Peter Tracey
Department of Sociology, University of Manitoba, 309 Isbister Building, Winnipeg, Manitoba R3T 2N2.
J Interpers Violence. 2009 Jul;24(7):1111-28. doi: 10.1177/0886260508322194. Epub 2008 Aug 13.
The objective of this article is to compare male- and female-perpetrated sexual abuse in terms of victim and abuser characteristics, type of abuse, family structure, and worker information. Bivariate tests of significance were performed on the 1998 Canadian Incidence Study of Reported Child Abuse and Neglect, which included 308 male and 37 female abusers. Results show a prevalence rate of 10.7% for female-perpetrated sexual abuse. Girls were more likely to be victimized for both male- and female-perpetrated sexual violence and females tended to abuse younger children. The majority of children came from families with lower socioeconomic status although one in five victims of female-perpetrated sexual abuse came from middle-class homes. Referrals to child welfare agencies were more likely to be made by nonprofessionals when females abused.
本文的目的是比较男性和女性实施的性虐待在受害者和施虐者特征、虐待类型、家庭结构以及工作者信息方面的差异。对1998年加拿大儿童虐待与忽视报告发生率研究进行了双变量显著性检验，该研究包括308名男性施虐者和37名女性施虐者。结果显示，女性实施的性虐待患病率为10.7%。在男性和女性实施的性暴力中，女孩更有可能成为受害者，并且女性倾向于虐待年龄更小的儿童。尽管五分之一的女性实施性虐待的受害者来自中产阶级家庭，但大多数儿童来自社会经济地位较低的家庭。当女性实施虐待时，儿童福利机构更有可能由非专业人员转介。
