Griffith Criminology Institute, Griffith University, 176 Messines Ridge Road, Mt Gravatt, Queensland 4122, Australia.
Child Abuse Negl. 2023 Nov;145:106419. doi: 10.1016/j.chiabu.2023.106419. Epub 2023 Aug 23.
The last two decades have seen global public recognition of the scale and impact of adult-perpetrated institutional child sexual abuse. A sizeable body of knowledge about generalized safeguarding measures has since been generated to inform organizations' prevention efforts. Apparent in the extant literature, however, is a notable lack of evidence-based and context-specific prevention strategies targeting perpetration in distinct institutional environments. This absence extends to educational settings where most reported contemporary cases occur or originate. The recommendations outlined in this article contribute to this gap. Derived from empirical findings establishing the role of context-specific rather than person-specific factors, a range of prevention strategies framed by Situational Crime Prevention are proposed for secondary educational settings. These recommendations are supplemented by the unique insights of interviewed experts with specialist professional knowledge. Recommendations center around targeting features of the environment such as high-risk locations, available guardians, and intimacy-promoting situations available in educational contexts. Taken together, this robust prevention and control agenda can create conditions for safer educational environments.
在过去的二十年中，全球公众已经认识到成人对机构内儿童性虐待的规模和影响。此后，已经产生了大量关于一般保护措施的知识，为组织的预防工作提供信息。然而，在现有的文献中，明显缺乏针对特定机构环境中犯罪行为的基于证据和具体情况的预防策略。这种情况也延伸到了教育环境，因为大多数当代报告的案例都发生或源自教育环境。本文概述的建议有助于填补这一空白。这些建议源自于实证研究结果，这些研究结果确定了特定情境因素而非特定个体因素的作用，提出了一系列基于情境犯罪预防的预防策略，适用于中学教育环境。这些建议得到了具有专业知识的专家访谈的独特见解的补充。建议集中在针对环境中的特征，例如高风险地点、可用的监护人以及教育环境中促进亲密关系的情况。总的来说，这种强大的预防和控制议程可以为更安全的教育环境创造条件。
