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PLOS Global Public HealthChild sexual abuse is a significant public health concern and a breach of basic human rights affecting millions of children each year globally. It is typically not reported by victims, hence it remains usually concealed.
Birye Dessalegn Mekonnen +1 more
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Maternal Abusers: Underlying concerns for children [PDF]
, 2010 Child sexual abuse is an emotive topic, which raises public fears and political concerns. Commonly the perpetrators of such abuse are male and their victims female, but evidence suggests that there are a significant number of female perpetrators as well.
Turton, J
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article reflects on the construction of a supportive community of Black Afro‐diasporic graduate students and their supervisors researching issues relating to race in the field of education in Australia. It draws on the concept of marronage—a term rooted in the fugitive act of becoming a maroon, where enslaved people enacted an escape in ...
Hellen Magoi +6 more
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Does Child Abuse Cause Crime? [PDF]
, 2005 Child maltreatment, which includes both child abuse and child neglect, is a major social problem. This paper focuses on measuring the effects of child maltreatment on crime using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health).
Erdal Tekin, Janet Currie
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper presents a critical examination of Australia's 2021 household, individual and interviewer census forms. Using a form‐led analysis, this research scrutinises the underlying cisheteronormative logic that implicitly shapes the Census process, from data collection to distribution of findings.
Xavier Mills, Sal Clark
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SAGE Open, 2013 This study investigated secondary school pupils’ views on strategies that can be used to prevent child sexual abuse (CSA). A survey design was adopted as the operational framework for data gathering.
Pesanayi Gwirayi
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CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE AS A PRECURSOR TO PROSTITUTION
Social Work/Maatskaplike Werk, 2003 The child as a victim of sexual abuse has recently received deliberated attention within the South African context. In the study undertaken, the immediate as well as long term effects of such abuse was investigated with the pertinent intent of ...
Jacqueline Saffy
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The long run impact of child abuse on health care costs and wellbeing in Australia. CHERE Working Paper 2010/10 [PDF]
There are approximately 55,000 substantiated child abuse or neglect cases in Australia each year, according to Australian Institute of Health and Welfare data, 2005-06 to 2008-09 (AIHW2010).
Kees van Gool, Rebecca Reeve
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Child and Family Factors Associated With Child Maltreatment in Vietnam [PDF]
, 2018 This study aims to explore possible risk factors for child maltreatment in Vietnam by investigating the association of child and family factors with different types of child maltreatment (i.e., sexual abuse, physical abuse, emotional abuse, witnessing ...
Alink, L.R.A. (Lenneke R.A.) +3 more
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The Cost of the National Disability Insurance Scheme: Australia's Print‐Media Discourse
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines the way that Australian newspapers have framed the cost of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). Introduced in 2013, the NDIS represented a major change in Australia's disability support policy, moving for the first time to a nationwide universal insurance model.
Meera Chinnappa +2 more
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