scholarly journals Trends in child sexual abuse research in Latin America and the Caribbean

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (5) ◽  
pp. em148
Author(s):  
Maribel Vega-Arce ◽  
Gastón Núñez-Ulloa ◽  
Ignacia Sepúlveda-Ramírez ◽  
Gonzalo Salas ◽  
Ivelisse Torres Fernandez ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Child Sexual Abuse ◽  
The Caribbean

Child Sexual Abuse and the Complexities of Gender, Power, and Sexuality

2020 ◽  
pp. 088626052090919
Author(s):  
Rhoda Reddock ◽  
Sandra D. Reid ◽  
Tisha Nickenig
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Action Research ◽  
Child Sexual Abuse ◽  
Trinidad And Tobago ◽  
Research Methodology ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Sociocultural Factors ◽  
Community Based Interventions ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
The Caribbean

This article contributes to the still limited analysis of gender and sexuality in the exploration of HIV infection in the Caribbean. In Trinidad and Tobago, child sexual abuse was identified as a prevalent behavior. This motivated a gendered exploration of the sociocultural factors underlying child sexual abuse and the link with HIV. Using a qualitative action research methodology, researchers sought to understand the patterns of behavior, sociocultural and gendered meanings, and significance of child sexual abuse; to sensitize stakeholders to these issues; and to develop multidisciplinary community-based interventions and policies. This article reports on the analysis of data collected from the interventions carried out as part of the action research methodology, as well as a range of national and community-specific action research activities including ethnographic case studies, national stakeholders meetings, and a study of service providers. It provides a nuanced understanding of the meanings, underlying assumptions, perceptions, and taboos associated with child sexual abuse in Trinidad and Tobago, as well as new ways of understanding child sexual abuse in the Caribbean. Findings showed that the social and gender context for child sexual abuse involves several interconnecting factors located within a framework of gender ideologies and expressions, sexual expectations and behaviors, and social norms based on patriarchal values. These findings would be of significance for the prevention of child sexual abuse and the associated HIV risk in Trinidad and Tobago, and the management of victims and perpetrators of child sexual abuse.

scholarly journals Competing meanings of childhood and the social construction of child sexual abuse in the Caribbean

Childhood ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 200-214 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dominic Pasura ◽  
Adele D Jones ◽  
James AH Hafner ◽  
Priya E Maharaj ◽  
Karene Nathaniel-DeCaires ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Child Sexual Abuse ◽  
Social Construction ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Caribbean

scholarly journals Enough! Child Sexual Abuse in the Caribbean

2021 ◽  
Vol 67 (4) ◽  
pp. 389-391
Author(s):  
Camille Alexander
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Child Sexual Abuse ◽  
The Caribbean

Malpractice & Negligence: State Supreme Courts Limit Therapists’ Duties to Third Parties

1999 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 204-205
Author(s):  
Megan Cleary
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Child Sexual Abuse ◽  
Supreme Court ◽  
New Hampshire ◽  
Third Parties ◽  
State Supreme Courts ◽  
Recovered Memories ◽  
Supreme Courts ◽  
Repressed Memory ◽  
University Of Colorado

In recent years, the law in the area of recovered memories in child sexual abuse cases has developed rapidly. See J.K. Murray, “Repression, Memory & Suggestibility: A Call for Limitations on the Admissibility of Repressed Memory Testimony in Abuse Trials,” University of Colorado Law Review, 66 (1995): 477-522, at 479. Three cases have defined the scope of liability to third parties. The cases, decided within six months of each other, all involved lawsuits by third parties against therapists, based on treatment in which the patients recovered memories of sexual abuse. The New Hampshire Supreme Court, in Hungerford v. Jones, 722 A.2d 478 (N.H. 1998), allowed such a claim to survive, while the supreme courts in Iowa, in J.A.H. v. Wadle & Associates, 589 N.W.2d 256 (Iowa 1999), and California, in Eear v. Sills, 82 Cal. Rptr. 281 (1991), rejected lawsuits brought by nonpatients for professional liability.

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