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[33] Factors of parents’ intention to report precursor events of children’s victimization to police and school

○Takumi Imai¹, Mamoru Amemiya¹, Takahito Shimada², Sato Sanai³, Tomoya Ohyama⁴ (1. University of Tsukuba, 2. National Research Institute of Police Science, 3. Sophia University, 4. Tohoku University)

Keywords:precursor events of sex crimes, children, intention to contact, protection motivation theory, victimization of crime

The exposure of children to precursor events of sex crimes, deemed to cause minor damage, may not be reported by parents to police or school. This study identified the factors of parents’ intention to report children’s victimization involving precursor events to police and schools. Ordinal logistic regression analysis was applied to data obtained from a web-based survey of men and women aged 20–59 years who live in Fukuoka City and have an elementary or junior high school student as their first child (n = 518). The results revealed some factors assumed by protection motivation theory—appraised severity of the precursor event, belief in the efficacy of the contacts, and perceived self-efficacy of the contacts were positively related to the parents’ intention to contact police and school.