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young People with harmful sexual behaviour

young People with harmful sexual behaviour. ISSUES, RESEARCH, PRACTICE Josie Phillips, Research Associate. a nd the Ambulance Down in the Valley. AIM: Context – stories and statistics Issues – protection, prosecution and welfare Research – past and present. Context – families.

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young People with harmful sexual behaviour

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  1. young People with harmful sexual behaviour ISSUES, RESEARCH, PRACTICE Josie Phillips, Research Associate and the Ambulance Down in the Valley

  2. AIM: • Context – stories and statistics • Issues – protection, prosecution and welfare • Research – past and present

  3. Context – families Case – siblings and sexual harm

  4. Research – the wider picture Three significant developments contributing to research about sexual offending • Child sexual abuse – incidence, impacts, consequences Incidence - between one-quarter and one-third of sexual offences are committed by people under 21. Prediction and prevention - between 36% - 56% adult offenders first committed sexual offences as adolescents (Taylor, 2003)

  5. Significance • Seeing sexual abuse everywhere • Over and under-reacting • All sex is bad • All sex is experimentation • Myth – young people with harmful sexual behaviour will grow into sexual offending • Tensions – welfare and child protection v criminal justice

  6. Significance • Policy and practice, multi-agency • NCH Report – 1992 • Differentiation between adults and young people – changing models • Procedure and legislation - Children Act 1989, Sex Offender Act 1997, Crime and Disorder Act 1998, Working together • Language • Research and training • Risk Assessment & Intervention models

  7. What have we learned? • Most of the young offenders are male • but not all. • Age - children under 10 • Diversity: • Ethnicity – inequality of access to interventions • “Learning disability” • Prosecuted/not prosecuted • Trauma histories • All types of abuse, including domestic violence.

  8. Dual needs – victim and abuser • Importance of context and history • Characteristics • Eg Isolation, lack of social skills, conduct disorder • Motivation • Outcomes • Current research Heterogeneous group

  9. ESRC research – initial results • Combined sites: • 700 cases in all. • 93% white. • Other ethnicities: .2-3%. • Ethnicity not recorded for 240 cases.

  10. Results cont. • 97% male, 3% female. • 38% learning disabled. • 50% victim of sexual abuse themselves. • 50% victim of other type of abuse.

  11. Results cont. – types of behaviour • 84% inappropriate touching. • 50% non-contact offences. • 52% penetrative offences. • 18% violence or force.

  12. Results cont. – victims and prosecutions • Victims: 19% male, 51% female, 30% both. • Victims: 53% extra-familial, 25% intra-familial, 22% both. • 42% had caution or conviction.

  13. Case - What would happen now? • Multi-agency response in partnership with family – criminal justice and welfare • Planning, separate assessment, separate services • Holistic view • Focus on safety planning • Focus on treatment and prevention and best possible outcomes for victims and young offenders

  14. Ambulance Down in the Valley Joseph Malins, 1895

  15. The end, thank you. Josephine.phillips@durham.ac.uk

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