Applying situational principles to sexual offenses against children

By R. Wortley, S. Smallbone. 2006

214 citations recorded by the source corpus.

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

Internet sexual activity: A comparison between contact and non-contact child pornography offenders (2010, methodology): “In keeping with the literature on child sexual abuse, the results of this study support the notion that child sexual abuse is a complex phenomenon that is best explained by considering various stable dispositional, transitory dispositional and situational factors (Finkelhor, 1984 ; Marshall & Barba”
Examining the modus operandi of sexual offenders against children and its practical implications (2009, methodology): “Wortley and Smallbone (2006) also suggest that parents/caregivers can be better educated through public education programs to recognize danger signals such as offender modus operandi used to seek opportunities to be alone with a child.”
Child Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church (2008, methodology): “Wortley and Smallbone (2006) noted that to reduce the opportunities for child sexual abuse to occur, it is important to increase effort and make such behavior difficult or inconvenient.”