Prevention-enhancing interactions: a Critical Interpretive Synthesis of the evidence about children who sexually abuse other children.

Publisher: Wiley Country of Publication: United States NLM ID: 9306359 Publication Model: Print-Electronic Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1365-2524 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 09660410 NLM ISO Abbreviation: Health Soc Care Community Subsets: MEDLINE

Publication: [Hoboken, NJ] : Wiley
Original Publication: Oxford : Blackwell Scientific Publications, c1993-

Child Abuse, Sexual* ; Child Behavior*; Australia ; Canada ; Child ; Humans ; New Zealand ; Sexual Behavior ; United Kingdom

There is a growing interest in English-speaking jurisdictions, including Australia, North America, Canada, the United Kingdom and New Zealand, about the prevention of sexual abuse perpetrated by children against other children. The aim of this review was to identify opportunities for research, policy and practice which could enhance the prevention agenda relating to the perpetration of sexual abuse by children through conducting a Critical Interpretive Synthesis. Eleven electronic databases were searched in the period from 22 April to 23 May 2013 and included: SocINDEX, Social Services Abstracts, Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts, Family and Society Studies Worldwide, Project Muse, PsychINFO, Family and Society Plus, Jstor, Expanded Academic ASAP, Web of Science and Google Scholar. Key individual journals were also searched, including Child Abuse and Neglect and the Journal of Interpersonal Violence, as well as the grey literature. The search was guided by the research question: How could the prevention agenda relating to sexual abuse perpetrated by children be enhanced? The systematic literature search yielded 3323 titles, and 34 of these papers were included in the final synthesis. The authors identified five domains operating in the evidence base: characteristics, causes, communications, interventions and treatments. A synthesising construct emerged from the review: prevention-enhancing interactions. This construct referred to the potential for enhancing the prevention agenda which exists as the evidence domains interact with one another, and with the public health model of prevention. The authors consider this review to be a timely contribution to the current agenda pertaining to sexual abuse perpetrated by children. It provides researchers, policy makers and practitioners in the field with an evidence-informed conceptualisation of opportunities for enhancing prevention work.
(© 2015 John Wiley & Sons Ltd.)

Keywords: Critical Interpretive Synthesis; children; intervention; juvenile sex offenders; perpetrators; prevention; qualitative systematic review; sexual abuse

Date Created: 20150623 Date Completed: 20180409 Latest Revision: 20181202

20250114

10.1111/hsc.12260

26094766