RT Article
T1 Survivors’ Beliefs About the Causes of Sexual Offending: An Australian Study
JF Violence against women
VO 28
IS 2
SP 551
OP 572
A1 Richards, Kelly
LA English
YR 2022
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1783529911
AB Policies designed to prevent sexual (re)offending are often proposed on behalf of survivors of sexual violence. However, no research has examined survivors’ beliefs about the causes of sexual offending. This is a critical gap, because how individuals understand the causes of sexual offending has long been thought to inform their support for particular policy responses. This article presents findings from the first study to specifically examine survivors’ views about the causes of sexual offending, based on interviews with 33 survivors from Australia. It demonstrates that survivors’ beliefs are highly complex and multifaceted, and destabilizes the uniform survivor of governmental imagination.
K1 Attribution Theory
K1 Survivors’ perspectives
K1 Causes of sexual violence
DO 10.1177/1077801221998775