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Minor-attraction, Older partner, Child/minor, Anthropological/zoological.

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Resources

There is a list of potential lit-review starting points here.

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All links checked and updated as of now. We need a robot to do this. --The Admins (talk) 07:20, 4 October 2021 (CEST)

Potential topic reviews

Prevalence and compound effects of other Child Abuse

Trying to compare nonsexual CA with CSA - and also speculating as to why it is given no attention among scholars, if indeed it is a big problem.

Children in the Courtroom

Is there any evidence to suggest that the legal testimony of small children in abuse cases is nearly always honest? Can small children lie?

What do cases in which minors refuse to testify tell us about the underlying circumstances?

Medicalisation of the Child perpetrator

Plethysmographs, anal probing, electroshock.

http://www.sexual-offender-treatment.org/149.html

some pointers in video series https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6QfRwrRcxTM --The Admins (talk) 22:57, 27 September 2021 (CEST)

CSO [cognitive behavioural] treatment; effectiveness of

Contrary to the social desirability hypothesis, the untreated child molesters did not respond significantly faster than controls when they disagreed with the cognitive distortion sentences. Most surprising, however, was the finding challenging the treatment effect hypothesis: treated child molesters were significantly more rapid than both control groups in disagreeing with the cognitive distortion sentences, and their response times more closely resembled their processing speeds for beliefs requiring simplistic semantic judgments than other groups. These results do not appear to be consistent with the idea that treatment teaches these men to be more honest and self-reflective in responding. (Gannon... see cognitive distortion)

[chemical] Castration.

More importantly, however, our follow-up studies of treated sex offenders against children revealed no effect of treatment on recidivism, despite promising pre–post comparisons on various treatment targets such as phallometrically measured sexual deviance (Rice, Quinsey, & Harris, 1991) Indeed, it appeared as if pretreatment phallometric assessment was more closely related to outcome than was posttreatment assessment. It is important to understand that the evaluation of the Oak Ridge treatment program for sexual offenders against children found an effect on recidivism in the wrong direction, not a small effect of treatment that failed to reach statistical significance because of insufficient power. This finding was replicated in an evaluation of the Regional Treatment Centre Sex Offender Treatment Program at Kingston Penitentiary with a larger and more heterogeneous sample of sex offenders (Quinsey, Khanna, & Malcolm, 1998). [...] The augmented sex offender programs did not produce large treatment effect sizes in follow-up evaluations, and the efficacy of treatment for sex offenders in reducing recidivism remains moot (e.g., Rice & Harris, 2003). Notably, the best controlled evaluation of sex offender treatment to date (Marques, Wiederanders, Day, Nelson, & van Ommeren, 2005) found no reduction in recidivism to result from a well-implemented state-of-the-art treatment program for sex offenders. (Seeking Enlightenment on the Dark Side of Psychology, Quinsey, 2008)

The Child Trauma Industry - underpinnings and effectiveness of

"The evidence clearly indicates that the routine provision of psychotherapy for the sexually abused is not warranted. Why, then, is it provided routinely? Unfortunately, child sexual abuse is a problem that is widely exploited by professionals according to Costin, Karger, and Stoesz (1996):

the rediscovery of child abuse by the middle class has also led to the growth of a child abuse industry composed of opportunistic psychotherapists and aggressive attorneys who have prospered from child sexual abuse, exploiting adults who have evidence of having been abused and encouraging memory recall fro those who haven't. ... Clearly, the psychological paradigm of child abuse has been a godsend ... for mental health professionals looking for new diseases. Unfortunately, one of the causalities of this new industry has been adult victims, who risk being victimized yet again, this time by a child abuse industry seeking out new forms of economic growth.

Ironically, a public that is sympathetic to the plight of abused and neglected children fails to understand that it foots much of the bill for an out-of-control and demand-driven legal and psychotherapy industry. ... (p. 7)

Dineen (1999) took a similar position. She charged that the psychology industry (which she defines broadly to include psychologists, psychiatrist, psychoanalysts, clinical social workers, and psychotherapists) needs victims to justify the expansion of its domain. Accordingly, it "manufactures victims." Tavris (1993) made a similar charge with respect to the incest-survivor recovery movement. Thus, according to Costin et al., Dineen, and Tavris, child sexual abuse has become an arena of opportunism for and exploitation by some in the mental health industry"[1]

The [Roman Catholic] Church

Are offending rates among RC clergy higher than in other denominations? Are rates higher among clergy than among teachers, biological parents, foster parents etc?

John Jay Rpt? The Nature and Scope of Sexual Abuse of Minors by Catholic Priests and Deacons in the United States 1950-2002

See: Wikipedia --The Admins (talk) 12:13, 24 June 2022 (UTC)

Satanic Ritual Abuse

The debunking of an abuse panic that was once widely accepted among clinicians.

Modern inventions - "Sexting", "Teen Dating Violence"

Something useful on Riegel's site?

Have not read.

http://www.shfri.net/trans/hoffman/hoffman.cgi

Shall we add a page on philosophy? A place for quotes from, say, Stephen Kershnar, Robert Ehman, Terry Leahy, Ole Martin Moen, Agustin Malon, Stephen Angelides, etc. Could go in the section on "Anthropological, zoological and broader perspectives" - i.e. a broader perspective?