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K-12 ADULT SEXUAL MISCONDUCT PREVENTION

CHARACTERISTICS AND TACTICS OF ASM PERPETRATORS

Adult sexual misconduct (ASM) can be perpetrated by adults in all job categories within schools (Shakeshaft, 2004b ²). For the 2001 Hostile Hallways: Bullying, Teasing, and Sexual Harassment at School survey, representatives from the American Association of University Women interviewed a nationally representative sample of 2,064 public school students in grades 8-11. They investigated students’ experiences of sexual harassment (defined as sexual teasing, bullying, and unwanted touching), including the jobs held by the perpetrators. Students reported that unwanted sexual contact most commonly originated from

teachers (18 percent);
coaches (15 percent);
substitute teachers (13 percent); and
bus drivers (12 percent).

ASM research suggests that perpetrators who work in schools target students using the same methods as those who target children in other settings: They zero in on those who are vulnerable (Shakeshaft, 2004b). Perpetrators are calculating in their approach; they isolate, manipulate, and lie to children to gain sexual contact and make them feel complicit (Robins, 2000).

² Please note that concerns have been raised about both the methodology of Charol Shakeshaft’s report, “Educator Sexual Misconduct: A Synthesis of Existing Literature (PDF)” and the extremely broad way that sexual abuse and misconduct were defined. In addition, although the subtitle of the report is “a synthesis of existing literature,” the report is not a true meta-analysis. However, former Deputy Secretary of Education Eugene W. Hickok noted in the preface of the report that the topic is of critical importance and that releasing it was clearly in the public’s interest. Learn more here: http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1331.

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