Sexual Offenses Against Children: The Misjudged Crime

• NCJ Number: 156708
• Journal: Belugyi Szemle Volume: 33 Issue: 3 Dated: (March 1995) Pages: 21-33
• Author(s): H J Schneider
• Date Published: 1995
• Length: 13 pages
• Publication Format: Article
• Publication Type: Survey
• Language: English
• Country: Hungary
• Note: Translation of article titled Das Verkannte Delikt, published Universitas, N 10

Annotation

Traditional criminological approaches to child sexual abuse committed by strangers considers these offenses to be rare and give little attention to the psychological and social harm suffered by the victims.

Abstract

Criminology focuses on the offender and explains these crimes in terms of offenders' personality disorders. Some also suggest that the sexual abuse of a child existed only in the child's imagination. The issue of child sexual abuse by strangers requires proper attention, because publications in the popular press and talk shows on television cannot prevent child abuse. (Publisher summary modified)