As “baby boomers” age through the lifecourse, elderly American's are projected to comprise more than 20% of the U.S. population by 2030 (Ortman, Velkoff, & Hogan, 2014). With a dramatic population increase anticipated, elder abuse and maltreatment has emerged as a focus of violence research. Elder sexual abuse is perhaps the least perceived, acknowledged, detected, and reported type of victimization (Roberto, Teaster, & Nikzad, 2007). The present work explores elder sexual abuse, drawing on 10 years (2007–2016) of officially reported incidents from National Incident Reporting System (NIBRS) data, to address several of the limitations identified by the National Research Council (2003) including: inconsistent definitions, unclear and inadequate measures, and a lack of population-based data. Results support significant differences in elder sexual abuse profiles across victim and perpetrator sex, age, race, relationship, residence, and offense type, highlighting the need to examine contextual differences in offenders, victims, and incident-based characteristics. Intervention, policy needs, and prevention are discussed.

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老年人的性受害：对官方报告的事件的实证分析，2007-2016年。

随着“婴儿潮一代”在整个人生过程中的年龄增长，预计到2030年，美国老年人口将占美国人口的20％以上（Ortman，Velkoff和Hogan，2014年）。随着人口的急剧增加，对老年人的虐待和虐待已成为暴力研究的重点。老年人性虐待可能是受害最少的，被公认，发现和报告的类型（Roberto，Teaster和＆Nikzad，2007年）。本工作利用国家事件报告系统（NIBRS）数据正式报告的事件10年（2007-2016年），探索了老年人的性虐待行为，以解决美国国家研究委员会（2003）确定的一些局限性，包括：定义不一致，措施不明确和不充分，以及缺乏基于人群的数据。结果支持受害人和犯罪者的性别，年龄，种族，关系，居住地和犯罪类型在老年人性虐待方面的显着差异，强调需要检查罪犯，受害人和基于事件的特征的背景差异。讨论了干预措施，政策需求和预防措施。