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Preventing child sexual abuse using picture books: the effect of book character and message framing
- Authors:
- HUANG Sangruo, CUI Chen
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, 29(4), 2020, pp.448-467.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
The aim of this study was to investigate whether and how a picture book preventing child sexual abuse can improve children’s self-protection skills. The study was conducted in China with Chinese children. In a 2 × 2 between-subjects design, character in the book (human versus animal) and message framing (gain versus loss) were manipulated. Compared to a baseline group who were not exposed to the prevention book, children in the experimental groups significantly enhanced their ability to recognize a potential abuse situation and refuse an inappropriate touch request. Results suggest that the prevention picture books are more effective when using a human character and a gain-framed message. The explanation for this was that human characters simulated children’s perceived norm and gain-framed messages increased children’s message recall, perceived self-efficacy and positive attitude toward the message, all of which in turn positively affected children’s self-protection skills. (Publisher abstract)
Promoting resilience in sexually abused children
- Author:
- PLEDGER Nicola
- Publisher:
- University of East Anglia. School of Social Work and Psychosocial Studies
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 70p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Norwich
Children disclosing sexual abuse (SA) display greater internalizing and externalizing behavioural difficulties as well as more sexualized behaviours relative to same-age non-abused peers. Mothers also reported these children as less socially competent than their peers. Family contextual factors appeared to be associated with behavioural difficulties and made a unique contribution to the prediction of externalizing and sexualized behaviours. Of the personal variables, avoidance coping was found to be linked to poorer outcomes. In examining possible factors linked to ‘resilient’ outcomes family conflict and avoidance coping were found to be associated to clinical status in children reporting SA.
Are children safer?
- Author:
- STUART Marian
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 18.11.04, 2004, pp.34-36.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Reports on a study into action taken on proposals in Sir William Utting's groundbreaking 'People like us' report to improve safeguards for children living away from home and the current status of safeguards. Looks into what policies have been developed and whether they are being implemented effectively. Identifies groups of children remaining very vulnerable and argues that a major rethink is needed on how to tackle child sexual abuse.
Children need more specialist help
- Author:
- GOVEAS Asha
- Journal article citation:
- Children Now, 17.11.04, 2004, p.12.
- Publisher:
- Haymarket
Finds out what needs to be done about the increased numbers of children showing sexually harmful behaviour and the threat of the problem becoming worse due to a lack of specialist services in many parts of the country.
Fear of the unknown
- Author:
- LEE Francis
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 30.6.94 Supplement, 1994, p.10.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Not all sexual abuse presents a risk of HIV infection, yet professionals are having to deal with requests for tests. Outlines Barnardo's recommendations for approaching this and explores the trust that needs to be established between the child and counsellor.
Finkelhor's risk factor checklist: a cross-validation study
- Authors:
- BERGNER Raymond M., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Child Abuse and Neglect, 18(4), April 1994, pp.331-340.
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
Re-examines Finkelhor's Risk Factor Checklist factors as predictors of childhood sexual abuse. Results indicate (a) that subjects reported a relatively high incidence, 24.3%, of childhood sexual abuse; and (b) that the eight factors comprising the Risk Factor Checklist, employed individually and collectively, did not strongly and significantly predict sexual victimization. Only one factor, low family income, proved predictive, while three other showed trends in the predicted direction.
A scoping review of child grooming strategies: pre- and post-internet
- Authors:
- RINGENBERG Tatiana R., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Child Abuse and Neglect, 123, 2022, p.105392.
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
Background: Researchers have studied the online sexual grooming of minors extensively since the early 2000s. However, the grooming process is neither new nor restricted to digital media. While grooming and child sexual abuse existed long before the Internet, the advent of the Internet has resulted in more ways in which offenders can interact with candidate victims including offline-only, online-only, and a mix of offline and online. Objective: This study conducted a scoping review of grooming strategies both pre- and post-Internet. Our goal was to enumerate strategies analysed in both time periods, provide similarities and differences, and discuss how changing datasets and technology have impacted the grooming process in both online and offline environments. Methods: a scoping review of peer-reviewed journal articles from 1970 to 2020 within PubMed, Medline, PsychInfo, and ERIC. This resulted in 19,679 unique articles. Titles and abstracts were screened resulting in 266 articles which were then read in full, resulting in 93 papers which qualified based on inclusion criteria. Results: Grooming strategies identified pre-Internet included: enticements, coercion, isolation, substance abuse, gradual sexualization, and secrecy. In comparison, the strategies identified post-Internet were: enticements, risk assessment, trust, sexualization, fantasy, secrecy, isolation, meeting, media progression, deception, coercion, substance use as a tool, authority, and repetition. Conclusions: While grooming strategies overlapped pre and post-Internet, the timing and scope of concepts differed. Additionally, grooming offline began to incorporate technology post-Internet which functioned to increase accessibility and isolation of the victim in a similar manner to online grooming. (Edited publisher abstract)
Grooming and seduction
- Author:
- DIETZ Park
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 33(1), 2018, pp.28-36.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Ken Lanning’s recollections of the origins of the use of the term “grooming” to refer to techniques used by acquaintances to gain sexual access to and control over children is an important contribution to the history of the significant recognition that many cases of child sexual abuse occur at the hands of offenders who are acquaintances of the child and who do not need to use force, threats, or violence to gain the compliance of their victims. That this recognition was slow in coming is obvious in retrospect, as is true of any social problem that remains hidden for centuries only to burst into public consciousness over the course of a few years. In this article, In this article the author reports the results of searches using Google Scholar to look at the introduction of this use of the term “grooming” to the peer-reviewed literature in 1984 and its increasing use through 2016. Since 2008, the usage has been adopted in hundreds of articles in the professional literature each year, suggesting that this usage of the term “grooming” will remain common in the decades ahead. The author also examines the history of the term “seduction” in the context of child sexual abuse, particularly two archaic uses of the term: as a euphemism for any sexual or sexually stimulating encounter between child and adult and in the context of suggestions that it was the child who seduced the adult. To avoid resurrecting any confusion over these issues, it would be a mistake to abandon “grooming” in favour of “seduction.” The author concludes that the best strategy may be that adopted by Lanning of using the terms grooming and seduction in tandem, explaining the parallels between the seduction of one adult by another and the grooming or seduction of a child by an adult. (Edited publisher abstract)
The evolution of grooming: concept and term
- Author:
- LANNING Kenneth
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 33(1), 2018, pp.5-16.
- Publisher:
- Sage
This discussion is not intended to be a detailed analysis of the complexities and dynamics of grooming. Instead, it will focus on the evolution of the concept and the term. More than an historical narrative, however, this evolution provides valuable insight into recognising the diverse nature of contact sex offences against children and important differences among types of cases. In this victimisation context, the term grooming generally refers to specific nonviolent techniques used by some child molesters to gain access to and control of their child victims. The techniques a child molester employs are most influenced by the relationship between the offender and the victim. Although acquaintance child molesters are sometimes violent, to avoid discovery, they tend to control their victims primarily through this seduction or grooming process. The author believe the term was first used by a group of law enforcement investigators beginning in the late 1970s to describe aspects of a seduction pattern of offender behaviour that was poorly understood by most professionals. The term grooming then evolved, as language does, and spread into more common usage by law enforcement, other professionals, and then by the media and laypersons. The term grooming has pretty much supplanted seduction as the term of choice for this behaviour pattern. Hopefully, understanding the evolution of the concept of grooming, the diversity of cases, the need for precise and consistent definitions, and the use of nonviolent grooming techniques to access and control victims will help interveners to better respond to and evaluate cases. (Edited publisher abstract)
On the origin of grooming
- Authors:
- BURGESS Ann Wolbert, HARTMAN Carol R.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 33(1), 2018, pp.17-23.
- Publisher:
- Sage
The concept of grooming has long been identified with language in child sexual abuse. This article reviews a brief history of child sexual abuse with regard to efforts to identify and classify abuser and victim behaviour. The authors examine the evolution of terms used to label different behaviours particularly those used to obtain initial control over the child victim including grooming. (Edited publisher abstract)