RE: Male disclosure of abuse

["Munsch, Joyce" <JMunsch@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Joanne,

An article that I co-authored with Charette Dersch may be helpful on some of
these points.  It was a gender analysis of reports of sexual abuse.  We
looked at substantiation rates for the reports involving male and female
victims and did a comparison of child, case, and process variables by
gender.  There also is a discriminant functions analysis of the variables
related to substantiation of reports for males and females.  

The article, Male Victims of Sexual Abuse:  An Analysis of Substantiaion of
Child Protective Services Reports, is published in the Journal of Child
Sexual Abuse (1999, 8(1), 27-48).

Joyce Munsch, Ph.D.
Interim Associate Dean for Research
College of Human Sciences
Texas Tech University
Box 41162
Lubbock, TX 79409-1162
806-742-2404 x270
FAX 806-742-0285



-----Original Message-----
From: Joanne Byrne [mailto:jobyrne@rcsi.ie]
Sent: Monday, July 29, 2002 6:04 AM
To: Child Maltreatment Researchers
Subject: Male disclosure of abuse


Does anyone know of any work done in the area of the disclosure of sexual
abuse/assault by males? 

I am currently looking at the disclosure (and reporting) patterns of males
(and, in particular, looking to see if they have changed at all over the
past century).  

Thanks in advance...

Joanne Byrne
Research Officer
Department of Psychology
Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
The Mercer Building
Mercer Street
Dublin 2
00-353-1-4022137
jobyrne@rcsi.ie