1st Edition

Children, Sexuality, and Child Sexual Abuse

By Dianna T. Kenny Copyright 2018
328 Pages 26 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

328 Pages 26 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

328 Pages 26 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

In the past 20 years, the progressive uncovering of child sexual abuse in institutional settings has reverberated across the globe with simultaneous investigations across Europe and the English-speaking world. However, most books on child sexual abuse are narrowly focused and do not situate this most distressing of human behaviours within a social or historical context. Children, Sexuality, and... Read more

List of Tables, Figures and Boxes

Foreword

Introduction

Chapter 1. Overview: Childhood, sex and society

Chapter 2. Sexual development and behaviour in children

Chapter 3. Adverse experiences in childhood

Chapter 4. Prevalence of child sexual abuse

Chapter 5. Abuse and neglect of children in Indigenous communities

Chapter 6. Institutional child sexual abuse

Chapter 7. Disclosure of child sexual abuse

Chapter 8. Assessment of child sexual abuse

Chapter 9. The effects of child sexual abuse

Chapter 10. Memory

Chapter 11. When memory deceives: False and recovered memories

Chapter 12. Young people who sexually offend

Biography

Dianna T. Kenny is Professor of Psychology and Professor of Music at The University of Sydney. Her most recent publications include God, Freud and Religion: The Origins of Fear, Faith and Fundamentalism (Routledge 2015).