Briggs F, Hawkins R M
De Lissa Institute of Early Childhood Studies, University of South Australia, Magill, South Australia.
Child Abuse Negl. 1996 Mar;20(3):221-33. doi: 10.1016/s0145-2134(95)00145-x.
Eighty-four incarcerated child molesters and 95 nonoffender comparison subjects were interviewed. All of the nonoffenders and 93% of the child molesters had been sexually abused in childhood. The prisoners were more socially disadvantaged as children and had received more verbal and physical abuse. The prisoners were more accepting of their abuse in the sense of not understanding or accepting that it was aberrant behavior but rather thinking that it was a commonplace, inevitable, and consequently a normal part of childhood. Liking some aspect of the initial abuse also differentiated prisoners from the nonoffenders. Prisoners were abused by a larger number of people than were nonoffenders. Prisoners did not use the fact of their own abuse as an excuse for their own offenses. Abuse by a female was more common in the prisoner group. It is possible to see what constitutes sexual abuse to an outsider being construed positively by some victims, especially where the sexual acts occur in a context that includes affection and attention. This factor seems important to remember when trying to understand the replication of abuse across generations. The men who were least damaged by abuse were those abused by strangers in "one-off" offenses, which they recognized as wrong and from which they escaped without accepting responsibility for the adults behavior.
对84名被监禁的儿童性侵犯者和95名非犯罪对照对象进行了访谈。所有非犯罪者和93%的儿童性侵犯者在童年时期都遭受过性虐待。这些囚犯在儿童时期社会处境更不利，遭受的言语和身体虐待更多。这些囚犯在不理解或不接受虐待是异常行为，而是认为这是童年常见、不可避免且正常的一部分的意义上，更能接受自己所遭受的虐待。喜欢最初虐待的某些方面也使囚犯与非犯罪者有所不同。囚犯遭受虐待的人数比非犯罪者更多。囚犯没有将自己遭受虐待的事实作为自己犯罪的借口。女性实施的虐待在囚犯群体中更为常见。可以看到，一些受害者会将局外人认为构成性虐待的行为视为正面行为，尤其是在性行为发生在包含情感和关爱的背景下时。在试图理解代际间虐待行为的重复时，记住这一因素似乎很重要。受虐待伤害最小的男性是那些在“一次性”犯罪中被陌生人虐待的人，他们认识到这种行为是错误的，并且在不承担对成年人行为责任的情况下逃脱了。
