Epstein Secrets

°utiedge Sexual grooming of children: Review of literature and theoretical considerations Samantha Craven,''* Sarah Brown' & Elizabeth Gilchrist2 'Department of Psychology, Coventry University, Coventry, UK, and 2Department of Psychology, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent, UK Abstract The current review aims to out

ould be able to account for the phenomenon of sexual grooming. Until recently there have been three dominant theories of child sexual abuse, namely Finkelhor's Pre-condition Model (1984); Marshall and Barbaree's Integrated Theory• (1990); and Hall and Hirschman's Quadripartite Model (1992). In 2002, Ward

arly 1970s because of alleged CSA. When questioned 17 years later about a variety of personal topics, in- Address correspondence to Gail S. Goodman. Department of Psychology. University of California. One Shields Ave.. Davis• CA 95616. VOL. la. NO. 2. MARCH 2003 eluding CSA. 38% of the women failed to disclose the docu

of CSA disclosure is gen- der. Previous research suggests that compared with females, males are less likely to disclose (e.g., DeVoe & Faller, 1999; Finkelhor, Hotel- lag. Lewis. & Smith. 1990; Widom & Morris. 1997). Williams and Banyard (1997) uncovered significant gender differences when they compared d

ffects on child eyewitness testimony of factors such as delay (Salmon and Pipe, 1997), repeated questioning •Correspondence to: Dr Gail S. Goodman. Department of Psychology. University of California. One Shields Avenue. Davis. CA 95616 USA. Contract grant sponsor. University of California-University of Otago Student Ex

hat they were not to blame. All the girls in this study were between 8 and 14 years old when the abuse began. In a survey of 521 parents in Boston, Finkelhor (1984) found that 44% of childhood sexual abuse began in this age period. He ascertained, however, that sexual intercourse and oral—genital sexual