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The United States has witnessed a steep rise in reports, arrests, and media coverage of teachers’ sexual misconduct with students. A new study investigated the impact of perpetrators’ gender, sexuality, and age on perceptions of teacher sexual misconduct. The study found that responses to teachers’ misconduct varied according to certain characteristics, which can influence whether victims report the misconduct.
The study, by researchers at Prairie View A&M University and the University of Nevada, Reno, appears in Feminist Criminology.
“Because sexual abuse of a child or adolescent in any context has substantial psychological, emotional, and physical consequences for the victim, teachers’ sexual misconduct is a serious public health concern,” says Kristan N. Russell, assistant professor of justice studies at Prairie View A&M University, who led the study. “Yet very little research has been done to examine the factors that affect how these c