John Jay College of Criminal Justice, The Graduate Center, CUNY, New York, NY, USA.
Sex Abuse. 2013 Dec;25(6):606-21. doi: 10.1177/1079063211425690. Epub 2012 Dec 23.
The overwhelming number of male victims of clergy sexual abuse led to assumptions regarding sexual preference of clergy offenders. The present study examined 9,540 records (incidents) of alleged cleric sexual abuse in the United States between 1950 and 1999 to explore situational factors of the abuse by victim gender. No evidence was found to suggest that male victims were purposefully targeted more than female victims; rather, the abuse appeared to be more a function of opportunity. These findings support a situational framework of sexual abuse for the majority of clergy abuse and the assertion that abuse in church can be understood as not a crisis regarding homosexuality but as a social problem that must be examined in its context.
大量男性神职人员性虐待受害者的存在，导致人们对神职人员犯罪者的性取向产生了假设。本研究调查了 1950 年至 1999 年间美国发生的 9540 起神职人员性虐待指控案件，以探讨受害者性别对虐待情况的影响。没有证据表明男性受害者比女性受害者更被有意针对；相反，这种虐待似乎更多地是机会的结果。这些发现支持了大多数神职人员性虐待的情境框架，并断言教会中的虐待不能被理解为是同性恋危机，而是一个必须在其背景下进行审查的社会问题。
