Mothers as perpetrators and bystanders of child sexual abuse

Gerke, Jelena; Lipke, Kathrin; Fegert, Jörg M.; Rassenhofer, Miriam

doi:10.1016/j.chiabu.2021.105068

Cited by 17 publications

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“…For example, Skopp et al (2007) found that maternal warmth was protective against partner-to-mother aggression on children’s externalizing functioning, while higher partner warmth was associated with greater externalizing problems, suggesting that the source of sensitive caregiving matters in conferring protection. Additionally, although biological mothers are less often the perpetrators of specific forms of threat (e.g., sexual abuse), their role as perpetrators or bystanders is not negligible and may be underestimated (Gerke et al, 2021). When a parent is a perpetrator or bystander of their child’s exposure to ELA, can they also serve as effective buffers against ELA?…”

Section: Sensitivitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Toward a dimensional model of family-based resilience: Sensitivity, stimulation, and stability as moderators of early-life adversity.

Martini¹,

Li²,

Wright³

et al. 2022

Canadian Psychology / Psychologie canadienne

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Public Significance StatementUnderstanding the factors that foster resilience among children exposed to adversity is a pressing public health challenge. This article proposes a dimensional model of family-level sources of resilience, including sensitivity, stimulation, and stability, that allow children to adapt when confronted with risk. Through a review of the literature, this article concludes that these family-based resilience factors confer protection against experiences of general psychosocial risk and severe adversity, and thus underscore possible targets for prevention and early intervention.

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Section: Sensitivitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Toward a dimensional model of family-based resilience: Sensitivity, stimulation, and stability as moderators of early-life adversity.

Martini¹,

Li²,

Wright³

et al. 2022

Canadian Psychology / Psychologie canadienne

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“…This reflects the troubling reality that most rapes are committed by people known to the victim (family members, friends, partners, coworkers, etc.) [25,31], in contrast to the common rape myth that most perpetrators of sexual assault are strangers [41].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Thirdly, TFMNs combine multiple semantic frames that sometimes make it challenging to achieve a single, unique interpretation of the context in which individual concepts appear. For instance, in our work presented here, family members might also be bystanders or supporters [25], but we have no easy way to separate specific portions of semantic frames beyond modularity analyses (see also [51]). Future work could overcome this limitation by considering more advanced NLP methods mapping actors, actions, and consequences described in narratives.…”

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confidence: 97%

Voices of Rape: cognitive networks link passive voice usage to psychological distress in online narratives

Abramski,

Ciringione,

Rossetti

et al. 2023

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Past studies of sexual assault have found that passive voice descriptions of rape elicit an increased perception of victim responsibility in readers. Building on this, we investigate rape survivors' self-perceptions and perspectives, as disclosed online, in relation to passive voice vs. active voice usage. From roughly 65,000 posts written by over 17,000 users on Reddit’s r/sexualassault board, we group texts into a passive voice group and an active voice group, respectively. We then use textual forma mentis networks, a cognitive network science approach, to create network representations from text such that nodes represent words/concepts while links represent syntactic and semantic relationships between them. These network representations make it possible to investigate the structural linguistic, cognitive, and emotional patterns that are prevalent in passive voice and active voice narratives, respectively. Ranking nodes by closeness centrality and comparing across networks, we identify nodes that are significantly more central to one network compared to the other, thus identifying characteristic concepts that semantically differentiate the two groups of narratives. We then investigate the contexts of these concepts through an in-depth semantic frame analysis. We find that concepts related to psychological distress (e.g. PTSD, flashback) are significantly more central to the passive voice network, providing quantitative evidence of a link between passive voice usage and an increased focus on psychological distress. We also find that family members (e.g. parent, brother) are more central to the active voice network, suggesting a connection between active voice usage and an increased focus on others' roles in rape survivors’ experiences. Our quantitative results have important implications for rape survivors as well as mental health professionals regarding the link between language and mental health.

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“…Lielāka daļa seksuālas vardarbības pret bērniem notiek ģimenē, kur kādam no bērna tuviniekam, tam pašam vienam no vecākam ir bijis zināms, vai bija aizdomas, kad pret bērnu tiek veiktas seksuālā rakstura darbības, bet tam netika pievērsta uzmanība (Božko-Čače, 2019). Pētījumi liecina, ka bioloģiskā māte ir visbiežākais dzimumnozieguma pret bērniem novērotājs un liecinieks, un lielākoties gadījumu tieši māte pirmā pamana veikto pret bērnu seksuālo vardarbību (Gerke et al, 2021). KPL nesatur tādas norādes, kā rīkoties, ja nepilngadīgā cietušā pārstāvis ir zinājis, vai viņam bija aizdomas par dzimumnoziegumu pret bērnu, un viņš nav veicis nekādas darbības, lai novērstu pret bērnu vērstu dzimumnoziegumu.…”

Section: Nepilngadīgā Cietušā Statuss Kriminālprocesos (Krimināllietā...unclassified

Peculiarities of Interrogating Juvenile Victim in Pre-Trial Proceedings

Božko-Čače

2023

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The aim of the research is to study, analyse and discover issues of peculiarities of interrogating a juvenile, who has suffered from a criminal offense against morality and sexual integrity, in the pre-trial proceedings. The paper deals with study of the status of a juvenile victim in criminal proceedings concerning morality and sexual integrity and the related regulatory framework, as well as the procedure for interrogation of a juvenile victim who has suffered from a sexual offence. During the research it was concluded that the Criminal Procedure Law requires the following additions: to regulate the status of an especially protected victim during a trial and to provide for peculiarities of interrogating such victim during court investigation; to stipulate the right of a person directing the proceedings to change a representative of the victim, who has known or suspected a sexual offence against a child but failed to prevented it, throughout the criminal proceedings; to determine mandatory simultaneous participation of juvenile especially protected victim’s representative and provider of legal aid in all procedural actions, determine mandatory participation of a psychologist during interrogation of a juvenile victim; to provide for a full interrogation report instead of an overview to be prepared concerning investigatory activity recorded in the sound and image record, and the report shall contain all the facts established in the investigatory activity and its process.

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Mothers as perpetrators and bystanders of child sexual abuse

Cited by 17 publications

References 23 publications

Toward a dimensional model of family-based resilience: Sensitivity, stimulation, and stability as moderators of early-life adversity.

Toward a dimensional model of family-based resilience: Sensitivity, stimulation, and stability as moderators of early-life adversity.

Voices of Rape: cognitive networks link passive voice usage to psychological distress in online narratives

Peculiarities of Interrogating Juvenile Victim in Pre-Trial Proceedings

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