Child sexual abuse: Theoretical approaches

Abstract

The issue of sexual violence against children is the subject of serious scientific research for several decades. Moreover, it is a topic that in recent years also attracts the attention of the general public, both in the world and in our society. However, local authors have not seriously dealt with etiology and psychodynamics of pedophilia. At the same time, there is plenty of literature, mainly foreign, which is precisely oriented to the explanation of etiology of various forms of sexual abuse of children, focusing on the etiological dimen­sions of pedophilia and characteristics of perpetrators. Basing on the review and analysis of available national and international literature, the aim of this paper is to present the leading scientific theories and concepts that offer an explanation of the phenomenon of child sexual abuse. Thus, it will be primarily given review of biological explanation, then Finklehor's preconditional model, Quadripartite model of Hall and Hirshman, as well as Eliot's papers that explain the nature of abuse of child pornography.

Problematika seksualnog nasilja nad decom već nekoliko decenija predstavlja predmet ozbiljnih naučnih istraživanja. Sem toga, to je tema koja poslednjih godina zaokuplja i pažnju šire javnosti, kako u svetu, tako i u našem društvu. Međutim, domaći autori se do sada nisu ozbiljnije bavili etiologijom i psihodinamikom pedofilije. Istovremeno, postoji obilje literature, prevashodno inostrane, koja je upravo orijentisana na eksplanaciju etiologije različitih vidova seksualne zloupotrebe dece, sa fokusom na etiološke dimenzije pedofilije i karakteristike izvršilaca. Rad ima za cilj da na osnovu pregleda i analize dostupne domaće i strane literature prikaže vodeće naučne teorije i koncepcije koje nude objašnjenje fenomena seksualne zlo-upotrebe dece. Tako će u prvom redu biti dat prikaz biologističkih pristupa eksplanacije, Finkelhorovog prekondicionalnog modela, kvadripartitnog modela Hala i Hiršmana, kao i radova Eliota koji objašnjavaju prirodu zloupotrebe dečije pornografije.