Profiling parental child sex abuse / Jane Goodman-Delahunty.

Canberra : Australian Institute of Criminology, 2014.

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Child sexual abuse.

Parent and child.

Criminal behavior, Prediction of.

Public policy initiatives to redress parental child sexual offenders have been hindered by the absence of an offending profile that characterises this core group of intrafamilial offenders. Drawing on data from a sample of 213 offenders, this study augments knowledge about sex offender typologies by identifying ten key descriptive features of parental offenders. The findings revealed that parental sex offenders have a distinctive profile unlike that of other child sexual offenders and are more criminally versatile than presupposed. This may provide useful information to support clinical practice and preventive interventions aimed at increasing offender desistance and reducing threats to the safety and welfare of young children and their families.

Title from title caption of PDF document (viewed on March 10, 2014).

"January 2014".

Includes bibliographical references (p. 7-8).

1836-2206