Overview
- Provides new multidisciplinary understandings of the problem of child sexual abuse
- Gives an up to date coverage of key issues facing a range of societies and multiple groups of stakeholders
- Proposes innovative proposals for prevention, detection and response based on evidence and theory
Part of the book series: Child Maltreatment (MALT, volume 7)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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The Context
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Theory: Multidisciplinary Understandings of Child Sexual Abuse and Regulatory Responses
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Problems and Progress: Contemporary Challenges and Responses
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Conclusion: Future Directions
Keywords
- Prevention, detection and response
- Public health law, policy and practice
- Global issues and challenges
- Innovation and social change
- Multidisciplinary understandings of child sexual abuse
- Contemporary challenges and international aspects
- Promising strategies and creative solutions
- maternal and child health
About this book
This book offers a timely and detailed exploration and analysis of key contemporary issues and challenges in child sexual abuse, which holds great relevance for scholarly, legal, policy, professional and clinical audiences worldwide. The book draws together the best current evidence about the nature, aetiology, contexts, and sequelae of child sexual abuse. It explores the optimal definition of child sexual abuse, considers sexual abuse in history, and explores new theoretical understandings of children’s rights and other key theories including public health and the Capabilities Approach, and their relevance to child sexual abuse prevention and responses. It examines a selection of the most pressing legal, theoretical, policy and practical challenges in child sexual abuse in the modern world, in developed and developing economies, including institutional child sexual abuse, female genital cutting, child marriage, the use of technology for sexual abuse, and the ethical responsibility and legal liability of major state and religious organisations, and individuals. It examines recent landmark legal and policy developments in all of these areas, drawing in particular on extensive developments from Australia in the wake of its Royal Commission Into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. It also considers the best evidence about promising strategies and future promising directions in enhancing effective prevention, intervention and responses to child sexual abuse.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: New International Frontiers in Child Sexual Abuse
Book Subtitle: Theory, Problems and Progress
Authors: Ben Mathews
Series Title: Child Maltreatment
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99043-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-99042-2Published: 18 October 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-07560-6Published: 26 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-99043-9Published: 03 October 2018
Series ISSN: 2211-9701
Series E-ISSN: 2211-971X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 307
Topics: Child Well-being, International Criminal Law , Maternal and Child Health, Educational Policy and Politics