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Profiling the sexually abusive behaviour of men with intellectual disabilities
- Author:
- THOMPSON David
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 10(2), 1997, pp.125-139.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Presents a statistical analysis of the offences allegedly committed by a sample of men with intellectual disabilities and the responses they received. The most common victims are shown to be people with intellectual disabilities, women staff, and children and women in the general public. There was also variation between the nature of the offences across victim groups, with people with intellectual disabilities being on the receiving end of the most serious forms of assault. The responses to the men were not found to be correlated with the nature of the sexual abuse but to whom was abused: the abuse of children and women in the general public giving rise to the strongest responses. Protection of victims from subsequent abuse was also related to this specific variable, here people with intellectual disabilities and women staff gained the least protection. Also draws attention to the high proportion of men receiving intellectual disability services who appear not to have intellectual disabilities and the poor level of risk management of men with histories of sexually abusing.
A prevalence study of sexual abuse of adults with intellectual disabilities referred for sex education
- Authors:
- McCARTHY Michelle, THOMPSON David
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 10(2), 1997, pp.105-124.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Reports on a prevalence study of sexual abuse of women and men with intellectual disabilities who were referred for sex education. The prevalence rate of abuse was found to be significantly higher for women than men. Almost all perpetrators were men, with the majority being men with intellectual disabilities or fathers. Women are shown to experience the sexual contact more negatively than the men, although it was usual for both the women and men to feel quite ambivalent about the perpetrator and what he had done to them. Typically the abuse was revealed by the victims themselves, but they were unaware of its social meaning. Generally responses to the abuse were very weak, however there is evidence that the abuse of men is taken more seriously.