How Children Stop Adult Perpetrators From Unwanted Touching Within an Institutional Setting: Termination Patterns During Sexual Contact Stage.

IF 1.1 4区医学 Q3 CRIMINOLOGY & PENOLOGY

Violence and Victims Pub Date : 2024-09-24 DOI:10.1891/VV-2023-0065

Leah Shon

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This qualitative study analyzes victims' narratives of male-on-male child molestation within the Boy Scouts of America. The focus of previous literature on sex crime victims mostly centered on how to avoid sex offenders based on the offenders' behaviors and effective victims' treatment plans to alleviate their posttrauma as a result of sexual abuse. Yet studies have not provided detailed descriptions of when and how to resist sexual advances to children when such incidents are in progress within youth-oriented institutions. Few have examined victim narratives to discover the dynamics of child molestation, such as physical and verbal interactions between the two parties while sexual touching is occurring. The author used victims' narratives to identify how boy victims responded to unwanted sexual advances by scout leaders within the Boy Scouts of America. Based on qualitative-oriented analysis, this study presents verbal and physical resisting patterns of male victims and the effectiveness of such actions in terminating sexual advances. The findings suggest practical and potential intervention strategies so children know how to stop adult perpetrators from developing unwanted touching within youth-centric institutions.

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在机构环境中，儿童如何阻止施暴成人的不当触摸：性接触阶段的终止模式。

本定性研究分析了受害者对美国童子军中男童对男童的猥亵行为的叙述。以往关于性犯罪受害者的文献主要集中在如何根据罪犯的行为避开性犯罪者，以及有效的受害者治疗计划，以减轻他们因性虐待而造成的创伤后遗症。然而，对于在面向青少年的机构中发生此类事件时，何时以及如何抵制对儿童的性挑逗，研究并未提供详细描述。很少有研究通过研究受害者的叙述来发现猥亵儿童的动态过程，例如在发生性接触时双方的身体和语言互动。作者利用受害者的叙述来确定受害男孩是如何应对美国童子军中的童子军领袖对其进行的不受欢迎的性挑逗的。基于定性分析，本研究介绍了男性受害者的言语和肢体抵抗模式，以及这些行为在终止性挑逗方面的有效性。研究结果提出了切实可行的潜在干预策略，使儿童知道如何在以青少年为中心的机构中阻止成人施暴者进行不受欢迎的接触。

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Violence and Victims CRIMINOLOGY & PENOLOGY-

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期刊介绍： We all face the difficult problem of understanding and treating the perpetrators and victims of violence behavior. Violence and Victims is the evidence-based resource that informs clinical decisions, legal actions, and public policy. Now celebrating its 25th year, Violence and Victims is a peer-reviewed journal of theory, research, policy, and clinical practice in the area of interpersonal violence and victimization. It seeks to facilitate the exchange of information on this subject across such professional disciplines as psychology, sociology, criminology, law, medicine, nursing, psychiatry, and social work.