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- Title
Cinsel İstismar Suçlusu Olarak Çocuk ve Ergenler: Olgu Serisi.
- Authors
Göker, Zeynep; Aktepe, Evrim; Hesapçıoğlu, Selma Tural; Kandil, Sema Tanrıöver
- Abstract
Sexual violence occurs throughout the world and it has a profound impact on physical or mental health. Conservative estimates indicate that between 15% and 20% of all sexual offenses are committed by youth younger than 18. Despite there are studies for adult sex offenders, there is insufficient investigation into the characteristics of juvenile sexual perpetrators. Juvenile perpetrators constitute the part of the all sexual offenses. Past research has shown that some adult sexual perpetrators were sexual offender when she/or he was child or adolescent. Therefore if this cases evaluate for sexual offence in child or adolescent period, the behavior of sexual offence is impeded. The aim of this study was to assess 12 juvenile sex offenders and to evaluate their sociodemographic features between 2005 to 2007 at seen in our department. In our series, the average age of perpetrators was 13.5 years of age, the majority of them were male, the majority of the victims were 6 years old. The most offence type was molestation. The most psychiatric disorder was conduct disorder. In mothers there was mood disorders, in fathers there was alcohol dependency. The most cases had lower socieconomic level and lower parent educational status. Besides the forensic process, treatment and intervention programs for juvenile perpetrators may benefit to understand the nature of sexual deliquency behavior.
- Subjects
JUVENILE sex offenders; SEX crimes; CHILD sexual abuse; CONDUCT disorders in adolescence; AFFECTIVE disorders; CHILDREN of people with alcoholism; SOCIODEMOGRAPHIC factors
- Publication
Klinik Psikiyatri Dergisi, 2009, Vol 12, Issue 3, p141
- ISSN
1302-0099
- Publication type
Article