Child abuse at the hands of Scout leaders, priests or coaches is far less common than abuse of children or adolescents by family members or other adults. That’s the primary finding of new research from UNH professor of sociology David Finkelhor, contradicting media-fueled notions of organizations that serve youth being hotbeds of abuse.
“Youth-serving organizations did not appear to be high-risk settings for kids. They were lower than other environments that kids were operating in,” says Finkelhor of the study, published earlier this month in JAMA Pediatrics.
Finkelhor and his coauthors, including Crimes Against Children Research Center colleagues researcher Anne Shattuck and professor of sociology Heather Turner, combined data from three national population telephone surveys to create a...
Child abuse at the hands of Scout leaders, priests or coaches is far less common than abuse of children or adolescents by family members or other adults. That’s the primary finding of new research from UNH professor of sociology David Finkelhor, contradicting media-fueled notions of organizations that serve youth being hotbeds of abuse.
“Youth-serving organizations did not appear to be high-risk settings for kids. They were lower than other environments that kids were operating in,” says Finkelhor of the study, published earlier this month in JAMA Pediatrics.
Finkelhor and his coauthors, including Crimes Against Children Research Center colleagues researcher Anne Shattuck and professor of sociology Heather Turner, combined data from three national population telephone surveys to create a...