Citation

Groth AN, Burgess AW. Crim. Justice Behav. 1977; 4(3): 253-264.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1977, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/009385487700400303

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

This study analyzes 74 preadult victims' accounts of sexual assault and 137 convicted child offenders' accounts of sexual assault. Two types of child assault were identified: sex-pressure, which was achieved by offender enticement and/or entrapment of the child into sexual activity; and sex-force, where the victim was forced to submit to the assault through exploitation, intimidation, and/or aggression. Life issues of dominance, power, authority, control, aggression, and sadism were present in varying degrees of intensity in the assault.

Language: en