Rethinking research on sexual exploitation of boys: Methodological challenges and recommendations to optimize future knowledge generation.

Abstract:

:Research and policies on child and adolescent sexual exploitation frequently focus on the sexual exploitation of girls and fail to recognize the experiences of sexually exploited boys, including their potentially unique health care and social support needs. This oversight limits the ability of health care and social service providers to offer both targeted and evidence informed care to sexually exploited boys. As a first step in a larger grant to understand the experiences of sexually exploited boys and to develop interventions for this specific population, we conducted a systematic review to address the question, "What is the state of the research on sexually exploited boys internationally?" As we undertook this review, we faced a number of significant challenges that made the process more difficult than anticipated. In this paper we discuss four key methodological challenges we encountered: lack of a consistent definition of child and adolescent sexual exploitation, difficulties in differentiating sexual exploitation as a specific concept within child sexual abuse, failure to disaggregate data usefully across multiple variables, and limited epidemiological studies to inform prevalence. We reflect on how these challenges limited our ability to systematically analyze, synthesize, and interpret the available research. We conclude by making recommendations to improve the state of the research regarding sexually exploited boys with the aim of better informing future policy and practice.

journal_name

Child Abuse Negl

journal_title

Child abuse & neglect

authors

Mitchell K,Moynihan M,Pitcher C,Francis A,English A,Saewyc E

doi

10.1016/j.chiabu.2017.01.019

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2017-04-01 00:00:00

pages

142-151

eissn

0145-2134

issn

1873-7757

pii

S0145-2134(17)30030-3

journal_volume

66

pub_type

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