Sexual Victimization: Then and Now provides scholars easy access to information that specifically examines the continuum of sex crimes and the perception of victims by our criminal justice system and society as a whole. This text features contributions from well-known researchers in the field and serves as an important resource to provide scholars with up-to-date research on sexual victimization that will educate students on this complex and evolving challenge for the criminal justice system. Editors Tara N. Richards and Catherine D. Marcum approach the concept by examining how the criminal justice system handles sexual victimization, the association between individuals in a relationship and sexual assault, and unusual and special issues associated with contemporary sexual victimization. By discussing these issues, the theoretical explanations for these crimes and the effectiveness of the policy that has been applied will effectively link the criminological areas of theory, research, and policy.

A scholarly handbook focusing on variables that assist in confronting and preventing the forms of sexual victimization, which include rape, child abductions, battering, sexual harassment, and incest. Resources include parent and teacher training, public education and awareness, and psychotherapeutic techniques for families and friends of victims as well as the victims themselves. All contributors to this handbook have been active in research, advocacy, and legislation in sexual victimization of children, adolescents, and adults. It will be of special interest to individuals who work in the area of sexual victimization: psychologists and psychiatrists, social workers, attorneys, policymakers, agency and shelter volunteers and professionals, clergy, and faculty and students in psychology, women's studies, law, medicine.

The present study was focused on exploring the relationship between the prior victimization experiences and subsequent sexual offences of male adolescent sexual offenders. A specific focus was included regarding the relationship between various characteristics of prior sexual victimization and both penetration and physical force in sexual offences. A total of 180 male participants ranging in age from 12 to 19 were included in this study. A series of chi-square analyses was employed to investigate the relationship between various victimization characteristics and two specific sexual offence variables of interest: Penetration and Physical Force. A relationship was discovered between prior sexual abuse and both penetration and physical force in offences, prior physical abuse and physical force in offences, prior emotional abuse and penetration in offences, and the duration of sexual victimization and physical force in offences. In addition, the relationships between specific sexual acts in the victimization and offences were investigated with significant relationships discovered for vaginal penetration in victimization and offending and anal/vaginal penetration in victimization and offending. Findings also indicated that two or more types of prior victimization might be of importance in male adolescents' commission of intrusive and forceful sexual offences, and that the sexual offences that are committed by male adolescents can be highly intrusive, forceful, and comprised of a variety of sexual acts. A series of exploratory analyses using the ERASOR 2.0 suggested that prior sexual victimization, physical victimization, and neglect might be important in clinicians' ratings of sexual offence recidivism. It was suggested that the results of this investigation are consistent with a social learning/cognitive approach. Future directions were recommended regarding the use of posttreatment information rather than pretreatment information in investigations regarding male adolescent sexual offenders' offence characteristics. It was also indicated that, given both the limitations and the findings of the present investigation, further exploration is necessary regarding both the specificity of the victim-to-victimizer phenomenon and the sexual intrusiveness and forcefulness involved in the sexual offences committed by previously victimized male adolescent sexual offenders.

Since a new sensitivity and orientation to victims of injustice arose in the 1960s, categories of victimization have proliferated. Large numbers of people are now characterized and characterize themselves as sufferers of psychological injury caused by the actions of others. In contrast with the familiar critiques of victim culture, Accounts of Innocence offers a new and empirically rich perspective on the question of why we now place such psychological significance on victimization in people's lives. Focusing on the case of adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse, Joseph E. Davis shows how the idea of innocence shaped the emergence of trauma psychology and continues to inform accounts of the past (and hopes for the future) in therapy with survivor clients. His findings shed new light on the ongoing debate over recovered memories of abuse. They challenge the notion that victim accounts are an evasion of personal responsibility. And they suggest important ways in which trauma psychology has had unintended and negative consequences for how victims see themselves and for how others relate to them. An important intervention in the study of victimization in our culture, Accounts of Innocence will interest scholars of clinical psychology, social work, and sociology, as well as therapists and victim activists.

A scholarly handbook focusing on variables that assist in confronting and preventing the forms of sexual victimization, which include rape, child abductions, battering, sexual harassment, and incest. Resources include parent and teacher training, public education and awareness, and psychotherapeutic techniques for families and friends of victims as well as the victims themselves. All contributors to this handbook have been active in research, advocacy, and legislation in sexual victimization of children, adolescents, and adults. It will be of special interest to individuals who work in the area of sexual victimization: psychologists and psychiatrists, social workers, attorneys, policymakers, agency and shelter volunteers and professionals, clergy, and faculty and students in psychology, women's studies, law, medicine.