Finkelhor D.

Child Sexual Abuse

The Free Press, New York (1984)

Contents

1. Preface
2. Sexual Abuse as a Social Problem
3. Sexual Abuse as a Moral Problem
4. Victims
5. Perpetrators
6. Four Preconditions: A Model
7. Child Sexual Abuse in a Sample of Boston Families
8. What the Public Knows About Sexual Abuse
9. How the Public Defines Sexual Abuse
10. What Parents Tell Their Children About Sexual Abuse
11. Boys as Victims
12. Women as Perpetrators
13. Long-Term Effects of Childhood Sexual Abuse
14. Professional's Response
15. Implications for Theory, Research, and Practice

from Finkelhor 1984, p.154

As indicated in Chapter 6, I also have data on sexual abuse of boys from a random community sample. The figures cited there, based on the 185 fathers of children 6 - 14 in the Boston area, show that 6% said they had had an experience involving physical contact with a person fove or more years older prior to age 17 that they would have termed "abuse". However, in Table 10-1 I have used a definition of abuse more consistent with that of Bell and Weinberg, for purpose of comparison: Abuse is defined as an experience before the age of 13 with a partner at least five years older involving physical contact and labeled by the respondent as "abuse". In my survey, 3.2% of the men reported such an experience, quite in line with Bell and Weinberg's findings.