The economic burden of child sexual abuse in the United States
In: Child abuse & neglect: the international journal ; official journal of the International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect, Band 79, S. 413-422
ISSN: 1873-7757
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In: Child abuse & neglect: the international journal ; official journal of the International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect, Band 79, S. 413-422
ISSN: 1873-7757
In: Journal of social work: JSW, Band 12, Heft 3, S. 335-337
ISSN: 1741-296X
In: Sexuality & culture, Band 13, Heft 2, S. 75-90
ISSN: 1936-4822
In: Feminist theory: an international interdisciplinary journal, Band 2, Heft 3, S. 349-361
ISSN: 1741-2773
In: Feminism & psychology: an international journal, Band 7, Heft 3, S. 334-339
ISSN: 1461-7161
In: The British journal of social work, Band 26, Heft 1, S. 37-52
ISSN: 1468-263X
In: The international & comparative law quarterly: ICLQ, Band 39, Heft 2, S. 413-419
ISSN: 1471-6895
In: Feminist review, Band 28, Heft 1, S. 56-64
ISSN: 1466-4380
In: Feminist review, Heft 28, S. 56
ISSN: 1466-4380
In: Children Australia, Band 34, Heft 3, S. 18-23
ISSN: 2049-7776
Thousands of Australian children are sexually abused every year, and the effects can be severe and long lasting. Not only is child sexual abuse a public health problem, but the acts inflicted are criminal offences. Child sexual abuse usually occurs in private, typically involving relationships featuring a massive imbalance in power and an abuse of that power. Those who inflict child sexual abuse seek to keep it secret, whether by threats or more subtle persuasion. As a method of responding to this phenomenon and in an effort to uncover cases of sexual abuse that otherwise would not come to light, governments in Australian States and Territories have enacted legislation requiring designated persons to report suspected child sexual abuse. With Western Australia's new legislation having commenced on 1 January 2009, every Australian State and Territory government has now passed these laws, so that there is now, for the first time, an almost harmonious legislative approach across Australia to the reporting of child sexual abuse. Yet there remain differences in the State and Territory laws regarding who has to make reports, which cases of sexual abuse are required to be reported, and whether suspected future abuse must be reported. These differences indicate that further refinement of the laws is required.
In: Child maltreatment: journal of the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children, Band 28, Heft 4, S. 621-633
ISSN: 1552-6119
We examined the effects of child race, perpetrator race, and abuse disclosure status (within the context of a formal forensic interview) on abuse substantiation outcomes. Specifically, we coded child sexual abuse disclosure, abuse substantiation, and race of 315 children (80% girls, M age = 10, age range = 2–17; 75% White, 9% Black, 12% Biracial, 3% Hispanic, 1% Asian) who underwent a child forensic interview in a Midwestern child advocacy center. Supporting hypotheses, abuse substantiation was more likely in cases involving (a) abuse disclosure (vs. no disclosure), (b) White children (vs. children of color), and (c) perpetrators of color (vs. White perpetrators). Also supporting hypotheses, the effect of abuse disclosure on increased abuse substantiation was greater for White children than for children of color. This research suggests that even when children of color disclose their experiences of sexual abuse, they nonetheless face barriers to abuse substantiation.