Psychological complaints reported by sexually abused children during criminal investigations: Istanbul example

Doğangün, Burak; Gönültaş, Burak Miraç; Uzun-Oğuz, Esin; Oral, Gökhan; Öztürk, Meral

doi:10.1016/j.chiabu.2016.04.010

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“…Sexual molestation irreversibly harms victims physically and/or psychologically no matter what the specific circumstances of the events are (Doğangün, Gönültaş, Uzun-Oğuz, Oral, & Öztürk, 2016). Considering the high rate of repetition in molestation incidents, it is vitally important to find and put these offenders behind the bars as soon as possible (Leclerc, Wortley, & Smallbone, 2010).…”

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Event Locations in Extra-Familial Child Sexual Molestation Cases: The Istanbul Example

Gönültaş

Sahin

2016

Int J Offender Ther Comp Criminol

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A great deal of attention has been devoted to sexual molestation cases, both in theory and in practice. Child molesters are versatile and are not easily identified. Various theories and tactics, the most contemporary of which is environmental criminology, have been developed to find those criminals. Locations of victims, crime scenes, and distances among them as well as other situational variables are used to predict possible future offences in environmental criminology. This study applies the theory to sexual molestation crimes in Istanbul. Dependent distance variables are found to be correlated with several situational variables in a selected sample of 127 extra-familial child sexual molestation cases.

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Event Locations in Extra-Familial Child Sexual Molestation Cases: The Istanbul Example

Gönültaş

Sahin

2016

Int J Offender Ther Comp Criminol

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“…In the process of investigating sexual abuse, the victims’ statements have a critical importance for both identifying and understanding the nature of the offense and for legal and rehabilitation purposes (prosecutorial and judicial processes, psychological treatment, and rehabilitation of the victims, etc.) (American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Child Abuse and Neglect, 1999; Doğangün et al, 2016). Hence, according to the relevant Turkish law, the process of obtaining the victims’ statements was conducted professionally and carefully in order to prevent the re-questioning of the victims during the criminal justice processes and to prevent further traumatization of the children.…”

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“…“All of these forensic interviews include specific questions about the identity of the abuser, when and where the abuse took place, the duration of abuse, type of abuse, the presence of violence, and/or threats. These interviews are conducted by asking the victim open-ended questions” (Doğangün et al, 2016). The forensic interviews were initially recorded on camera under the supervision of a social worker and a psychologist, and then the records were transcribed by an expert investigator.…”

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Modus operandi of persons convicted of a sexual offense from victims’ perspectives in a Turkish sample

Gönültaş

Zeyrek-Rios

Lester

2021

European Journal of Criminology

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Child sexual abuse is typically studied using reports from the offender and in Western countries. The aim of the present study was to investigate pre- and post-abuse strategies of persons convicted of a sexual offense to children in Turkey using the statements made by the child victims and to frame the results using rational choice theory. A qualitative study was made for the themes in the police statements from 46 children who were victims of child sexual abuse. The content analysis revealed that persons convicted of a sexual offense to children differ in terms of their methods to approach children and in their pre- and post-abuse behaviors depending on their relationship with the victim. A total of 85 percent of the offenses were extra-familial and 15 percent within the family. Only 21 percent of the extra-familial offenses were opportunist; most involved bribes and introductions through friends or intermediaries. Two tactics unique to Turkey were promises of marriage and the use of children as intermediaries. The use of force and blackmail was more common in the intra-familial offenses. The results of the qualitative analysis were, on the whole, consistent with results from persons convicted of a sexual offense to children’s statements, but some of the tactics used by offenders in Turkey were unique to Turkish culture.

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“…Then because this happens in the environment family, it triggers a sense of insecurity, helplessness, and fear of the perpetrator [24], women have internal impacts such as disturbances emotional, and men have external impacts such as sexual violence behavior [25], is anxiety, dropout, drop in academic performance, pessimism, do not trust others, feeling aggrieved, powerlessness, substance abuse and behaviors self-injurious. [26].…”

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Higher Education Female Students Thinking Enlightenment in Avoiding Digital Sexual Abuses; Achieving a Better Mental Health

Aulia¹,

Kusnadi²,

Saepudin³

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Proceedings of the Conference on Digital Humanities 2022 (CODH 2022)

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This study is motivated by the phenomenon about the rise of sexual digital crime for students in Indonesia. It is undeniable that not a few higher students in Indonesia experience sexual harassment through digital pages, either through WhatsApp, Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, or LINE. This is due to the increasingly free, uncontrolled use of social media and the lack of understanding of social media network users. Sexual digital crime has a very heavy impact on the mental health of victims, whether they are male or female, so that traumatic feelings always arise when they must meet new people in the real world or on social media. This is considered important to be studied more deeply to provide solutions to the problems that often give the students a feeling of trauma. This study uses a qualitative approach with data collection techniques such as observation, documentation, questionnaires and interviews with the research sample, namely higher education students in the city of Bandung. This research is expected to provide views to many parties, both the Indonesian government, Bandung city government, institutions, parents, and families that this problem is a substantial problem that must be solved and given a solution, so that there are no more victims of higher education students. And his mental health slumped, and his future could no longer be helped because he often received sexual crimes from his surroundings. The result of this research is that not every institute/campus that has a lot of students conduct an education to their students to prevent these sexual digital abuses to enlightenment thinking of their students even though there's a lot of victims for this case who has a deep mental health such as depression, trauma, or even feel isolated to socialize with others.

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Psychological complaints reported by sexually abused children during criminal investigations: Istanbul example

Cited by 9 publications

References 29 publications

Event Locations in Extra-Familial Child Sexual Molestation Cases: The Istanbul Example

Event Locations in Extra-Familial Child Sexual Molestation Cases: The Istanbul Example

Modus operandi of persons convicted of a sexual offense from victims’ perspectives in a Turkish sample

Higher Education Female Students Thinking Enlightenment in Avoiding Digital Sexual Abuses; Achieving a Better Mental Health

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