Female Sexual Abuse and Criminal Justice Intervention: A Comparison of Child Protective Service and Criminal Justice Samples

Autor/inn/en	Bader, Shannon M.; Scalora, Mario J.; Casady, Thomas K.; Black, Shannon
Titel	Female Sexual Abuse and Criminal Justice Intervention: A Comparison of Child Protective Service and Criminal Justice Samples
Quelle	In: Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal, 32 (2008) 1, S.111-119 (9 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0145-2134
DOI	10.1016/j.chiabu.2007.04.014
Schlagwörter	Sexual Abuse; Child Abuse; Females; Criminals; Child Welfare; Law Enforcement; Juvenile Justice; Victims of Crime; Intervention; Comparative Analysis; Social Services; Age Differences; Gender Differences; Cooperation + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Sexueller Missbrauch; Abuse of children; Abuse; Child; Children; Kindesmissbrauch; Missbrauch; Kind; Kinder; Weibliches Geschlecht; Straftäter; Kindeswohl; Gesetzesvollzug; Jugendgerichtshilfe; Victim; Victims; Crime; Opfer; Verbrechen; Social service; Soziale Dienstleistung; Soziale Dienste; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Geschlechterkonflikt; Co-operation; Kooperation
Abstract	Objective: The current study compared a sample of female perpetrators reported to Child Protective Services (CPS) to a sample of women from the criminal justice system. Instead of examining a clinical or criminal justice sample in isolation, this comparison allows a more accurate description of female sexual offending. Methods: Cases were drawn from a Midwestern state's child abuse registry, law enforcement records, and sex offender registry. The CPS sample consisted of 179 women, and the criminal justice system sample consisted of 57 women. All cases were reported to the agencies between 1994 and 2004. Results: Victims ranged in age from 1 to 18 years old (M=9.98, SD=4.37). As hypothesized, there were statistically significant differences between the CPS and criminal justice samples. Specifically, the CPS sample had a majority of victims under age 12 (74.9%), while the criminal justice sample had a majority of victims between ages 13 and 19 (73.8%). The CPS sample had predominantly intrafamilial victims (97.8%), while the criminal justice sample had a majority of extrafamilial victims (63.3%). The CPS sample also showed significantly more female victims (63.7%), while the criminal justice sample had mostly male victims (62.1%). Conclusions: There were significant differences in the victim's age, the victim's gender and the perpetrator-victim relationship between cases managed in the CPS and the criminal justice system. The results highlight the need for further research into child welfare and law enforcement collaboration. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10