Home Truths about Child Sexual Abuse: A ReaderCatherine Itzin Home Truths About Child Sexual Abuse brings together the findings of research and clinical work by leading figures in the UK and USA. It makes visible the prevalence of sexual abuse and exploitation of children by normal, ordinary, heterosexual family men, both within and outside the family. Comprehensive and multidisciplinary in approach, it covers the many different aspects of child sexual abuse including: *phenomenology *definitions and terminology *epidemiology *explanatory frameworks *concepts and theory *the contribution of radical feminism *constructs, classifications and typologies *policy *treatments *multi-disciplinary and multi-agency work *medical advice *gender issues *criminal justice. The book provides the evidence and knowledge base necessary to begin to achieve effective prevention. It offers professionals, researchers and policy makers an invaluable source of reference and an informed basis for action |
Contents
Child sexual abuse and the radical feminist endeavour an overview | 1 |
Child sexual abuse and exploitation | 25 |
What happened when women said incest | 27 |
Paedophile characteristics and patterns of behaviour developing and using a typology | 49 |
Sexual exploitation a new discovery or one part of the continuum of sexual abuse in childhood? | 70 |
Incest paedophilia pornography and prostitution conceptualising the connections | 87 |
The victim experience of child sexual abuse and its effects | 101 |
Paternal incest an autobiographical account | 103 |
Risk factors for development of sexually abusive behaviour in sexually victimized adolescent boys cross sectional study | 222 |
Interventions | 233 |
Child sexual abuse and the continuum of victim disclosure professionals working with children in Cleveland in 1987 | 235 |
Helping girls involved in prostitution a Barnardos experiment | 277 |
Treating adolescents who sexually abuse others | 290 |
Patterns of sex offending and strategies for effective assessment and intervention | 313 |
The uses of therapy understanding and treating the effects of childhood abuse and neglect | 335 |
Child protection policy | 351 |
The experience and the effects of child sexual abuse involving pornography | 123 |
Once I was a child and there was much pain a glimpse into the soul of an incest survivor | 141 |
The newly recognised shattering effects of child abuse | 163 |
The nature and extent of child sexual abuse | 167 |
Child sexual abuse prevalence a review and reanalysis of relevant studies | 169 |
Contributing and causal factors | 197 |
Sadistic sexual and violent acts in the young contributing and causal factors | 199 |
Gender and the child protection process | 353 |
The medical diagnosis of child sexual abuse in Cleveland in 1987 the paediatricians dilemma | 372 |
Confronting sexual abuse challenges for the future | 387 |
Conclusion | 403 |
Child protection and child sexual abuse prevention influencing policy and practice | 405 |
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