Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1966. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 288-294).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Carleton University, 2001. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 184-208). Also available in electronic format on the Internet.

Thesis (Ph. D. (Law))--Rhodes University, 2006.

Preliminary results from research show some promising results for the Sex Offender Treatment Services Collaborative – Intellectual Disability (SOTSEC-ID) treatment on offence recidivism. However, further research that explores the processes of behaviour change is required. This study answered the research question: What are the key mechanisms to therapeutic change in individuals with ID who have completed a sex offender treatment programme (SOTP)? A qualitative grounded theory methodology was used to understand the processes of change. A semi-structured interview was used with 12 participants. The results showed that relationship experience, acceptance of responsibility, being able to remember the details of the group, group processes, understanding their own risk and practical strategies were the key areas that are influential in the change process. Barriers to change were also highlighted. The study concluded that there are other factors such as group processes important in the process of change that influence behaviour change, other than the content of the treatment. Group treatment is supported for this population.

Orientador: Ana Cláudia Bortolozzi Maia / Banca: Constantina Xavier Filha / Banca: Paula Regina Costa Ribeiro / Resumo: A vitimização sexual pode ser entendida como uma relação de poder entre um adulto e uma criança, na medida em que o primeiro coage a vítima para que esta satisfaça os seus interesses, expectativas e desejos sexuais. O/a professo/a é figura fundamental no rompimento do silêncio a respeito da violência sexual infantil, visto que é alguém em quem a criança confia e tem acesso facilmente. Contudo, apesar de ser necessário dialogar sobre sexualidade, identificar e denunciar situações de violência sexual infantil, muitos/as professores/as tem receio de realizar um projeto sobre essa temática, seja por despreparo pessoal e profissional, seja por temor em sofrer represálias da família e/ou da escola. Tendo isso em vista, este é um estudo qualitativo descritivo que tem como objetivo investigar as compreensões sobre o conceito e a prevenção da violência sexual infantil nos relatos de dezesseis professoras da Educação Infantil. Assim, primeriamente, o projeto de pesquisa foi enviado e aprovado por um Comitê de Ética para, então, fazer o contato com as professoras participantes. Em dias previamente agendados, estas reponderam à entrevista, assinando o termo de consentimento informado, tendo a interação sido gravada em áudio e transcrita na íntegra, para a análise de dados. Esta pautou-se na análise de conteúdo, onde o conteúdo temático foi agrupado em categorias e subcategorias. Os resultados obtidos indicam que a maior parte das professoras compreende a violência sexual enquanto um fenômeno que vai além do ato sexual. Essa violência foi explicada como conseqüência de uma família desajustada, distúrbios psicológicos do/a agressor/a, fatores socioeconômicos, bem como associada à religião. Para maior parte delas, o/a agressor/a é alguém com transtorno psicológico, que não... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: The sexual victimization can be understood as power relationship between an adult and a child, in which the first coerces the victim so that it meets their interests, expectations and desires. The teacher is a key figure on breaking the silence about child sexual abuse, for being someone the child trusts and can easily. However, despite being required to talk about sexuality, identify and report cases of sexual violence in their students, many teachers are afraid to do a project on this topic, because they fell personal and professional unprepared, either by fear or reprisals from family or school. Keeping this in view, this is a descriptive qualitative study that aims to investigate understandings about the concept and the prevention of child sexual abuse reports in sexteen teachers from kindergaten. So, first, the research project was submitted and approved by an Ethics Committee to then make contact with the participanting teachers. On days previoulsy scheduled they responded to the interview by signing the consent form, and the interaction was audio-recorded and full transcribed for analysis. This way based on content analysis, where the thematic content was grouped into categories and subcategories. The results indicate that most of the teachers understand sexual violence as a phenomenon that goes beyond the sexual act. This violence was explained as a consequence of a dysfunctional family, the perpetrator psychological disorders, socieconomic factors, and associated with religion. For most of them, the abuser, the abuser is someone with psychological disorder, who can not control their sexual urges. They believe that demonstrated the victimized child manifests symptoms in the classroom, as well as sexual violence can have negative consequences for the child. Some participants reported guide their students about... (Complete abstract click electronic access below) / Mestre

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:29:00Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2013-01-25Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T18:58:20Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 spaziani_rb_me_bauru.pdf: 555090 bytes, checksum: 8cd044d4712b61f711bfe504756bfacd (MD5) / A vitimização sexual pode ser entendida como uma relação de poder entre um adulto e uma criança, na medida em que o primeiro coage a vítima para que esta satisfaça os seus interesses, expectativas e desejos sexuais. O/a professo/a é figura fundamental no rompimento do silêncio a respeito da violência sexual infantil, visto que é alguém em quem a criança confia e tem acesso facilmente. Contudo, apesar de ser necessário dialogar sobre sexualidade, identificar e denunciar situações de violência sexual infantil, muitos/as professores/as tem receio de realizar um projeto sobre essa temática, seja por despreparo pessoal e profissional, seja por temor em sofrer represálias da família e/ou da escola. Tendo isso em vista, este é um estudo qualitativo descritivo que tem como objetivo investigar as compreensões sobre o conceito e a prevenção da violência sexual infantil nos relatos de dezesseis professoras da Educação Infantil. Assim, primeriamente, o projeto de pesquisa foi enviado e aprovado por um Comitê de Ética para, então, fazer o contato com as professoras participantes. Em dias previamente agendados, estas reponderam à entrevista, assinando o termo de consentimento informado, tendo a interação sido gravada em áudio e transcrita na íntegra, para a análise de dados. Esta pautou-se na análise de conteúdo, onde o conteúdo temático foi agrupado em categorias e subcategorias. Os resultados obtidos indicam que a maior parte das professoras compreende a violência sexual enquanto um fenômeno que vai além do ato sexual. Essa violência foi explicada como conseqüência de uma família desajustada, distúrbios psicológicos do/a agressor/a, fatores socioeconômicos, bem como associada à religião. Para maior parte delas, o/a agressor/a é alguém com transtorno psicológico, que não... / The sexual victimization can be understood as power relationship between an adult and a child, in which the first coerces the victim so that it meets their interests, expectations and desires. The teacher is a key figure on breaking the silence about child sexual abuse, for being someone the child trusts and can easily. However, despite being required to talk about sexuality, identify and report cases of sexual violence in their students, many teachers are afraid to do a project on this topic, because they fell personal and professional unprepared, either by fear or reprisals from family or school. Keeping this in view, this is a descriptive qualitative study that aims to investigate understandings about the concept and the prevention of child sexual abuse reports in sexteen teachers from kindergaten. So, first, the research project was submitted and approved by an Ethics Committee to then make contact with the participanting teachers. On days previoulsy scheduled they responded to the interview by signing the consent form, and the interaction was audio-recorded and full transcribed for analysis. This way based on content analysis, where the thematic content was grouped into categories and subcategories. The results indicate that most of the teachers understand sexual violence as a phenomenon that goes beyond the sexual act. This violence was explained as a consequence of a dysfunctional family, the perpetrator psychological disorders, socieconomic factors, and associated with religion. For most of them, the abuser, the abuser is someone with psychological disorder, who can not control their sexual urges. They believe that demonstrated the victimized child manifests symptoms in the classroom, as well as sexual violence can have negative consequences for the child. Some participants reported guide their students about... (Complete abstract click electronic access below)

“Indeed in rape cases it is the victim who is most often placed on trial rather than the perpetrator, accused of having ulterior motives and subjected to degrading questions with often pornographic overtones. Prosecutors might fail to adequately address the victims needs and all too often, information is either intentionally or unintentionally withheld from victims.” The victims of sexual offences have to face not only the consequences of the sexual crime that was perpetrated upon them, but they also have to deal with the effects of the criminal justice system. Victims who take part in the criminal justice system should not be exposed to unnecessary distress and trauma. The victims of sexual offences must not be re-victimised by the criminal justice system. Re-victimisation has been coined to describe the experience where victims are subjected to further victimisation by the very state organs to whom they turn for assistance. This has the effect that the victim is victimised twice, first by the offender and then by the criminal justice system. It is therefore the duty of the law to protect this group of witnesses from such a traumatic and damaging experience. The question that needs to be answered in this research is whether the Sexual Offences and Related Matters Amendment has made any difference in respect of protection of victims sexual crimes. It was concluded that the Sexual Offences Act is indeed a step in the right direction to protect the rights of victims of sexual offences but that it could have afforded more protection.

The study undertaken is concerned with the reformulation of the common law crime of rape from a juridical and socio-psychological perspective. It is based on the premise that the common law definition of rape is insufficient. Specific attention is given to the current crime of rape and the proposed amendments introduced by the South African Law Commission. In the haste to transpose the concept of gender-neutrality implemented in other countries to the crime of rape in South Africa, the basic reasoning behind why the crime of rape should be extended to certain categories of victim has been neglected. Rape as a form of penetrative sexual assault is critically examined. The focus of this study is to identify categories of penetrative sexual assault victim in order to justify the extension of the crime to certain victims and to facilitate the application of an extended definition to factual situations. The classification of victims is accomplished with reference to psycho-social data in order to provide a plausible explanation as to why the crime of rape, which was originally created as a property crime, should be extended to additional victims. The common law crimes which can be applied to penetrative sexual assault victims are critically examined. A comparative overview of the definitions of rape adopted in Australia, Britain and the United States of America is undertaken. An investigation is also undertaken into the impact of HIV on rape victims. The extension of the definition of rape to persons who engage in unprotected sexual intercourse with a person who intentionally exposes him or her to the HIV virus or another life threatening illness is examined. The possibility of consolidating the common law crimes into a statutory offence applicable to harmful HIV related behaviour for purposes of expediency and deterrence is examined. A perspective is therefore provided as to the motivation behind why additional penetrative sexual assault victims should be classified as rape victims. The efficiency of the current and proposed definitions of rape is highlighted and examined. Where lacunae are established, solutions are proposed. / Thesis (LLD)--University of Pretoria, 2006. / Jurisprudence / Unrestricted

Peace officers across this country have allowed a hostile environment to be created with offenders who are in their custody. An overview of the issues to be addressed in this study will begin with sexual boundary violations among peace officers and offenders, such as physical intimacy and emotional commitment that meets the sexual needs of the peace officer.

The approach behaviors of 107 incarcerated child molesters at Atascadero State Hospital in California were examined through the use of an interview protocol and a 49-question questionnaire developed from the interview findings. The goal was to develop a data base for a molestation prevention program directed toward children. Results suggest that the sampled molesters were oriented to behaviors that commonly occur in friendship formation, including focusing attention on the child and his/her interests and attributes. These findings suggest that an effective prevention program could be very difficult to develop.