University of Southern California, United States.
University of Southern California, United States.
Child Abuse Negl. 2021 May;115:104994. doi: 10.1016/j.chiabu.2021.104994. Epub 2021 Feb 26.
Research has largely overlooked expressions of reluctance in commercially sexually exploited adolescent ("CSEA") victims. This is problematic because gaining information from known victims is of the utmost importance in order to better serve the needs of current and potential future victims.
The current study proposes a novel conceptualization of reluctance based on CSEA victims' transcripts from police interviews and courtroom examinations.
The study examined police interviews (n = 8 victims, 1558 utterances) and courtroom transcripts (n = 6 victims, 1961 utterances) conducted with female CSEA victims aged 15-17 years old (M = 16.29). The victims were associated with the same trafficker and were thus interviewed by the same group of police officers, and for those who testified, were questioned by the same lawyers in court.
Sixteen reluctance tactics were identified, including several that have been overlooked in previous literature. The current reluctance measure identified more reluctance than previous studies' reluctance measures. Reluctance was much more common in police interviews (26.4%; p < .001) than in court (5.5%), and if victims were more reluctant in the police interviews, they were less likely to appear in court (p = .001).
These findings have implications for future conceptualizations of reluctance, and illustrate the importance of considering the age of the victim and the circumstances under which the victim is questioned in identifying reluctance.
研究在很大程度上忽视了商业性性剥削青少年（“CSEA”）受害者的不情愿表达。这是有问题的，因为从已知受害者那里获取信息对于更好地满足当前和潜在未来受害者的需求至关重要。
本研究基于警察采访和法庭审讯中 CSEA 受害者的文字记录，提出了一种对不情愿的新理解。
本研究调查了与同一名人口贩子有关的 15-17 岁的女性 CSEA 受害者（M = 16.29）的警察采访（n = 8 名受害者，1558 次发言）和法庭记录（n = 6 名受害者，1961 次发言）。受害者由同一组警察进行采访，因此采访由同一组警察进行，对于那些出庭作证的受害者，由同一名律师在法庭上提问。
确定了 16 种不情愿策略，包括先前文献中忽略的几种。目前的不情愿测量方法比以前的研究测量方法识别出更多的不情愿。在警察采访中（26.4%；p<.001）比在法庭上（5.5%）更常见，而且如果受害者在警察采访中更不情愿，他们出庭的可能性就越小（p=0.001）。
这些发现对未来对不情愿的概念化具有影响，并说明了在确定不情愿时考虑受害者的年龄和受害者被询问的情况的重要性。
