Exploration of the Community Attitude toward Sex Offender Scale in a Chinese Cultural Context

Wing Hong Chui; Kevin Kwok yin Cheng; Rebecca Ong

doi:10.1007/s11417-013-9174-2

Exploration of the Community Attitude toward Sex Offender Scale in a Chinese Cultural Context

Wing Hong Chui, Kevin Kwok yin Cheng, Rebecca Ong

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Abstract

Chinese culture holds very different beliefs regarding sex offenses, violence against women and punishment against offenders. Little is known however about Chinese attitudes toward sex offenders and sex offending policies. The aim of this study was to validate the Community Attitude toward Sex Offender Scale in the Chinese cultural context. Results from a territory-wide telephone survey in Hong Kong revealed a three factor structure that measures perceptions of sex offenders' social isolation, deviancy and punitive attitudes toward sex offenders. The scale has been renamed as the simplified Community Attitude toward Sex Offender Scale-Chinese (CATSO-C). Each subscale and the total scale showed acceptable internal reliability. This instrument has implications for future cross-cultural studies as well as professionals that work with sex offenders.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	37-48
Number of pages	12
Journal	Asian Journal of Criminology
Volume	9
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s11417-013-9174-2
Publication status	Published - Mar 2014
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Chinese culture
Factor analysis
Scale validation
Sex offenders
Sex offending policies

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Law

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