers and practitioners in the field with an evidence‐informed conceptualisation of opportunities for enhancing prevention work.

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“…Understanding the unique childhood risk factors for pedophilic interests may assist in early identification of atrisk youth and guide the development of prevention and intervention efforts. Findings also call for interventions to prevent all forms of child maltreatment (especially childhood sexual victimization; see Kenny & Wurtele, 2012;Wurtele, 2009Wurtele, , 2012, domestic violence exposure, and negative parenting in the general population as a means to prevent the sexual victimization of children.…”

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Sexual Interest in Children Among an Online Sample of Men and Women

Wurtele

Simons²,

Moreno

2013

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The purpose of the present study was to explore the extent to which men and women in the general population report sexual interest in children and to examine distinct developmental experiences associated with self-reported sexual interest. Participants (262 females and 173 males) were recruited online and completed a questionnaire assessing sexual interest and adverse childhood experiences. Among men, 6% indicated some likelihood of having sex with a child if they were guaranteed they would not be caught or punished, as did 2% of women. Nine percent of males and 3% of females indicated some likelihood of viewing child pornography on the Internet. Overall, nearly 10% of males and 4% of females reported some likelihood of having sex with children or viewing child pornography. Males and females with any sexual interest in children reported higher likelihoods of engaging in other antisocial or criminal behaviors and also reported more dysfunctional childhoods (i.e., histories of sexual abuse, insecure parent-child attachments). Theoretical implications of the findings and suggestions for preventing the sexual victimization of children are provided.

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Preventing Childhood Sexual Abuse: An Ecological Approach

Cited by 57 publications

References 9 publications

Similarities and differences in adolescence-onset versus adulthood-onset sexual abuse incidents

Similarities and differences in adolescence-onset versus adulthood-onset sexual abuse incidents

Prevention-enhancing interactions: a Critical Interpretive Synthesis of the evidence about children who sexually abuse other children

Sexual Interest in Children Among an Online Sample of Men and Women

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