학술논문
Perpetrator Gender and Type of Child Maltreatment: Overcoming Limited Conceptualizations and Obtaining Representative Samples.
Document Type
Article
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Subject
*CHILD abuse
*CHILD welfare
*ABUSED children
*PHYSICAL abuse
*CHILD sexual abuse
*ABUSIVE men
*ABUSIVE women
*CRIMES against children
*SEX crimes
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ISSN
0009-4021
Abstract
The article discusses issues related to child abuse. Research on child abuse has suffered from the lack of proper differentiation of its different types as well as from limited information about differences due to gender of perpetrators. Some recent studies have revealed that there are significant differences in female and male perpetration in the three major types of child abuse--physical abuse, sexual abuse, and neglect. Most of the studies on the topic assume that males are the only perpetrators of child abuse.