CRIM 101 Lecture : Family Violence.docx

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRIM 101
• Professor: Barry Cartwright

Document Summary

Approximately 60% of assaults against children under the age of six are committed by family members. Close to two-thirds of those assaults are committed by parents (including step-parents, foster- parents, and adoptive parents) Two-thirds of homicides against children and youth also committed by close family member; 60% committed by father, 32% committed by mother. One-third of sexual assaults committed by family members. Half of sexual assaults committed by family members when victim is under age of six, slightly less than half when victim is between ages of six and ten. In most cases, offender in family-related sexual assaults is a male relative; over one-third is father, slightly less than one-third is brothers, rest are other male relatives. More than two-thirds of all abductions are parental abductions. Distribution of offenders evenly split between fathers and mothers. In most cases of physical assault and homicide against children and youth, the main contributing factor (or precursor) is either frustration or an argument.