The Sexual Exploitation of Missing Children: A Research Review
| dc.creator | Finkelhor, D., & Hotaling, G.T. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2013-09-19T16:25:57Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2013-09-19T16:25:57Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1988 | |
| dc.description | This review based upon empirical research findings examines the prevalence, dynamics, and short- and long-term effects of sexual exploitation of missing children. Three categories of missing children are studied: runaways, the largest group of missing children; victims of parental kidnapping; and victims of family abductions. Between 11 and 23 percent of runaways become involved in prostitution; once involved in prostitution, runaways are more vulnerable to rape and pornography. Runaways at the most risk of engaging in prostitution are those who leave home frequently and longer each time, those with a history of serious sexual abuse, those from dysfunctional families, and males who describe themselves as homosexual or bisexual. There is no evidence that victims of parental abduction are at greater risk of sexual exploitation than children in the general population. Sexual abuse sometimes accompanies nonfamily abductions, but public fears may have exaggerated this connection; when sexual abuse does occur during nonfamily abduction, the effects on these children are probably quite severe and long lasting, with the presence of many symptoms more than 4 years later. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11212/152 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://www.eric.ed.gov/PDFS/ED312582.pdf | |
| dc.publisher | Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention | |
| dc.subject | Abuse-sexual | |
| dc.subject | Child welfare -- statistics | |
| dc.subject | Exploitation | |
| dc.subject | Missing children | |
| dc.subject | Pornography | |
| dc.subject | Prostitution | |
| dc.title | The Sexual Exploitation of Missing Children: A Research Review | |
| dc.type | Text |