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Assessing risk of victim crossover with children and young people who display Harmful Sexual Behaviours.

Allardyce, Stuart; Yates, Peter Michael

Authors

Stuart Allardyce

Peter Michael Yates



Abstract

Assessments of children and young people who display harmful sexual behaviours need to consider – at a broad level – the safety of other children at home, in the community and in the wider family. To date, issues of victim selection have been marginalised in the relevant literature. Drawing on our experience of working with this client group, this article uses four composite case studies that reflect the heterogeneity of children and young people who sexually abuse and applies recent research findings about intra- and extra-familial sexual abuse to make suggestions for good practice in assessment and intervention with young people who display harmful sexual behaviours in different settings.

Citation

Allardyce, S., & Yates, P. M. (2013). Assessing risk of victim crossover with children and young people who display Harmful Sexual Behaviours. Child Abuse Review, 22, 255-267. https://doi.org/10.1002/car.2277

Journal Article Type Article
Publication Date 2013
Deposit Date Mar 11, 2015
Print ISSN 0952-9136
Electronic ISSN 1099-0852
Publisher Wiley
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 22
Pages 255-267
DOI https://doi.org/10.1002/car.2277
Keywords Victim crossover; adolescent; sibling sexual abuse; risk assessment;
Public URL http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/7666
Publisher URL http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/car.2277