Het profiel van de seksuele pleger in de sport op basis van een slachtofferenquête

auteurs Tine Vertommen
  Jarl Kampen
  Nicolette Schippervan Veldhoven
  Kasia Uzieblo
  Filip Van Den Eede
tijdschrift Panopticon (ISSN: 771-1409)
jaargang Jaargang | Volume 39
aflevering Issue 5. September / October 2018
onderdeel Artikel | Article
publicatie datum 15 november 2018
taal Dutch
pagina 407
keywords seksueel grensoverschrijdend gedrag, childhood sexual violence, perpetrator characteristics, sport, plegerkenmerken
samenvatting

Profiling sexual offenders in sport based on a victim survey
Based on the reports of 578 Flemish and Dutch athletes, the current article reports on perpetrator characteristics of childhood sexual violence in sport. Using retrospective web survey design, information was gathered about the number as well as individual descriptive characteristics (sex, age, and role in the sport organization) of sexual perpetrators as retrospectively reported by the victim-respondents. This information was then clustered to provide an overview of the most common perpetrator profiles. Perpetrators are predominantly male peer athletes or other known persons in the sport organization, and not the coach. However, acts of sexual violence committed by a coach are significantly more severe than those committed by peer athletes. The presented findings shed new light on sexual offenders in sport, nuancing the predominant belief that the male coach as the main perpetrator while providing nuanced information that can be utilized to improve child protection and safeguarding initiatives in sport.

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