Vida Kilikevičienė, Ieva Viltrakytė
Abstract
This research is based on the material and data related to the expertise work implemented at the Children and Adolescents Psychiatry Unit of the State Forensic Psychiatry Service during two year period. It focuses on the complex forensic psychiatric-psychological expertises of children who were victims of the sexual crimes, and in particular on the expertises which were made in the period from the second half of 2009 till the first half of 2011.
All the expertise work was implemented at the Children and Adolescents Psychiatry Unit, and it might be assumed that the biggest part of data concerning the sexual violence against children and adolescents is collected namely in our unit. The other institutions, health care institutions have not such an access to the material which shows the scale of children and adolescents abuse in Lithuania.
In this research, it is attempted to focus on:
- risk factors of the sexual crimes against children;
- the ways in which children reveal the facts that the sexual crimes had been committed against them;
- characteristic features of the sexual crimes against children and their amount, frequency, age groups in which they had been committed;
- analysis of the character of those crimes (invasive sexual actions, abuse actions);
- what part of children who come for the psychiatric-psychological forensic expertise tell or not tell about the coercion or sexual abuse they had suffered; what concretely they tell;
- what part of children get support from the closest people and in their environment;
- if children are inclined to lie speaking about the sexual abuse they have experienced.
Article in Lithuanian
doi:10.5200/sm-hs.2012.021
Keyword(s): children, adolescents, children and adolescent forensic psychiatry, sexual crimes against children, risk factors of the sexual crimes against children, sexual coercion, sexual children abuse, sexual violence against children
DOI: 10.5200/262
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