Abstract
Sexual harassment is increasingly prevalent. This is a concern because most sex offenders are teenagers. Sexual harassment committed by adolescents is related to the psychological development they are undergoing. Adolescence is a transitional period between children and adults characterized by ongoing processes of change in biological, psychological and sociological terms. Adolescent students live their lives in school throughout the day, if calculated spending about 7 hours/day at school This study aims to describe the sexual abuse behavior of adolescents. The research sample consisted of 182 vocational students who were selected by the proportional random sampling technique. The instrument used was a scale of sexual harassment behavior. The research instrument was tested for validity and reliability The data analysis in this study used a quantitative approach with descriptive methods. The results showed that the acts of adolescent sexual harassment, in general, were in the high category of 76 students (42%). The implications of this study are as a basis for counselors to prevent acts of teenage sexual harassment in schools.
Highlights
Acts of sexual harassment among adolescents are increasing, which is shown by sexual violence is increasingly rampant
Sexual crimes that occur can be classified into fifteen groups, namely: (1) rape, (2) sexual intimidation including threats or attempted rape, (3) sexual harassment, (4) sexual exploitation, (5) trafficking of women for sexual purposes, (6) forced prostitution, (7) sexual slavery, (8) forced marriage, including divorce, (9) forced pregnancy, (10) forced abortion, (11) forced contraception and sterilization, (12) sexual torture, (13) ) inhuman and sexual nuanced punishment, (14) traditional sexual nuanced practices that endanger or discriminate against women, and (15) sexual control (Komnas Perempuan, 2015)
Categories of acts of sexual harassment were divided into five categories, namely very high, high, medium, low, and very low, description of sexual harassment can be seen in the following Table 1
Summary
Acts of sexual harassment among adolescents are increasing, which is shown by sexual violence is increasingly rampant. Based on acts of sexual crimes among Indonesian children from one year to the it tends to increase. The National Commission for Child Protection (KPAI) (2014) found that from 2014 to 2019 there were 21,869,797 cases of violations of the rights of children, amounting to 42-58% of these violations were sexual crimes. Victims of sexual crimes against children have increased every year, marked in 2014 42% of sexual crimes occurred, 2015 occurred 58% of sexual crimes, and 2016 occurred 62% of sexual crimes, in 2017 there was a fairly high increase with 62% of sexual crimes. While in 2018 (January-April), there were 600 cases or 876 victims, and 137 cases of child perpetrators
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