This study investigates the conceptualisation of child-on-child sexual offenders from the perspective of a group of isiZulu educators. Although a number of studies focusing on child-on-child sexual offenders have been conducted internationally, this is not the case in South Africa. The lack of literature regarding this issue, particularly in the school environment, and the increasing number of child-on-child sexual offenders provided the motivation for the research. Three focus groups were conducted with educators representing three educational environments, namely: educators teaching at a school for mentally retarded children, educators from a rural school and finally educators from township schools. The focus groups were transcribed and then analysed on two levels. Firstly, the data was examined in terms of explicit concepts and were based on concepts previously identified in the literature. The concepts were, quantified by way of a content analysis. In relation to this, four major conceptualisations emerged, each of which were further subdivided. The four major concepts included: 1) child-on-child sexual offending as "abnormal"; 2) childon-child sexual offending as "normal"; 3) the role of acculturation in child-on-child sexual offending; and, 4) the role of educators and the educational system in relation to child-onchild sexual offending. This analysis was useful in that it highlighted common and significant themes among the three focus groups. Secondly, the data was analysed qualitatively and emerging implicit themes examined in greater depth. During this phase a number of strategies that were used by the educators to normalise, relativise and justify the issue of child-on-child sexual offending were identified. The function of these strategies was considered to be a defensive strategy to make the issue of child-on-child sexual offending more tolerable and thus easier to talk about. / Thesis (M.A.)-University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 2001.

This study investigates the conceptualisation of child-on-child sexual offenders from the perspective of a group of isiZulu educators. Although a number of studies focusing on child-on-child sexual offenders have been conducted internationally, this is not the case in South Africa. The lack of literature regarding this issue, particularly in the school environment, and the increasing number of child-on-child sexual offenders provided the motivation for the research. Three focus groups were conducted with educators representing three educational environments, namely: educators teaching at a school for mentally retarded children, educators from a rural school and finally educators from township schools. The focus groups were transcribed and then analysed on two levels. Firstly, the data was examined in terms of explicit concepts and were based on concepts previously identified in the literature. The concepts were, quantified by way of a content analysis. In relation to this, four major conceptualisations emerged, each of which were further subdivided. The four major concepts included: 1) child-on-child sexual offending as "abnormal"; 2) child- on-child sexual offending as "normal"; 3) the role of acculturation in child-on-child sexual offending; and, 4) the role of educators and the educational system in relation to child-on- child sexual offending. This analysis was useful in that it highlighted common and significant themes among the three focus groups. Secondly, the data was analysed qualitatively and emerging implicit themes examined in greater depth. During this phase a number of strategies that were used by the educators to normalise, relativise and justify the issue of child-on-child sexual offending were identified. The function of these strategies was considered to be a defensive strategy to make the issue of child-on-child sexual offending more tolerable and thus easier to talk about. / Thesis (M.A.)-University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 2001.

Föreliggande uppsats kan lokaliseras inom det vetenskapliga område som behandlar stigmatisering av pedofiler och barnsexförbrytare. Med utgångspunkt i en samtida förväxling mellan koncepten pedofil och barnsexförbrytare som tilldelar pedofiler barnsexförbrytarstatus, är studien avgränsad till barnpornografibrottet som en negativ statuskälla för pedofiler. Barnpornografibrottet särbehandlas i svensk lag, i synnerhet sedan brottet flyttades ut ur tryckfrihetsförordningen och yttrandefrihetsgrundlagen 1999. Syftet med uppsatsen är att fördjupa förståelsen för brottets betydelse, särbehandling och vad det innebär för pedofili. Med hänsyn till sådan bakgrund utgår uppsatsen från följande frågeställningar; Vilka underliggande motiv kan utläsas i lagmässig särbehandling av barnpornografibrottet i Sverige, Varför särbehandlas barnpornografibrottet och Vilken betydelse får den lagmässiga särbehandlingen för pedofili? Med hjälp av tematisk analys undersöks två lagförarbeten. Studiens resultat tyder på att barnpornografibrottet till stor del är ett symboliskt brott, att lagmässig särbehandling av brottet upprätthåller en social hierarki mellan barn och vuxna samt att särbehandling av brottet förstärker en annan social hierarki där social status är sammankopplat med hävdat socialt avstånd till barnpornografibrottet. Den senare nämnda hierarkin refereras till som den sociala avståndshierarkin. Konceptet pedofili tolkas kränka den förstnämnda hierarkin, ett koncept som människor kan särskilja sig mot och således stratifiera sig själva, vilket i sin tur producerar stigma och den sociala avståndshierarkin. / The present thesis can be located within the area of scientific research that deals with stigmatization of paedophiles and child sex offenders. Emanating from a contemporary confusion regarding the concepts paedophilia and child sexual offense, in which paedophiles are assigned the social status of child sexual offender, the present study is delimited to the child pornography offense as a negative source of status regarding paedophiles. The child pornography offense receives special treatment in Swedish law, particularly since the offense was moved out from The Freedom of the Press Act and The Fundamental Law on Freedom of Expression in 1999. The purpose of the study is to deepen the understanding of the meaning of the offense, the special legal treatment and what it entails for paedophilia. With regard to such background, the present study issues the following research questions; What underlaying motives can be identified within legal special treatment of the child pornography offense in Sweden, Why does the child pornography offense receive special treatment and What does the special legal treatment entail for paedophilia? Two legislative documents are investigated using Thematic Analysis. The results of the study indicate that the child pornography offense is to a large part a symbolic crime, that special legal treatment of the crime maintains a social hierarchy between children and adults and that such legal treatment reinforces another social hierarchy where social status is interconnected to asserted social distance to child sexual offenses. The latter hierarchy is referred to as the social distance hierarchy. Paedophilia is interpreted as a concept that violates the social hierarchy between children and adults, a concept which people can distinct themselves from and thus stratify themselves which in turn produces stigma and the social distance hierarchy.