CRIM 101 Lecture Notes - General Social Survey, Motor Vehicle Theft, Environmental Criminology
21 Apr 2013
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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 the father, and 32% by the mother. One-third of sexual assaults committed by family member. Half of sexual assaults committed by family members when victim is under age of six, slightly less than half when victim is between the ages of six and ten. In most cases, offender in family-related sexual assaults is a male relative; over one third it"s the father, slightly less than one third its 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.
