The Traumatic Experience and Coping Process of Incest Victims- From the Perspective of Social Workers

• Main Authors: HSU,MIN-HSIU, 徐銘綉
• Other Authors: HUANG,FRANK FU-YUAN
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2009
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/62566548572517882928

碩士 === 國立臺北大學 === 犯罪學研究所 === 98 === Due to incest incidents are usually concealed by families, which is not easy to discover, incest victims continually being abused and isolated; meanwhile, the repeated abuse incidents and numerous dark figures which exist cannot be ignored. While incest incidents brought serious physical and psychological trauma to victims, the purpose of this research is to find out the victim experience of incest victims, such as the criminal situations, the reaction interpretations, the incident’s revelations, the motivation of help-seeking, and the coping process. This research is completed by qualitative research method, through interviewing the social workers whom directly provide services to incest victims. By social workers’ treatment experience via abusers, victims, and other family members, the researcher could discover the full image of the family and the family dynamics. At the same time, the researcher use WinMax qualitative analysis system to increase the reliability of this research. There were some findings as listed below: incest incidents have development timing order, and the previous stage will impact the next stage. The researcher classified the timing order to four stages, omen stage, victim stage, impact stage, and recover stage; and the order could overlap each other. Omen stage includes the personality, family structure, criminal situations, and other factors of abuser and victim. Omen does not lead to crime, but if professional authority did not prevent it in-time, the person whom is in the disadvantage situation has highly potential become a victim. Victim stage means the incest incident happened when the criminal situation elements are sufficient. Impact stage means the influence and coping reaction of victims. Recover stage includes the beneficial elements and disadvantage elements which impact the recovery of victims. The result of this research is similar to Routine Activities Theory. This research result supported the situational crime prevention strategy. If we view the victim experience as a coherent process, once the process was interrupted, the incest incident could be prevented. If we decrease the sufficiency of criminal situation elements, the frequency of incest incidents could be decrease at the same time. Therefore, this research provided suggestions of prevention strategy, also mention the importance of prevention for related authorities.