While awareness of institutional child sexual abuse has grown in recent years, there
remains limited understanding of its occurrence and outcomes as a distinct form of abuse …

Objective: Emotional congruence with children is an exaggerated affective and cognitive
affiliation with children that is posited to be involved in the initiation and maintenance of …

Put together by an outstanding author team, including many authors from the University of
Northampton, An Introduction to Early Childhood is a much loved book that helps you …

Abstract The Four Preconditions Model asserted that four preconditions needed to be met in
order for child sexual abuse to occur:(1) an offender with a predisposition to sexually abuse …

There is virtually no literature on child sexual abuse committed by “powerful perpetrators”,
who, use position, reputation, wealth and/or power, to become influential members of their …

Research has identified stable and dynamic characteristics in child sexual abusers working
with children (CSA-W) that may distinguish them from other child sexual abusers (CSA) …

To date, there has been very little research into the phenomenon of female-perpetrated
institutional child sexual abuse (CSA). This study explored 71 cases of CSA perpetrated by …

This book critically examines socio-political constructions of risk related to sexual offending
behaviour by and among children and young people and charts the rise of harmful sexual or …

Child sexual abuse occurring in a child-or youth-serving institution or organization has
attracted great public and scientific attention. In light of the particular personal and offense …

Background Child maltreatment by caregivers seem to make a significant contribution to
general maltreatment rates. Interestingly, research assessing prevalence rates of …