背景:兄弟姐妹性虐待(SSA)是一种普遍存在的家庭内性暴力形式。对现有文献的回顾强调了由于定义上的不一致,对全面理解这一罪行的持续挑战,小样本量,数据约束,方法上的缺陷,包括报告做法,缺乏经验审查。以前的研究依赖于回顾性研究,不具有代表性,临床,或均质样品。
目的:本工作更新了有关SSA的知识,解决了先前研究中的几个持续局限性,并为当代受害者提供了,罪犯,和基于事件的概况,以促进未来风险评估的途径,预防,和干预策略。
方法:本研究,探索性和描述性的,借鉴了国家事件报告系统(NIBRS)最近五年(2018-2022年)的数据,最大的可用数据集(N=30,640),包含向执法部门报告的SSA事件。
结果:发现不同年龄的性别差异显著,种族,受害者受伤,进攻类型,和关系。女性受害者更有可能遭受年长兄弟姐妹的虐待,成年后受害的可能性是男性的近2.5倍。女性受害者也更有可能报告受伤,然而,在SSA事件中,与男性受害者相比,遭受强行渗透的可能性较小。
结论:研究结果证实了持续需要继续完善SSA定义标准,which,反过来,将导致更好的识别和事件报告。此外,这里的研究结果强调了考虑年龄和性别动态以指导风险评估的重要性,干预,和预防策略。
BACKGROUND: Sibling sexual abuse (SSA) is a pervasive form of intrafamilial sexual violence. A review of existing literature underscores ongoing challenges to comprehensive understanding of this offense due to definitional inconsistencies, small sample sizes, data constraints, methodological shortcomings including reporting practices, and a dearth of empirical scrutiny. Previous studies have relied on retrospective, non-representative, clinical, or homogeneous samples.
OBJECTIVE: The present work updates knowledge on SSA addressing several persistent limitations in previous studies and offering contemporary victim, offender, and incident-based profiles to promote avenues for future risk assessment, prevention, and intervention strategies.
METHODS: This study, both exploratory and descriptive, draws on the five most recent years (2018-2022) of data from the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS), the largest available dataset (N = 30,640), containing SSA incidents reported to law enforcement.
RESULTS: Significant sex differences were noted across age, race, victim injury, offense type, and relationship. Female victims were more likely to experience abuse from older siblings and were nearly 2.5 times more likely to be victimized as an adult than their male counterparts. Female victims were also more likely to report injury, yet less likely than male victims to experience forcible penetration during an SSA incident.
CONCLUSIONS: Findings substantiate the ongoing need for continued refinement of SSA definitional criteria, which, in turn, will lead to greater identification and reporting of incidents. Moreover, findings here underscore the importance of considering age and gender dynamics to guide risk assessment, intervention, and prevention strategies.