Nominated for the 2012 Distinguished Publication Award of the Association for Women in
Psychology! Why are women more likely to be positioned or diagnosed as mad than men? If …

Child sexual abuse, and particularly the abuse of boys, is now the focus of significant
research and attention—especially in light of various inquiries, as many victim-survivors …

The prosecution of charges of historical child sexual abuse routinely raises a range of
complex legal and evidentiary issues in criminal law. There is often legal argument about …

Abstract The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse in
Australia commissioned this literature review to discern the potential benefits of using …

Research on child sexual abuse has underacknowledged the multifaced, tacit and
embodied dimensions, leaving the literature without a full picture of events that are often …

Each year, approximately 1 million children are found to have been abused, with an average
of 4.5 children dying each day at the hands of parents, caretakers, relatives, and friends …

The purpose of this article is to utilize an insider's perspective to describe and analyze the
experience of abuse and neglect of adolescent girls in Israel. A purposive sample of 20 …

A MIXED METHODS APPROACH TO INCREASING UNDERSTANDING ABOUT
REPORTED SEXUAL ABUSE OF CHILDREN IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA 1990–2009 Page …

Child abuse is a tragedy that harms children psychologically, emotionally, and physically
while disrupting healthy development. Many abused children live in terror of the accused …

My dissertation makes two main contributions to the study of Islamic legal history and sexual
offences, especially those pertaining to women. The first is a reassessment of the legal and …