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David Finkelhor

Children’s Exposure to Violence

October 8, 2009

posted in: prevention

The Office on Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention has just released a report on findings from the National Survey of Children’s Exposure to Violence, the most comprehensive survey to date of children’s exposure to violence in the United States. This survey finds that 6.1 percent of all children surveyed had been sexually victimized in the past year

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Finkelhor on the prevention of childhood sexual abuse

September 8, 2009

posted in: prevention

In the next issue of Future of Children, published by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, well known researcher David Finkelhor discusses child sexual abuse prevention efforts.  The article does not yet appear on the web site, but here is a summary of the article where he discusses the strengths and limitations of sexual offender

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