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Theories on why sexual abuse happens

Author: South Eastern CASA

Tags: Offending Behaviours, Theory and Therapy

This article is written for women and assumes a male offender, however SECASA acknowledges that both men and women can be survivors of sexual abuse and that offenders can be male and female.

An examination of the major theoretical approaches on why sexual assault happens.

Contents

• Introduction
• The psychoanalytic approach
• The victim precipitation approach
• The family dysfunction approach
• Psychological approaches
• The feminist approach
• The four pre conditions model