CRIM 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Informal Social Control, Trench Coat, Gartner

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Approximately 60% of assaults against children under the age of six are committed by family members. Close to two-thirds of those assaults are committed by parents , including step parents, foster parents, and adoptive parents. Two-thirds of homicides against children and youth also committed by close family member, 60 percent by the father, and 32 by the mother. One-third of sexual assaults committed by family members. Half of sexual assaults committed by family members when victim is under age of six, slightly less than half when victim is btw ages of 6 and 10. In most cases, offender in family-related sexual assaults are male relatives. More than two-thirds of all abductions are parental abduction. Distribution of offenders fathers and mothers evenly split btw. In most cases of physical assault and homicide against children and youth, the main contributing factor is either frustration or argument.

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