A Comparative Study on Child Abuse and the Absence of Legal Protections for Male Child Sex Abuse Victims in Major South East Asian countries

The focal point of this paper is in highlighting the grim picture in dominant Asian countries China, India, and Pakistan where no practical application of the law is found to protect against the sexual abuse of children, particularly underage boys. An analysis regarding the conditions of sexual abuse in the aforementioned countries is carried out using the scarce reports issued by national governments, which will be supplemented with information from prominent NGOs and media reports. Thereafter, certain gaps in the justice system and law enforcement are identified. Simultaneously, the Western perspective is studied to ascertain how this issue is being addressed in Western societies and to what extent this heinous crime has impacted the lives of individuals. Finally, there is deliberation as to what the East could learn from Western practices for curbing the often-hidden menace of male child sex abuse. Keywords: Child abuse, Child sex abuse, Comparative study, Eastern practice, Gaps in justice system, Law enforcement, Male child abuse, Media reports

Athletics and Admissions: The Impact of the Penn State Football Scandal on Student Quality

We ask whether a scandal in a university’s athletics department affects the quality of the incoming student body. To do so, we evaluate the child sex abuse scandal at Penn State University in 2011. The violations involved a former employee with the crimes occurring a decade prior. The plausibly-exogenous shock allows us to make a causal identification of the scandal's effect on the university. We use synthetic control methods establishing economically meaningful impacts. We find that the average high school GPA is 0.12 points less and the proportion of students with high SAT Math scores is down 4.8 percentage points.

Tinjauan Yuridis Penerapan Tindakan Keberi Kimia Terhadap Pelaku Persetubuhan Pada Anak Di Kejaksaan Negeri Kabupaten Bogor (Studi Kasus Perkara Atas Nama Hendra Iskandar dengan Nomor Berkas Perkara: B/60/X/2018/Reskrim)

Indonesia has ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child which means that Indonesia is bound by international law to implement provisions in the CRC to adopt legislative, administrative and programmatic measures to ensure children's rights are realized with the issuance of Government Regulation in Lieu of Law Number 1 Year 2016 which was passed into law as the second revision to Child Protection Law Number 23 of 2002 on Child Protection. The ratification of Government Regulation in Lieu of Law Number 1 Year 2016 is a form of crunch against the high cases of child sex abuse because the criminal sanctions imposed on perpetrators of child sexual abuse have not had a deterrent effect and have not been able to comprehensively prevent the occurrence of sexual violence against children, so it is necessary to immediately amend Law Number 23 of 2002 on Child Protection. Government Regulation in Lieu of Law Number 1 Year 2016 imposes sanctions for perpetrators of sexual crimes that add to the basic penalty of death and life imprisonment and additional criminal acts of chemical castration, the addition of provisions on the act of chemical castration is a form of legal reform because punishing violators with the death penalty is no longer constitutional and those who are released often return and end up in prison, therefore it is necessary to find other rule of law and humane methods to treat these offenders.

PERAN ORANG TUA DALAM MEMBERIKAN PENDIDIKAN SEKS PADA ANAK USIA 6-13 TAHUN DI DESA SUNGAI KUYUNG KECAMATAN PANCUNG SOAL

The purpose of this study is to illustrate the efforts made by parents in providing sex education to children aged 6-13 years. To explain what form of child questions about sex and to explain the obstacles faced by parents in providing sex education to children aged 6-13 years in Sungai Kuyung Kecamatan Pancung Soal Sub-District. This research is field research with descriptive qualitative methods. In the determination of the sample the author uses snowball sampling. The results of the research that has been conducted in Sungai Kuyung River Village are parents trying to provide sex education to the child and answer the child's questions about sex. Here parents play a role in teaching child sex abuse by applying when entering the parent's room by asking permission before entering, teaching how to look at the situation seen by the child. Then parents also avoid the child from free sex by separating the bed between the parent and brother or sister. Parents also explain about sex to their child as much as they can.

Identifying and Charging True Perpetrators in Cases of Wrongful Convictions

True perpetrators—those who commit crimes that others were wrongfully convicted of—are a danger to society. Left unapprehended, these individuals often continue to commit crimes that could have otherwise been avoided. Despite the risk they pose, only about half of true perpetrators in DNA exoneration cases have been identified. Further, only 50% of those who have been identified have been charged with the wrongful conviction crime(s) they committed. Previous research on wrongful convictions, prosecutorial discretion in charging decisions, and prosecutors’ treatment of post-conviction innocence claims provide a starting point for investigating what factors underlie the identification and charging of true perpetrators. To explore these factors, we analyze 367 DNA exoneration cases and the resulting 161 identified true perpetrators. Results revealed that prosecutorial misconduct as a contributor to the wrongful conviction decreased the odds that a true perpetrator would be identified, but the odds increased if the victim was White and the exoneree was Black compared to if both were White. Odds of identification also decreased when, compared to murder, the most severe wrongful conviction crime type was child sex abuse or sexual assault. These factors were not significantly associated with the odds of an identified true perpetrator being charged with a wrongful conviction crime. A qualitative study revealed both definitively prohibitive and potentially influential factors that could influence a prosecutor’s decision not to charge an identified true perpetrator with these crimes. These findings indicate policy solutions that could hold true perpetrators of wrongful convictions crimes responsible for their actions.

The sacred versus the secular in UK psychiatry

SUMMARYI comment on two papers by Koenig and colleagues that advocate the integration of religion into routine psychiatric practice. In my opinion, their selective overview of research, although useful, lacks balance. It omits any mention of the literature on worldwide scandals over child sex abuse (and other abuses of power) perpetrated and facilitated by religious authority within several faith groups. There is no mention of damaging ‘religiously informed’ treatments such as sexual orientation conversion therapy, which is still practised in the UK despite widespread condemnation. Their recommendations for clinical practice conflate association with causation. They do not offer practice guidance on managing the impact of power imbalances associated with religion in multicultural societies. In summary, despite more than a decade of research and debate, there are still no generally accepted ways of avoiding boundary violations where psychiatrists introduce religion into their clinical practice.