在美国接触儿童性虐待受害者的流行:犯罪类型和队列差异
Luciana C Assini-Meytin1, Rebecca L Fix1, Yi Sun1
1Department of Mental Health, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Child maltreatment
|March 13, 2026
概括
儿童性虐待 (CSA) 影响超过20%的成年人,大多数罪行是由已知的个人犯下的. 与老年人相比,年轻人的CSA犯罪率在年轻人中较高.
科学领域:
- 社会科学 社会科学 社会科学
- 心理学 心理学 心理学
- 犯罪学 犯罪学
背景情况:
- 儿童性虐待 (CSA) 是一个重大的公共卫生问题,具有持久的影响.
- 了解CSA受害的流行和特征对于预防和干预工作至关重要.
研究的目的:
- 调查美国接触儿童性虐待 (CSA) 受害者的流行情况.
- 为了比较两组成年人之间的CSA受害行为类型和趋势.
主要方法:
- 利用了来自两个全国代表性成年人群 (年龄在18-22岁和32-36岁) 的数据.
- 用于流行率估计的使用加权比例和罗-斯科特基平方测试用于队列比较.
- 根据性别分层进行的分析.
主要成果:
- 整体CSA受害率为21.7%,在队列之间没有显著差异.
- 成年人的虐待发生在9.7%,18岁以下的年轻人发生在16.9%的案件中.
- 年轻人犯下的CSA在年轻人群中 (18.8%) 比老年人群 (15.1%) 高.
- 在年轻人群中,与老年人群相比,成年人和年轻人的家庭内虐待在年轻人群中的女性中下降.
结论:
- 在成年人群中,CSA的患病率保持一致,但犯罪年龄和关系动态的趋势正在出现.
- 强调需要针对犯罪者的年龄和与幸存者的关系进行量身定制的预防策略.
- 调查结果强调了性别特定分析对于理解CSA受害模式的重要性.
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