David Finkelhor

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David Finkelhor is an American social scientist best known for his research in the field of child sexual abuse . He is Professor of Sociology at the University of New Hampshire and Co-Director of the Family Research Laboratory at the same university.

Career

After graduating from Phillips Exeter Academy in 1964, Finkelhor studied at Harvard and Paris . His Ph.D. in Sociology he graduated from the University of New Hampshire in 1978.

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Since 1977, Finkelhor has dealt intensively with problems that have to do with abuse of children, but also with other forms of violence and mistreatment . For example, Finkelhor introduced the distinction between "simple consent" and informed consent as an argument against sexual acts on children . He describes the developmental psychological inability of children to consent to sexual acts in an informed manner and thus to be sexual partners with equal rights. In addition to moral arguments and evidence of harm, he brings a compelling reason for the prohibition of sexual acts between adults and children. His sourcebook On Child Sexual Abuse from 1986, in which he presented the first major overview research of the studies available up to that point , has become internationally known . In it he stated that, contrary to popular opinion, most studies show that sexual abuse occurs primarily in the near social field and to a large extent: if there are large fluctuations, the studies assume that on average every fourth woman and every seventh man in the Childhood victimized. In addition, Finkelhor presents results that demonstrate the drastic - especially psychological - damage that can be attributed to abuse.

As a researcher, Finkelhor also takes a political stance and repeatedly provides arguments for politics and legislation to reduce violence against children and young people.

Awards

Finkelhor has received awards from the National Institute of Mental Health , the National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect, and the United States Department of Justice , among others . In 1994 he received the Distinguished Child Abuse Professional Award from the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children . In 2004 he received the Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers' Significant Achievement Award , and in 2005 he and his colleagues received the Child Maltreatment Article of the Year award . In 2007 it was named a member of the American Society of Criminology .

According to Kenneth Plummer, he is "probably the most prominent sociologist working in the field of sexual abuse."

Fonts (selection)

  • David Finkelhor: Sexually Victimized Children . New York, 1979a.
  • David Finkelhor: What's wrong with sex between adults and children? Ethics and the problem of sexual abuse . In: American Journal of Orthopsychiatry , 49. pp. 692-697, 1979b.
  • David Finkelhor et al. [Ed.]: A Sourcebook On Child Sexual Abuse . Newbury Park: Sage, 1986, ISBN 0-8039-2748-7
  • David Finkelhor: On the international epidemiology of child sexual abuse . In: G. Amann, R. Wipplinger (Ed.): Sexual Abuse - Overview of Research, Advice and Theory , dgvt-Verlag, Tübingen, 1997.
  • Lisa M. Jones, David Finkelhor, Stephanie Halter: Child Maltreatment Trends in the 1990s: Why Does Neglect Differ From Sexual and Physical Abuse? In: Child Maltreatment , Vol. 11, No. 2, pp. 107-120, 2006.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ David Finkelhor: What's wrong with sex between adults and children? Ethics and the problem of sexual abuse. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 49, 692-697, 1979.
  2. ↑ David Finkelhor et al. [Eds.]: A Sourcebook On Child Sexual Abuse, Newbury Park: Sage, 1986.
  3. ↑ Lisa M. Jones, David Finkelhor, Stephanie Halter: Child Maltreatment Trends in the 1990s: Why Does Neglect Differ From Sexual and Physical Abuse? In: Child Maltreatment, Vol. 11, No. 2, 107-120, 2006.
  4. ↑ Review of Child Sexual Abuse: New Theory and Research, in Contemporary Sociology , Vol. 14, No. 6. (Nov. 1985), pp. 712-713.
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SURNAME Finkelhor, David
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American social scientist
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century