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Getting into the Script of Adult Child Sex Offenders and Mapping out Situational Prevention Measures
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The current study describes and examines the crime-commission process followed in child sex offending. There are two major aims in this study. The first aim is to propose a script model in child sex offending. The second aim is to show the relevance of completing crime scripts to identify situational crime prevention measures. One of the weaknesses in the current crime script literature is the absence of proposed prevention measures. Besides Cornish, only Clarke and Newman have used crime scripts for its main purpose, which is to offer a way to develop situational crime prevention techniques. In this study, situational prevention measures are mapped onto the crime-commission process in child sex offending.
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“First, proactive and involved parenting with appropriate levels of monitoring can create safer environments in which there are fewer opportunities for children to be approached sexually, groomed or victimized (Leclerc et al., 2011;Smallbone et al., 2008).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Leclerc, B., Wortley, R., & Smallbone, S.
- Affiliations
- School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Griffith University, Queensland, Australia,
- Griffith University (AU)
- ORCID
- Wortley, Richard
- Venue
- Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2011-03-21
- Volume
- 48
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 209-237
- ISSN
- 0022-4278 (ISSN-L)
- 1552-731X
- OpenAlex
- W2166877093
- Cited by
- 189
- References
- 41
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 25.69
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency (publishedVersion)
- UCL Discovery (University College London) (submittedVersion)
- Griffith Research Online (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Crime Patterns and Interventions
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending
- Social Sciences › Law › Criminal Justice and Penology
- Keywords
- crime scripts, situational crime prevention, prevention measures
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