아동복지시설에서의 아동학대 피해에 관한 연구

The Study on Victim of Child Maltreatment in the Child Welfare Institutions

This article reports on the analysis of the characteristics of substantiated instances of maltreatment in child welfare institution. The data was collected from 2010 to 2012 by the Child Protective System(CPS). For three years, 369 children( 60% female, 40% male) in 90 institutions were substantiated. The mean age of children was 12.8 years old and perpetrator was 42.8 years old. The proportion of females in perpetrators(53.5%) were somewhat higher than that of male. More than half of the perpetrators was instructor(51.8%) and then that was followed by director(28.1%) and others(20.2%). Most of characteristic of victims was adaptive behavior(60.0%) and perpetrators was a care background(49.2%). Also, the proportion of multiple type(60.0%) were higher than that of single type in abuse type. The children who was exposed to physical abuse or emotional abuse experienced one time, while who was exposed to sexual abuse or neglect experienced more than two times. The audio, video, or pictures for maltreatment conditions and investigation of situation was important to decision of maltreatment in child welfare institution.