Sexual Violence Research and Prevention Unit, University of the Sunshine Coast, Brisbane, QLD, Australia.
Violence Against Women. 2023 Oct;29(12-13):2639-2660. doi: 10.1177/10778012231189481. Epub 2023 Jul 25.
Sexual violence is unevenly distributed, with concentrations reported in some contexts and not others, on global, national, and local levels. To advance understanding of why concentrations develop in some settings and not others, existing theory and research is explored and critiqued, identifying a need for new theory generation. Building on existing knowledge, a new theory of contextual activation is proposed, explaining the social and contextual factors associated with the development of sexual violence and abuse concentrations, through the activation at scale of routine causal mechanisms. The paper concludes with a discussion of implications for enhanced prevention and next steps in testing the utility of this new theory.
性暴力的分布不均衡，在全球、国家和地方各级的某些情况下有报告，但在其他情况下则没有。为了深入了解为什么某些情况下会出现集中现象，而其他情况下则没有，本研究探讨和批判了现有理论和研究，指出需要新的理论生成。在现有知识的基础上，提出了一个新的情境激活理论，通过大规模激活常规因果机制，解释了与性暴力和虐待集中发生相关的社会和情境因素。本文最后讨论了加强预防的意义，并提出了下一步测试这一新理论效用的步骤。
