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MacKay, Tommy. "False allegations of child abuse in contested family law cases: The implications for psychological practice." Educational and Child Psychology 31, no. 3 (September 2014): 85–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.53841/bpsecp.2014.31.3.85.

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Educational psychologists are working increasingly with children who are not only from families where there has been divorce or separation but who are also the subject of contested family law cases. This study investigates 107 children from 72 families in which residence issues had been previously settled but which were subject to ongoing disputes regarding contact or change of residence. Such cases are marked in general by allegations and counter-allegations of each parent in regard to the historical or current conduct of the other. This study considers the frequency of allegations of child physical or sexual abuse in cases of this kind, with a particular focus on false allegations. It also notes the high prevalence of mental health problems among the children involved in the disputes. Implications for educational psychology practice are examined.

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Terry, Karen J. "Stained Glass." Criminal Justice and Behavior 35, no. 5 (May 2008): 549–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0093854808314339.

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This article presents the results of the Nature and Scope of Child Sexual Abuse by Catholic Priests from 1950 to 2002. Ninety-seven percent of dioceses (representing 99% of diocesan priests) and 64% of religious communities (representing 83% of religious priests) responded to the request for data. Findings showed that 4,392 priests (4%) had allegations of abuse, 10,667 victims made allegations, and the Church paid (at the time surveys were completed) $572.5 million for legal and treatment fees and as compensation to the victims (more than $1.3 billion to date). The study also provided information on the circumstances of the abuse (e.g., types of sexual acts, location, duration), the offenders (e.g., year of ordination, age, ministry duties, other behavioral problems), the victims (e.g., age and gender, family situation), and the dioceses (e.g., differences in abuse rates by region and population size). Importance of these results for policy and practice is discussed.

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Johnson, Toni Cavanagh. "Young Children's Problematic Sexual Behaviors, Unsubstantiated Allegations of Child Sexual Abuse, and Family Boundaries in Child Custody Disputes." Journal of Child Custody 2, no. 4 (January 16, 2006): 111–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1300/j190v02n04_09.

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Bourque, Dawn M. "“Reconstructing” The Patriarchal Nuclear Family: Recent Developments in Child Custody and Access in Canada." Canadian journal of law and society 10, no. 1 (1995): 1–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s082932010000394x.

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Abstract — Examining recent (1990 to 1993) reported Canadian cases on custody and access, I document a movement toward a re-privatisation of “family” to a traditional patriarchal nuclear form. Patterns of privatisation, readily apparent in economic and social policy are also evident within family law. Custody and access determinations in a separation or post-separation setting represent a moment where these implicit tactics become visible; the result is serious limits placed on the freedom and safety of women and their children. Focus on issues of custodial mothers' mobility, wife abuse and allegations of child physical and/or sexual abuse reveals a propensity on the part of the judiciary to prioritise paternal access to children as a criterion of the “best interests of the child.” Like joint legal custody, which the Canadian courts are still reluctant to impose on unwilling parents, de facto joint custody is occurring under sole custody orders. These tendencies ensure the separated or divorced “family” will be “re-onstructed” and re-privatised along familiar patriarchal lines.

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Thompson-Cooper, Ingrid, Renée Fugère, and Bruno M. Cormier. "The Child Abuse Reporting Laws: An Ethical Dilemma for Professionals." Canadian Journal of Psychiatry 38, no. 8 (October 1993): 557–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/070674379303800806.

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A central issue in the development of family law and child protection in this country has been the right of the state to intervene in family life. The reporting laws, which were developed in the 1960s, made it mandatory for any citizen, including professionals, to report child abuse (physical and sexual) to the authorities. These laws have fundamentally altered the relationship between the clinician and families in need of help and have resulted in a dramatic increase in the number of cases assessed and treated by child welfare agencies. Because of the emphasis on case-finding, the limited resources have been stretched to the point where families with serious problems of child abuse do not get the services they require. Apparently, at least 60% of all reports turn out to be unfounded. Other criticisms of the current system include ineffective intervention, over-intervention and ignoring parents’ rights. The legalization and bureaucratization of the child protection process has profoundly affected the relationship between troubled families and social workers who now must “investigate” them as well as help them. This role conflict is exacerbated even further in cases of alleged child sexual abuse, where social workers are often expected to inform the police of the allegations. The authors argue that the reporting laws have been useful in that society is aware of the problem, and they suggest that it may be more beneficial now to dispose of them. A system such as the “confidential doctor” system currently operating in the Netherlands, whereby legal authorities are only notified if the abusive family does not cooperate with the helping professionals, prevents the negative consequences of the coercive and intrusive intervention in our system and provides an opportunity to work with those families on a voluntary basis whenever possible.

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Neoh, Jennifer, and David Mellor. "Professional Issues Related to Allegations and Assessment of Child Sexual Abuse in the Context of Family Court Litigation." Psychiatry, Psychology and Law 16, no. 2 (July 2009): 303–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13218710902852883.

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Ferguson, Claire, Sarah Wright, Jodi Death, Kylie Burgess, and John Malouff. "Allegations of child sexual abuse in parenting disputes: An examination of judicial determinations in the Family Court of Australia." Journal of Child Custody 15, no. 2 (January 5, 2018): 93–115. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15379418.2017.1415776.

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Elterman, Michael F., and Marion F. Ehrenberg. "Sexual abuse allegations in child custody disputes." International Journal of Law and Psychiatry 14, no. 3 (January 1991): 269–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0160-2527(91)90008-b.

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Hall, Kathryn. "Book Review: Assessing Allegations of Child Sexual Abuse." Journal of Psychiatry & Law 26, no. 4 (December 1998): 555–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/009318539802600408.

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Awad, George A. "The Assessment of Custody and Access Disputes in Cases of Sexual Abuse Allegations*." Canadian Journal of Psychiatry 32, no. 7 (October 1987): 539–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/070674378703200707.

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Sexual abuse allegations directed at one parent can arise in the context of custody and access disputes. The role of the clinician, when such allegations occur, is to provide an assessment of the total situation, taking the allegations into account. To assess the probability that sexual abuse has occurred involves a thorough assessment of the accuser, the accused, the accusation, the child, and different family subsystems. Particular attention should be paid to interviewing the young child with detailed focus on the interviewing process, how the interviews are reported and what conclusions may be drawn from them. Following a thorough assessment, the clinician may reach one of three conclusions: that the sexual abuse has probably occurred, has probably not occurred, or is unsure. A strong caution is given against becoming entangled in an endless process of trying to find out whether the allegations are true or false. Whatever conclusions are reached are but one factor in the recommendation regarding custody and/or access. Ultimately the recommendation will be made according to the best interests of the child, taking into account the child's relationships and attachments, as well as the sexual abuse allegations.

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Lyon, Thomas D. "False allegations and false denials in child sexual abuse." Psychology, Public Policy, and Law 1, no. 2 (June 1995): 429–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/1076-8971.1.2.429.

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Kilic, Serbulent, and Ayse Vural. "Delusional Disorder and False Allegations of Child Sexual Abuse: A Case Report." Arab Journal of Forensic Sciences and Forensic Medicine 3, no. 2 (December 30, 2021): 336–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.26735/boxu6438.

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Child sexual abuse is a public health problem worldwide. When a court carries out an investigation into cases of sexual abuse, they are likely to ask for a genital examination report from a forensic pathologist indicating whether they believe sexual abuse contact has occurred. Any suspicion about the sexual abuse of a child should be evaluated prudently. Nevertheless, the investigation of sexual abuse is sometimes undertaken according to misguided or unnecessary complaints from concerned parents suffering from mental illness.

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Kuehnle, Kathryn, and H. D. Kirkpatrick. "Evaluating Allegations of Child Sexual Abuse Within Complex Child Custody Cases." Journal of Child Custody 2, no. 3 (October 25, 2005): 3–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1300/j190v02n03_02.

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Anson, David A., Stephen L. Golding, and Kevin J. Gully. "Child sexual abuse allegations: Reliability of criteria-based content analysis." Law and Human Behavior 17, no. 3 (1993): 331–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf01044512.

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Murray, Honorable Justice. "“THE IMPOSSIBLE DREAM-FAMILY INTEGRITY, COURTS, WELFARE AND ALLEGATIONS OF CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE.”." Family Court Review 26, no. 2 (March 15, 2005): 1–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.174-1617.1988.tb01031.x.

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Plummer, Carol A., and Julie Eastin. "The Effect of Child Sexual Abuse Allegations/ Investigations on the Mother/Child Relationship." Violence Against Women 13, no. 10 (October 2007): 1053–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1077801207305931.

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O’Donohue, William T., Ann N. Elliott, Mona Nickerson, and Susan Valentine. "Perceived Credibility of Children’s Sexual Abuse Allegations: Effects of Gender and Sexual Attitudes." Violence and Victims 7, no. 2 (January 1992): 147–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1891/0886-6708.7.2.147.

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We investigated whether sex role stereotyping, adversarial sexual beliefs, acceptance of interpersonal violence, sex of the subject, characteristics of the child (age, sex), and characteristics of the alleged perpetrator (stranger, father) affect judgments of the credibility of children’s reports that they have been sexually abused. Two hundred and fifty-five college students in a 3 x 2 x 2 factorial arrangement were given the Burt (1980) scales and asked to read a short vignette in which a child alleged that he/she was sexually abused and the accused male denied the abuse. Although the vast majority of subjects indicated that they believed the child was telling the truth, females rated the child’s credibility significantly higher than males F(l, 253) = 6.29, p = .01226. No other significant relationships were found. The results imply that the vast majority of individuals in a college sample tended to believe children’s sexual abuse allegations and that this credibility assessment is not influenced by characteristics of the child or perpetrator examined in this study. Implications of the truncated range of the dependent variable and of the Burt scales are discussed.

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Bradford, Roger. "Developing an objective approach to assessing allegations of sexual abuse." Child Abuse Review 3, no. 2 (June 1994): 93–101. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/car.2380030206.

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Naughton, Michael. "Rethinking the Competing Discourses on Uncorroborated Allegations of Child Sexual Abuse." British Journal of Criminology 59, no. 2 (September 26, 2018): 461–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azy037.

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Bates, Frank. "Can We Accept the Acceptable?: Evidence and procedure in child sexual abuse cases in recent Australian law." Children Australia 17, no. 3 (1992): 13–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1035077200013286.

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In an earlier article (Bates, 1990), it was suggested that the test enunciated by the High Court of Australia in In the Marriage of M (1988) F.L.C. 91–979 for denying custody or access in cases where there had been allegations of child sexual abuse was inappropriate. In that case, it will be remembered, the High Court stated (at 77,081) that: To achieve a proper balance, the test is best expressed by saying that a court will not grant custody or access to a parent if that custody or access would expose the child to an unacceptable risk of sexual abuse.

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Gleeson, Kate. "Reckoning with Denial and Complicity: Child Sexual Abuse and the Case of Cardinal George Pell." International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy 9, no. 4 (November 26, 2020): 31–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/ijcjsd.1688.

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This article is concerned with public responses to allegations of child sexual abuse by representatives of powerful state-like entities such as the Catholic Church. It focuses on the responses of hegemonic groups and individuals to the recent trials and acquittal of the most senior Catholic figure ever to face child sexual abuse charges, Australian Cardinal George Pell, and his sworn testimony denying knowledge of sex crimes committed by a priest he associated with in the past. The article examines organised political campaigns denying the possibility of child sexual abuse in relation to a more generalised cultural denial permeating society about the entrenched nature of child abuse. As a means for coming to terms with the denial of atrocities, this article invokes philosophical debates about responsibility for mass crimes in the context of war tribunals, such as those formulated by Simone de Beauvoir and Hannah Arendt.

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Lavitt, Melissa, and Sara Alemán. "Child Sexual Abuse and the Mexican American Family:." Women & Criminal Justice 7, no. 1 (February 2, 1996): 81–102. http://dx.doi.org/10.1300/j012v07n01_05.

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Jones, David P. H. "Objective approaches to assessing allegations of sexual abuse: Commentary on Bradford." Child Abuse Review 3, no. 2 (June 1994): 101–4. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/car.2380030207.

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Perillo, Anthony D., Cynthia Calkins Mercado, and Karen J. Terry. "Repeat Offending, Victim Gender, and Extent of Victim Relationship in Catholic Church Sexual Abusers." Criminal Justice and Behavior 35, no. 5 (May 2008): 600–614. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0093854808314368.

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Despite wide reports of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church, empirical data on Catholic Church sexual abuse have not been readily available. The present study examines factors associated with sex-offender risk assessment along three criteria (repeat offending, victim gender, and victim relationship) on a sample of sexual abusers in the Catholic Church. Data from 4,392 priests with documented allegations of child sexual abuse were used. Logistic regression analysis resulted in significant predictive models for all comparisons. Factors consistently found to be significant predictors across comparisons included victim age, cleric age, all male victims, and history of victimization. Results suggest that risk predictors for Catholic Church sexual abusers are similar to those used in the general sex-offender population.

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Black, Fiona A., Robert D. Schweitzer, and Frank T. Varghese. "Allegations of Child Sexual Abuse in Family Court Cases: A Qualitative Analysis of Psychiatric Evidence." Psychiatry, Psychology and Law 19, no. 4 (August 2012): 482–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13218719.2011.613905.

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Goldfarb, Deborah, Sidnei Priolo-Filho, Janelle Sampana, Donna Shestowsky, Samara Wolpe, Lucia C. A. Williams, and Gail S. Goodman. "International Comparison of Family Court Professionals’ Perceptions of Parental Alienation and Child Sexual Abuse Allegations." International Journal on Child Maltreatment: Research, Policy and Practice 2, no. 4 (November 9, 2019): 323–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s42448-019-00033-6.

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Rakovec-Felser, Zlatka, and Lea Vidovič. "Maternal Perceptions Of And Responses To Child Sexual Abuse." Slovenian Journal of Public Health 55, no. 2 (June 1, 2016): 124–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/sjph-2016-0017.

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Abstract Background Several researches indicate that most child victims delay disclosing of sexual abuse for significant periods of time. There are numerous reasons as to why children are avoiding the disclosure of the abuse. The aim of this study was to determine how a mother’s response to a child’s allegations impacts the child’s willingness to disclose sexual abuse. Methods We conducted a retrospective quantitative and qualitative analysis of 73 court-referred cases of child sexual abuse which have been disclosed in Slovenia in the last ten years. All the child victims included in the study were female and the perpetrators adult male persons. The expert opinions were made by the same expert. Results We realized that, at the occurrence of abuse, the child victims were from 4 to 15 years old and their mean age was at 11. 5 years. About two-thirds of children were victims of the intra-familial type (61.6%) and a little more than one third of extra-familial type of sexual abuse (38.4%). The group of victims with the support of their mothers needed about 9 months to disclose the secret, while the delay of the disclosure in the cases without the support of mothers was much longer (M=6.9 years). Conclusion For female child victims of sexual abuse the perceived protective attitude of their mothers is very important. Especially when the sexual abuse happened in the family, the mother’s support can attribute to stop the ongoing abuse, eliminate its immediate effects and decrease its likely negative long-term outcome.

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St. George, Suzanne, Anastacia Garcia-Johnson, Emily Denne, and Stacia N. Stolzenberg. "“Did You Ever Fight Back?” Jurors’ Questions to Children Testifying in Criminal Trials About Alleged Sexual Abuse." Criminal Justice and Behavior 47, no. 8 (July 6, 2020): 1032–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0093854820935960.

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The current study examined jurors’ questions to children in criminal trials assessing children’s allegations of sexual abuse, demonstrating a new avenue for studying how jurors think about, respond to, and assess evidence. We used qualitative content analysis to examine jurors’ questions to 134, 5- to 17-year-olds alleging sexual abuse in criminal trial testimonies. Five themes emerged: abuse interactions, contextual details of abuse, children’s reactions to abuse, children’s (delayed) disclosure, and case background details. Jurors often ask about abuse dynamics, the context surrounding abuse, and children’s disclosure processes, reflecting common misconceptions about child sexual abuse (CSA), such as whether it is credible to delay disclosure or maintain contact with an alleged perpetrator. This study improves our understanding of how jurors understand and evaluate children’s reports of alleged CSA, suggesting that jurors may struggle to understand children’s reluctance.

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Death, Jodi. "Identity, Forgiveness and Power in the Management of Child Sexual Abuse by Personnel in Christian Institutions." International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy 2, no. 1 (April 30, 2013): 82–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/ijcjsd.v2i1.92.

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The ongoing crises of child sexual abuse by Christian institutions leaders across the Anglophone world continue to attract public attention and public inquiries. The pervasiveness of this issue lends credence to the argument that the prevailing ethos functioning within some Christian Institutions is one which exercises influence to repeatedly mismanage allegations of child sexual abuse by Church leaders. This work draws on semi-structured interviews conducted with 15 Personnel in Christian Institutions (PICIs) in Australia who were identified as being pro-active in their approach to addressing child sexual abuse by PICIs. From these data, themes of power and forgiveness are explored through a Foucaultian conceptualising of pastoral power and ‘truth’ construction. Forgiveness is viewed as a discourse which can have the power effect of either silencing or empowering victim/survivors. The study concludes that individual PICIs’ understandings of the role of power in their praxis influences outcomes from the deployment of forgiveness.

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Ross, Hamish. "Judicial Responses to Violations of the Emotional, Physical, Psychological and Sexual Integrity of the Child." International Journal of Children’s Rights 27, no. 2 (May 10, 2019): 373–409. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15718182-02702004.

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This article examines the use of limitation laws in the context of civil law claims under English law and Scots law brought by adult claimants in relation to allegations of historical abuse in childhood. Using case law as a barometer of judicial attitudes towards such claimants and, by extension, towards the child victims of abuse themselves, differences in judicial approach between the two jurisdictions are critically assessed, entailing some weighing and evaluation of the argumentative coherence and persuasive force of the judicial decision-making in question. Key aspects of the discussion are framed in terms of recurrent issues that have arisen in relevant case law. The overall aim is to inform a wider debate about the success or failure of civil law mechanisms of redress in rendering justice to those whose right to emotional, physical, psychological or sexual integrity has been violated in childhood.

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Skinner, Linda J., and Kenneth K. Berry. "Anatomically detailed dolls and the evaluation of child sexual abuse allegations: Psychometric considerations." Law and Human Behavior 17, no. 4 (1993): 399–421. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf01044375.

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Guerzoni, Michael Andre, and Hannah Graham. "Catholic Church Responses to Clergy-Child Sexual Abuse and Mandatory Reporting Exemptions in Victoria, Australia: A Discursive Critique." International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy 4, no. 4 (December 1, 2015): 58–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/ijcjsd.v4i4.205.

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This article presents empirical findings from a critical discourse analysis of institutional responses by the Catholic Church to clergy-child sexual abuse in Victoria, Australia. A sample of 28 documents, comprising 1,394 pages, is analysed in the context of the 2012-2013 Victorian Inquiry into the Handling of Child Abuse by Religious and Other Organisations. Sykes and Matza’s (1957) and Cohen’s (1993) techniques of, respectively, neutralisation and denial are used to reveal the Catholic Church’s Janus-faced responses to clergy-child sexual abuse and mandatory reporting requirements. Paradoxical tensions are observed between Catholic Canonical law and clerical practices, and the extent of compliance with secular law and referral of allegations to authorities. Concerns centre on Church secrecy, clerical defences of the confessional in justification of inaction, and the Melbourne Response compensation scheme. Our research findings underscore the need for greater Church transparency and accountability; we advocate for mandatory reporting law reform and institutional reform, including adjustments to the confessional ritual.

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Tadei, Alessandro, Pekka Santtila, and Jan Antfolk. "The Police Use of Background Information Related to Alleged Victims in Mock Evaluations of Child Sexual Abuse." Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology 35, no. 4 (January 22, 2019): 414–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11896-019-9312-6.

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Abstract When statistically related to child sexual abuse (CSA), background information can assist decision-making in investigations of CSA allegations. Here, we studied the use of such background information among Finnish police officers. We analyzed their ability to identify and interpret CSA-related and CSA-unrelated background information both when placed in mock scenarios and when presented as separate, individual variables. We also measured the ability to correctly estimate the probability of CSA based on such background information. In the context of mock scenarios, officers were better in discarding CSA-unrelated variables than in identifying CSA-related ones. Within-subject performance across different scenarios was, however, not consistent. When information was presented as separate variables, officers tended to incorrectly consider many CSA-unrelated variables as CSA-related. Officers performed better in recognizing whether actual CSA-related variables increase or decrease the probability of CSA. Finally, officers were inaccurate in identifying variables that are CSA-related only for boys or only for girls. When asked to estimate the CSA probability of mock scenarios, participants were accurate only in assessing low-probability cases, and this was not associated with the ability to identify CSA-related and CSA-unrelated variables. We conclude that police officers would benefit from more training in using background information and from using available decision-making support tools in the context of investigating CSA allegations.

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Dammeyer, Matthew D. "The assessment of child sexual abuse allegations: using research to guide clinical decision making." Behavioral Sciences & the Law 16, no. 1 (1998): 21–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/(sici)1099-0798(199824)16:1<21::aid-bsl291>3.0.co;2-k.

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Salter, Michael, and Selda Dagistanli. "Cultures of Abuse: ‘Sex Grooming’, Organised Abuse and Race in Rochdale, UK." International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy 4, no. 2 (July 1, 2015): 50–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/ijcjsd.v4i2.211.

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Revelations of organised abuse by men of Asian heritage in the United Kingdom have become a recurrent feature of international media coverage of sexual abuse in recent years. This paper reflects on the similarities between the highly publicised ‘sex grooming’ prosecutions in Rochdale in 2012 and the allegations of organised abuse in Rochdale that emerged in 1990, when twenty children were taken into care after describing sadistic abuse by their parents and others. While these two cases differ in important aspects, this paper highlights the prominence of colonial ideologies of civilisation and barbarism in the investigation and media coverage of the two cases and the sublimation of the issue of child welfare. There are important cultural and normative antecedents to sexual violence but these have been misrepresented in debates over organised abuse as racial issues and attributed to ethnic minority communities. In contrast, the colonialist trope promulgating the fictional figure of the rational European has resulted in the denial of the cultural and normative dimensions of organised abuse in ethnic majority communities by attributing sexual violence to aberrant and sexually deviant individuals whose behaviours transgress the boundaries of accepted cultural norms. This paper emphasises how the implicit or explicit focus on race has served to obscure the power dynamics underlying both cases and the continuity of vulnerability that places children at risk of sexual and organised abuse.

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Mercado, Cynthia Calkins, Jennifer A. Tallon, and Karen J. Terry. "Persistent Sexual Abusers in the Catholic Church." Criminal Justice and Behavior 35, no. 5 (May 2008): 629–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0093854808314389.

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This study aims to enhance understanding of clergy offending patterns through a comparison of low-rate and high-rate clergy offenders. Data for these re-analyses are derived from 3,674 cases from the Nature and Scope of Child Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church. This article compares those clerics who had just one allegation with those who had a moderate (2 to 3), high (4 to 9), or exceptionally high (10-plus) number of allegations of sexual abuse. Findings reveal that the 3.7% ( n =137) who had 10 or more victims accounted for a disproportionate 24.8% of the abuse. Priests with the most victims began perpetrating offenses at an earlier age and were more likely to have male victims than those who abused fewer victims. The importance of research addressing the causes and situational correlates of sexual offending by priests, as well as the need for more refined management strategies, are discussed.

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Brooks, Catherine M., and Madelyn Simring Milchman. "Child sexual abuse allegations during custody litigation: Conflicts between mental health expert witnesses and the law." Behavioral Sciences & the Law 9, no. 1 (1991): 21–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/bsl.2370090104.

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Hyams, Andrew L. "Expert Psychiatric Evidence in Sexual Misconduct Cases Before State Medical Boards." American Journal of Law & Medicine 18, no. 3 (1992): 171–201. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0098858800007085.

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The growing problem of physician sexual misconduct has captured the attention not only of the medical and legal communities, but of the public as well. State medical boards, administrative agencies with generous rules of evidence and varying levels of expertise, face the difficult task of responding to patients’ allegations of physician sexual abuse. This Article, based in large part on the author's survey of current state medical board practice, reveals an increasing reliance on expert psychiatric testimony to explain the behavior of complainants and accused physicians. Drawing analogies from the use of psychiatric evidence in child sexual abuse cases, the author examines the factors that boards must consider in determining the admissibility of expert testimony in physician sexual misconduct cases, and calls upon states to establish clear evidentiary rules to govern the use of such testimony in administrative hearings.

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Salter, Michael. "Child Sexual Abuse and Exploitation: Guest Editor’s Introduction." International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy 4, no. 2 (July 1, 2015): 1–3. http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/ijcjsd.v4i2.240.

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One of the most unnerving aspects of child sexual abuse is that it is constantly manifesting in unexpected ways. The current Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse has collected testimony of abuse in churches, schools, out-of-home care, hospitals and religious communities, demonstrating the breadth of institutional arrangements whose structures and cultures have facilitated child sexual abuse. Cases of serious and prolonged sexual abuse in family contexts have been excluded from the terms of reference of the Royal Commission but nonetheless continue to surface in media reports. In 2013, twelve children were permanently removed from an extended family living in rural NSW in what has been described as one of the worst cases of child abuse in Australia, involving intergenerational incest going back at least three generations (Auebach 2014). Another recent high-profile case involved the use of the Internet to facilitate the sexual exploitation of an adopted child by his parents in Queensland (Ralston 2013). These cases challenge the received wisdom that child sexual abuse is characterised by the victimisation of one child by one opportunistic offender. Such incidents suggest instead that child sexual abuse takes varied and systemic forms, and can operate to perpetuate and entrench toxic cultures and power structures. This special issue on Child Sexual Abuse and Exploitation is a timely contribution to ongoing efforts to understand the multiplicity of child sexual abuse. It is an interdisciplinary collection of insights drawn from criminology, sociology, psychiatry, psychology and psychoanalysis, and includes papers from academic researchers alongside academic practitioners whose writing is grounded in their work with affected individuals and communities. A key aim of the special issue is to contextualise the diversity of child sexual abuse socially, politically and historically, recognising the dynamic and iterative relationships between sexual abuse and the contexts in which it takes place. The contributions to this special issue examine how the diversity and dynamics of abuse unfold at the individual, community and social level, and across time. The issue is focused on emerging or under-recognised forms of child sexual abuse, such as organised abuse and sexual exploitation, which illustrate recent shifts in the knowledge base and require new and innovative criminological thinking.Download the PDF file from this page to find out more about this special edition.

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Tallon, Jennifer A., and Karen J. Terry. "Analyzing Paraphilic Activity, Specialization, and Generalization in Priests Who Sexually Abused Minors." Criminal Justice and Behavior 35, no. 5 (May 2008): 615–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0093854808314374.

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It is a common belief that priests who sexually abused minors specialized in victim type, particularly in regard to age and gender. The Nature and Scope study showed that 81% of the victims of sexual abuse by priests were male, and more than half the sample was aged 11 to 14 years. However, a closer analysis of victim type shows that only 693 of the 4,392 priests with sexual abuse allegations “specialized,” or abused multiple victims of the same gender and age. Few studies compare child sexual abusers who are versatile in their victim choice and those who sexually abuse a particular type of victim. Findings here indicate that priests who were versatile in their choice of victim differed from specialists in that they had more victims over a longer period of time, more grooming behavior, and an earlier onset of abusive behavior. There are also differences among various specialist groups in regard to age of onset and duration of abusive behavior.

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Reamer, Frederic G. "A Narrative on The Witch-Hunt Narrative." Journal of Interpersonal Violence 32, no. 6 (March 2017): 875–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0886260516657349.

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Ross Cheit’s The Witch-Hunt Narrative raises a number of complex moral issues. Cheit’s principal purpose is to challenge the belief that our society has overreacted to claims about the sexual abuse of children. Both directly and indirectly, Cheit’s in-depth analysis broaches moral concerns pertaining to the integrity of child abuse allegations, investigations, civil litigation, and criminal prosecution, with an emphasis on the mixed motives of the parties involved in key cases. This article provides an overview of ethical questions pertaining to gathering information from very vulnerable individuals, informed consent, institutional review, protection of research participants, the use of deception and coercion, confidentiality and privacy, reporting research results, and conflicts of interest. In addition, the author discusses the phenomenon of whistle-blowing as it pertains to professionals’ ethical judgments about disclosure of wrongdoing and misconduct. The author outlines key ethics-related concepts, applies relevant moral theory, and explores the implications of the moral issues raised by The Witch-Hunt Narrative for child sexual abuse victims, perpetrators, child welfare and law enforcement professionals, scholars and researchers, and the public at large.

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Udayakumara, A. R. P. C., and H. K. S. Niranjana. "A Criminological Study on Family Environmental Factors Affecting Child Sexual Abuse in Sri Lanka." Vidyodaya Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences 07, no. 02 (July 1, 2022): 107–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.31357/fhss/vjhss.v07i02.08.

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Child sexual abuse is a serious crime prohibited by Sri Lankan criminal law, which is discussed under child abuse. There are various factors that contribute to the sexual abuse of children. This research has conducted a criminological study of the family environmental factors affecting child sexual abuse in Sri Lanka. The research was conducted in the Kalutara and Colombo districts of the Western Province and 228 sexually abused children were used as the main sample in 2015-2020. Two separate samples were also used for officers on duty with regard to parents and children from the victims. The data obtained from the research have been extensively analyzed quantitatively and qualitatively. 87% of victims of sexual abuse are girls. The majority of 42% represent the 15-17 category. 47% of the majority are victims of corruption. The boyfriend (42%) is responsible for most of the abuse. 33% of victims have been sexually abused in their own home and 32% in the home of the abuser. Family vulnerabilities such as family economic difficulties, parental ignorance, extramarital affairs, single parent family, parental separation, family disputes, parental emigration, paternal and drug abuse, various physical and mental disorders of the parents, family moral decline, and breakdown of parent-child cooperation And various problems of children, problems in the social environment can be identified as factors contributing to sexual abuse. A child faces many problems when he or she is sexually abused. This physical, mental and social impact is detrimental not only to the child affected but also to his family, society and the country as a whole. It can be pointed out that an integrated approach is more effective in controlling and preventing child sexual abuse.

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Herrera, Veronica M., and Laura Ann McCloskey. "Sexual Abuse, Family Violence, and Female Delinquency: Findings From a Longitudinal Study." Violence and Victims 18, no. 3 (June 2003): 319–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1891/vivi.2003.18.3.319.

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The current study examines the effects of three forms of childhood victimization on self-reported delinquency and aggression in adolescent girls. These analyses are based on a longitudinal sample of 141 mother-daughter pairs participating in a study about marital violence and child development. When the children were school aged, mothers and children provided reports describing (a) child exposure to marital violence, (b) escalated physical abuse against the child, and (c) child sexual abuse. Children were followed up into adolescence and re-interviewed. Self-reports of delinquency (violent and nonviolent), running away, and violence against parents were collected. Results indicate that out of the three forms of victimization, child sexual abuse emerged as the strongest predictor of girls’ violent and nonviolent criminal behavior. Girls with a history of physical abuse in childhood were most likely to assault their parents. Witnessing marital violence failed to contribute further to delinquency, beyond the adverse association with childhood sexual abuse. Findings highlight a unique avenue for delinquency in girls via childhood sexual exploitation.

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Martin, Sandra L., Deborah A. Gibbs, Ruby E. Johnson, E. Danielle Rentz, Monique Clinton-Sherrod, Jennifer L. Hardison Walters, and Kristen Sullivan. "Male Soldier Family Violence Offenders: Spouse and Child Offenders Compared to Child Offenders." Violence and Victims 24, no. 4 (August 2009): 458–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1891/0886-6708.24.4.458.

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Army data from 2000 to 2004 were used to compare two groups of married, male, Army soldier, first-time family violence offenders: 760 dual offenders (whose initial incident included both child maltreatment and spouse abuse) and 2,209 single offenders (whose initial incident included only child maltreatment). The majority (81%) of dual offenders perpetrated physical spouse abuse; however, dual offenders were less likely than single offenders to perpetrate physical child abuse (16% vs. 42%) or sexual child abuse (1% vs. 11%), but they were more likely to perpetrate emotional child abuse (45% vs. 12%). These findings may be, at least in part, explained in light of the Army Family Advocacy Program policy, which considers spouse offenders as also being emotional child abuse offenders since children may be traumatized by exposure to spouse abuse.

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Death, Jodi, Claire Ferguson, and Kylie Burgess. "Parental alienation, coaching and the best interests of the child: Allegations of child sexual abuse in the Family Court of Australia." Child Abuse & Neglect 94 (August 2019): 104045. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2019.104045.

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Allard-Dansereau, Claire, Martine Hébert, Caroline Tremblay, and Anne-Claude Bernard-Bonnin. "Children's response to the medical visit for allegations of sexual abuse: maternal perceptions and predicting variables." Child Abuse Review 10, no. 3 (May 2001): 210–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/car.688.

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Webb, Nola, Lawrence J. Moloney, Bruce M. Smyth, and Robyn L. Murphy. "Allegations of child sexual abuse: An empirical analysis of published judgements from the Family Court of Australia 2012–2019." Australian Journal of Social Issues 56, no. 3 (July 14, 2021): 322–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ajs4.171.

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Ray, Kelle Chandler, Joan L. Jackson, and Ruth M. Townsley. "Family environments of victims of intrafamilial and extrafamilial child sexual abuse." Journal of Family Violence 6, no. 4 (December 1991): 365–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf00980539.

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Bozko-Cace, Margarita. "PUNISHMENT PRACTICES IN CASES OF CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE." Administrative and Criminal Justice 3, no. 88 (December 30, 2019): 64. http://dx.doi.org/10.17770/acj.v3i88.4413.

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Sexual violence against a child is a global, complicated social and legal problem, existing in all the countries of the world. Sexual violence towards children is a serious violation of the child’s fundamental rights and still one of the main issues in Latvia, which in most cases takes place within families. In Latvia, despite the measures taken by the state and severity of criminal punishments, the number of sex crimes against children has increased since 2016. The aim of the study is to research the practices of criminal punishments for sexual violence against children, reveal and analyse the problems.In the paper, the author reveals topical issues and offers solutions. There should be a uniform case law on application of aggravating circumstances for the offences against morality and sexual integrity of children committed by a person who is the first and second degree relative to the child. If the victim materially depends on the perpetrator, as well as it should be provided as an aggravating circumstance if the offence is committed by a family member or a person staying with the child, but who is not the first and second degree relative. It is necessary to prosecute family members of the perpetrator if they were aware of sexual violence against the child, for not reporting about sexual violence against the child. Prevention of sexual violence against children should include a range of additional measures and close cooperation among public authorities. There is a necessity to establish a public register of persons convicted of sexual violence against children in Latvia, it is necessary to carry out administrative supervision of these persons after serving the additional sentence, as well as chemical castration of the persons half a year before the end of their imprisonment would be useful to prevent risk of recidivism.

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Keane, Michael, Andrea Guest, and Jo Padbury. "A Balancing Act: A Family Perspective to Sibling Sexual Abuse." Child Abuse Review 22, no. 4 (June 26, 2013): 246–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/car.2284.

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