Masculinity and femininity in male and female perpetrators of child sexual abuse

1994 ◽  
Vol 18 (9) ◽  
pp. 763-767 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henry L. Pothast ◽  
Craig M. Allen
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Child Sexual Abuse ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Masculinity And Femininity ◽  
Female Perpetrators

scholarly journals Female perpetrators of child sexual abuse: characteristics of the offender and victim

2013 ◽  
Vol 20 (8) ◽  
pp. 769-780 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ashling Bourke ◽  
Sally Doherty ◽  
Orla McBride ◽  
Karen Morgan ◽  
Hannah McGee
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Child Sexual Abuse ◽  
Female Perpetrators ◽  
Abuse Characteristics ◽  
Sexual Abuse Characteristics

Speaking the Unspeakable: Exploring the Impact of Family Dynamics on Child Sexual Abuse Disclosures

2005 ◽  
Vol 86 (2) ◽  
pp. 227-234 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ramona Alaggia ◽  
Stacey Kirshenbaum
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Child Sexual Abuse ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Family Dynamics ◽  
Retrospective Data ◽  
Family Assessment ◽  
Indirect Communication ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Interview Method ◽  
The Impact

This qualitative study utilized the long interview method to identify a range of family dynamics that may affect a child's ability to disclose sexual abuse. It is estimated that 30% to 80% of victims do not purposefully disclose child sexual abuse (CSA) before adulthood. Retrospective data about disclosure processes were elicited through interviews with 20 male and female CSA survivors. Four major themes emerged suggesting that CSA disclosure can be significantly compromised when certain conditions exist: rigidly fixed, gender roles based on a patriarchy-based family structure; family violence; closed, indirect communication patterns; and social isolation. It is important to identify disclosure barriers in order to ameliorate them effectively, because when children are not able to disclose sexual abuse, the effects are potentially devastating. Results are discussed in relation to implications for practice with children and their families, including relevance of established models of family assessment.

Female perpetrators of child sexual abuse

1999 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 93-106 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alana D. Grayston ◽  
Rayleen V. De Luca
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Child Sexual Abuse ◽  
Female Perpetrators

Malpractice & Negligence: State Supreme Courts Limit Therapists’ Duties to Third Parties

1999 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 204-205
Author(s):  
Megan Cleary
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Child Sexual Abuse ◽  
Supreme Court ◽  
New Hampshire ◽  
Third Parties ◽  
State Supreme Courts ◽  
Recovered Memories ◽  
Supreme Courts ◽  
Repressed Memory ◽  
University Of Colorado

In recent years, the law in the area of recovered memories in child sexual abuse cases has developed rapidly. See J.K. Murray, “Repression, Memory & Suggestibility: A Call for Limitations on the Admissibility of Repressed Memory Testimony in Abuse Trials,” University of Colorado Law Review, 66 (1995): 477-522, at 479. Three cases have defined the scope of liability to third parties. The cases, decided within six months of each other, all involved lawsuits by third parties against therapists, based on treatment in which the patients recovered memories of sexual abuse. The New Hampshire Supreme Court, in Hungerford v. Jones, 722 A.2d 478 (N.H. 1998), allowed such a claim to survive, while the supreme courts in Iowa, in J.A.H. v. Wadle & Associates, 589 N.W.2d 256 (Iowa 1999), and California, in Eear v. Sills, 82 Cal. Rptr. 281 (1991), rejected lawsuits brought by nonpatients for professional liability.

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