Literature review of international material publsihed in Eng 2000-2008. Published academic and policy-relevant research. Focus on internet-based social networking. some attention to wireless and mobile. Focus on Australia and evidence of nature and…
Child Abuse
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OBJECTIVE: To explore the experiences of victims of female sex offenders with regard to disclosing sexual abuse to a professional, and importantly, the impact of professional responses on victims. METHOD: The data were derived from one-to-one…
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OBJECTIVE: The presence of child pornography in peer-to-peer networks is not disputed, but there has been little effort done to quantify and analyze the distribution and nature of that content to-date. By performing an analysis of queries and query…
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The current study examines the effects of child internalizing and externalizing symptoms on increases in victimization over a 1-year period. Using longitudinal data from the Developmental Victimization Survey (DVS), analyses are based on a national…
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To determine the rate and risk of clinical and personality disorders diagnosed in childhood and adulthood in those known to have been sexually abused during childhood.
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Confessions are routinely offered as evidence and are potentially damning to defendants. However, not all confessions are truthful. Suspects can be coerced into falsely confessing to crimes that they did not commit, and in a subset of cases, the…
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An important question in the legal context is how suggested statements about fictitious events develop over a course of various interviews. Sixty-seven first-graders were interviewed four times about one real and one fictitious event, applying…
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One hundred alleged victims of child sexual abuse (aged 4-13; M = 9.3 years) were interviewed by police investigators about their alleged experiences. Half of the children were interviewed using the National Institute of Child Health and Human…
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OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this paper was to compare the prevalence rates of child sexual abuse reported by Finkelhor, D. (1994). The international epidemiology of child sexual abuse. Child Abuse & Neglect, 18 (5), 409-417 with those found in recent…
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We study sex offences carried out by groups of juveniles, focusing on offender characteristics and the interaction patterns within offender groups and between offenders and victims. Using reconstructions of offences from court files as well as…
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Objective: This study examined the prevalence and psychological sequelae of childhood sexual and physical abuse in adults from the general population. Method: A national sampling service generated a geographically stratified, random sample of 1,442…
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This study examines offender-victim interactions in 223 cases of sexual violence committed within gangs. Cases were derived from arcHIVal sources, such as law reports. Overall, four interpersonal themes (dominance, submission, cooperation, and…
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An introduction to internet child porn (focusing on paedophiles only), typologies of users and abusers, types of methods used, effects on victims etc. Police-oriented and pretty simple.
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This national survey of youth, ages 10 to 17, and their caretakers has several implications for the current debate about young people and Internet pornography. Twenty five percent of youth had unwanted exposure to sexual pictures on the Internet in…
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The sexual abuse of children is a public health issue, due to the high epidemic incidence and lo the serious damages for the victims' development. The dynamic of this kind of violence is complex, involving psychological, social and legal aspects.…
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Senior LecturerBar Ilan University, School of Social Work