Children and Young People Who Sexually Abuse Others

302 Pages·1999·0.96 MB·English

by  Marcus Erooga

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE
WHO SEXUALLY ABUSE OTHERS
Systems for the protection of children from abuse have been in place for
some decades, but only during the 1990s has there been an awarenessin
theUKthatsomechildrenandyoungpeoplealsosexuallyabuse.
Children and Young People Who Sexually Abuse Others brings together
leading professionals experienced in working with children and young
people and their families in a range of settings. Reflecting the develop-
ment, achievement and challenges of current practice, they present
up-to-date models of policy and practice based on key research findings
about incidence, prevalence and characteristics of young abusers.
Emphasising the importance of multi-disciplinary working, the book
addresses:
• policy and service development in the light of recent legislation and
establishment of youth offending teams;
• assessment and treatment work with individuals, in groups and with
families;
• issues for young people in out of home settings;
• a programme specifically for working with children under 10 years
old;
• female adolescent abusers;
• evaluation of treatment outcomes;
• the challenge of developing empowered and empowering practice in
this area of work.
With a practical approach clearly linking theory to practice, Children and
Young People Who Sexually Abuse Others is an accessible and stimulating
book which will be invaluable to all those who want to understandcurrent
thinking and practice and will be of particular value to practitioners,
managersandpolicymakersinvolvedinchildprotection, criminal and youth
justice, psychiatry, psychology and counselling as well as to students in the
fields of health and social care.
Marcus Erooga is an NSPCC Area Children’s Services Manager and a
Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Huddersfield. Helen Masson
is a Principal Lecturer in Social Work at the University of Huddersfield.
They are co-editors of The Journal of Sexual Aggression.

CHILDREN AND
YOUNG PEOPLE
WHO SEXUALLY
ABUSE OTHERS
Challenges and Responses
Edited by Marcus Erooga
and Helen Masson
Foreword by Valerie Howarth
London and New York
First published 1999
by Routledge
11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE
Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada
by Routledge
29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001
Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group
This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2001.
© 1999 Marcus Erooga and Helen Masson, selection and editorial matter;
individual chapters © the contributors.
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced
or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means,
now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording,
or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission
in writing from the publishers.
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Children and young people who sexually abuse others: challenges and
responses / edited by Marcus
Erooga and Helen Masson.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
1. Teenage sex offenders–Great Britain. 2. Teenage sex
offenders–Rehabilitation–Great Britain. 3. Teenage child molesters–
Great Britain. 4. Teenage child molesters–Rehabilitation–Great Britain.
5. Social work with juvenile delinquents–Great Britain. 6. Child sexual
abuse–Great Britain–Prevention. I. Erooga, Marcus, 1957– . II. Masson,
Helen C.
HV9067 S48C55 1999
364.36–dc21 99–20647
CIP
ISBN 0–415–19604–3 (hbk)
ISBN 0–415–19605–1 (pbk)
ISBN 0-203-01427-8 Master e-book ISBN
ISBN 0-203-18421-1 (Glassbook Format)
DEDICATED TO CAROLINE,
BILL, SAM AND TOM

CONTENTS
List of illustrations ix
Notes on contributors xi
Foreword, Valerie Howarth, Director of ChildLine xv
Preface xix
1 Children and young people who sexually abuse others:
incidence, characteristics and causation 1
HELEN MASSON AND MARCUS EROOGA
2 ‘Is there a strategy out there’? Policy and management
perspectives on young people who sexually abuse others 19
TONY MORRISON
3 Working with young people: linking policy and practice 36
ALIX BROWN
4 Placement provision and placement decisions:
resources and processes 51
NICK BANKES, KATE DANIELS AND CARLTON QUARTLY
5 Looking after young sexual abusers: child protection, risk
management and risk reduction 67
KEVIN EPPS
6 Assessment issues 86
DAVID WILL
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CONTENTS
7 Providing individual psychotherapy for young
sexual abusers of children 104
EILEEN VIZARD AND JUDITH USISKIN
8 Working in groups with young men who have
sexually abused others 124
BOBBIE PRINT AND DAVID O’CALLAGHAN
9 Working with families of young sexual abusers:
assessment and intervention issues 146
JOHN BURNHAM, JULIA MOSS, JEFF DEBELLE AND
ROS JAMIESON
10 Work with adolescent females who sexually abuse:
similarities and differences 168
ANNE BLUES, CAROLE MOFFAT AND PAULA TELFORD
11 Stop and Think: changing sexually aggressive behaviour
in young children 183
LINDA BUTLER AND COLIN ELLIOTT
12 Evaluation of adolescent sexual abusers 204
RICHARD BECKETT
13 Empowered practice with young people who sexually
abuse 225
SIMON HACKETT
References 244
Index 268
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ILLUSTRATIONS
Tables
8.1 G-MAP groupwork programme 140
13.1 The interactional dynamics of impact in work with
young people who abuse 234
Figures
1.1 Finkelhor’s four preconditions model of sexually
abusive behaviour 11
1.2 The sexual abuse cycle 13
8.1 G-MAP group programme blocks of work 139
9.1 Abuse and empathy as understood through multiple
levels of experience 152
9.2 Abuse and empathy as understood in the ‘seascape’
of experience 153
11.1 A basic starting triangle 194
13.1 The interactional dynamics of the impact model 231
13.2 Contributions to empowered practice 236
13.3 Sources of power triangle 237
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