Background

Research has largely overlooked expressions of reluctance in commercially sexually exploited adolescent (“CSEA”) victims. This is problematic because gaining information from known victims is of the utmost importance in order to better serve the needs of current and potential future victims.

Objective

The current study proposes a novel conceptualization of reluctance based on CSEA victims’ transcripts from police interviews and courtroom examinations.

Participants and setting

The study examined police interviews (n = 8 victims, 1558 utterances) and courtroom transcripts (n = 6 victims, 1961 utterances) conducted with female CSEA victims aged 15–17 years old (M_age = 16.29). The victims were associated with the same trafficker and were thus interviewed by the same group of police officers, and for those who testified, were questioned by the same lawyers in court.

Results

Sixteen reluctance tactics were identified, including several that have been overlooked in previous literature. The current reluctance measure identified more reluctance than previous studies’ reluctance measures. Reluctance was much more common in police interviews (26.4%; p < .001) than in court (5.5%), and if victims were more reluctant in the police interviews, they were less likely to appear in court (p = .001).

Conclusions

These findings have implications for future conceptualizations of reluctance, and illustrate the importance of considering the age of the victim and the circumstances under which the victim is questioned in identifying reluctance.

中文翻译：

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在商业性剥削的青少年中识别新的不情愿形式

背景

研究在很大程度上忽略了商业性剥削青少年（“CSEA”）受害者的不情愿表达。这是有问题的，因为从已知受害者那里获取信息对于更好地满足当前和潜在未来受害者的需求至关重要。

客观的

目前的研究提出了一种新的不情愿概念化，该概念基于 CSEA 受害者的警方面谈和法庭考试成绩单。

参与者和设置

该研究检查了对15-17 岁的女性 CSEA 受害者（M_年龄= 16.29）进行的警方采访（ n = 8 名受害者，1558 次言论）和法庭记录（n = 6 名受害者，1961 次言论）。受害者与同一人贩子有关，因此接受了同一组警察的采访，而作证的人则在法庭上接受了同一律师的讯问。

结果

确定了 16 种不情愿的策略，其中包括一些在以前的文献中被忽视的策略。当前的不情愿测量比以前的研究的不情愿测量确定了更多的不情愿。不情愿在警察面谈中（26.4%； p < .001）比在法庭上（5.5%）更常见，如果受害者在警察面谈中更不情愿，他们出庭的可能性就更小（p = .001） .

结论

这些发现对未来不情愿的概念化产生了影响，并说明了考虑受害者年龄和受害者在识别不情愿时被质疑的情况的重要性。