@article{ref1,
title="Interpreting child sexual abuse: the impact of victim response",
journal="Journal of child sexual abuse",
year="2014",
author="Hempel, Inge Sarah and Buck, Nicole Maria Leonarda and van Marle, Hjalmar Johan Carel",
volume="23",
number="8",
pages="977-990",
abstract="There is little empirical knowledge about whether the interpretation process of child sex offenders is offense-supportive in nature and contributes to the offending process. Vignettes were developed to compare child sex offenders' and non-offenders' interpretations of child molestation incidents after ambiguous and non-ambiguous victim responses. <br><br>RESULTS showed that child sex offenders' (N = 60) interpretations did not differ from non-offenders' (N = 40) interpretations. Overall, the more ambiguous the child responses, the more child complicity and child benefit was seen. Our results indicate that offense-supportive interpretations are not unique to child sex offenders. The mechanisms that are responsible for whether or not to commit a sexual offense should be unraveled and treated, to prevent deviant processes to be activated.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1053-8712",
doi="10.1080/10538712.2014.960634",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10538712.2014.960634"
}