A crisis worker's observations on the psychosocial support for victims and families following child sexual abuse; a case study

2014 ◽  
Vol 27 ◽  
pp. 25-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel R. Gibney ◽  
Alyson Jones
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Child Sexual Abuse ◽  
Psychosocial Support

Using a Multisectoral Approach in Tackling Child Sexual Abuse: Lessons from a Zimbabwean Case Study

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Noel Muridzo ◽  
Victor Chikadzi
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Child Sexual Abuse ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Child Survivors ◽  
Integrated Service Delivery ◽  
Improved Outcomes ◽  
Form Part ◽  
Role Players ◽  
Areas Of Concern

Child sexual abuse is one of the prevalent social ills that affect children in Zimbabwe. In response to the problem of child sexual abuse and the need to mitigate its adverse effects, Zimbabwe established the Victim Friendly System. The Victim Friendly System is a multisectoral forum made up of social workers, medical doctors, nurses, the police force and role players within the justice system such as magistrates, prosecutors, counsellors, educationists and psychologists. These professionals offer distinctive but complementary interventions to child survivors of child sexual abuse. This paper discusses the merits and lessons gleaned from using the Victim Friendly System as a multisectoral forum to tackle child sexual abuse. In researching this phenomenon, the study adopted a qualitative approach and data were collected from 38 participants and 4 key informants selected using theoretical and purposive sampling respectively. A total of 300 court files of child sexual abuse cases were also reviewed. The findings that emerged from the study show that a multisectoral approach to dealing with child sexual abuse provides the benefit of integrated service delivery. Improved outcomes for victims of sexual abuse as well as streamlined, effective and efficient operations for organisations that form part of the Victim Friendly System were also evident. This notwithstanding, the paper also discusses some areas of concern that could potentially affect how the Victim Friendly System multisectoral arrangement works. The lessons that emerged from the study provide some insights that are useful in informing guidelines for multisectoral arrangements.

How Do Jewish Communities Respond to Manifestations of Institutional Child Sexual Abuse? A Case Study of Malka Leifer and Adass Israel in Melbourne, Australia

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (8) ◽  
pp. 927-944 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip Mendes ◽  
Marcia Pinskier ◽  
Samone McCurdy
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Child Sexual Abuse ◽  
Jewish Communities

Diffusing responsibility: A case study of child sexual abuse in popular discourse

2014 ◽  
Vol 37 ◽  
pp. 55-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan L. Miller ◽  
M. Kristen Hefner ◽  
Chrysanthi S. Leon
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Child Sexual Abuse ◽  
Popular Discourse

Length of Time to Resolve Criminal Charges of Child Sexual Abuse: A Three-County Case Study

2015 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 528-545 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wendy A. Walsh ◽  
Tonya Lippert ◽  
Meredyth Goldberg Edelson ◽  
Lisa M. Jones
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Child Sexual Abuse ◽  
Criminal Charges

scholarly journals Legal Irresponsibility and Institutional Responses to Child Sex Abuse

2018 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Penny Crofts
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Child Sexual Abuse ◽  
Catholic Education ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Royal Commission ◽  
Sex Abuse ◽  
Institutional Responses ◽  
Child Sex Abuse

The current Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse has demonstrated serious long-term failures to prevent and adequately respond to child sexual abuse by institutions. Rather than regarding the law as a system of responsibility, this article argues that it can be read instead as organising irresponsibility, drawing upon Scott Veitch’s ideas in Law and Irresponsibility. His key argument is that legal institutions operate as much to deflect responsibility for harms suffered as to acknowledge them. This article focuses on the ways in which the criminal justice system is complicit in organising irresponsibility for systemic failures through an analysis of the Royal Commission Case Study No 6: The responses of a primary school and the Toowoomba Catholic Education Office to the Conduct of Gerald Byrnes. Through concrete examples, this article analyses the ways in which criminal law organises irresponsibility through the individuation of responsibility and the emphasis upon subjective culpability. These practices ensure irresponsibility for actors for systemic failures.

Experiences with ritualist child sexual abuse: A case study from The Netherlands

1991 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 191-196 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. Jonker ◽  
P. Jonker-Bakker
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Child Sexual Abuse ◽  
The Netherlands
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