Does Victim Age Differentiate Between Perpetrators of Sexual Child Abuse? A Study of Mental Health, Psychosocial Circumstances, and Crimes
| Autor: | Anita Carlstedt, Sune Innala, Henrik Anckarsäter, Thomas Nilsson, Björn Hofvander, Agneta Brimse |
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| Rok vydání: | 2009 |
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Child abuse medicine.medical_specialty Adolescent Poison control Child Behavior Disorders Severity of Illness Index Suicide prevention Occupational safety and health Risk Factors Forensic psychiatry medicine Humans Child Psychiatry Pedophilia Crime Victims General Psychology Criminal Psychology Sweden Motivation Chi-Square Distribution Mental Disorders Age Factors Infant Child Abuse Sexual social sciences Forensic Psychiatry Mental health Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders Psychiatry and Mental health Incest Child Preschool Sexual orientation Female Psychology Psychosocial Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | Sexual Abuse. 21:442-454 |
| ISSN: | 1573-286X 1079-0632 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/1079063209346699 |
| Popis: | To test the theory that sexual offenders who abuse very young children (0-5 years) have more severe mental health and psychosocial problems than those who victimize older children, authors compared psychiatric diagnoses, social circumstances, and crime-related data in all sexual offenders against minors referred to forensic psychiatric investigation in Sweden during a 5-year period. Thirty-one men had committed index crimes involving victims between the ages of 0 and 5 years (Group 1), 90 had 6-to 11-year-old victims (Group 2), and 41 had 12- to 15-year-old victims (Group 3). All three offender groups were characterized by severe mental health problems, in many cases fulfilling American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (4th ed.) criteria for both Axis I and Axis II diagnoses, but these problems did not differ between groups. Neither did social situation or sexual orientation. Offenders with 0- to 5-year-old victims significantly more often abused both boys and girls. Frequencies of retrospectively diagnosed childhood-onset behavior disorders were high in all three offender groups. The authors’ data did not support previous findings of increasingly severe mental health problems with decreasing victim age. |
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