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Book SynopsisChild sexual abuse (CSA) is believed to affect one in eight children worldwide (UNICEF, 2020). This authoritative book challenges widely-held problematic beliefs about CSA and discusses societal responses and attitudes to survivors. It brings together multidisciplinary expertise from key researchers and practitioners around the world to better understand CSA in Black and racially minoritised communities and to provide recommendations for improving legal, policy and practical responses. It provides an international overview, covering theory, practice and policy and action-oriented research to determine how countries can individually and collectively work to prevent CSA with specific, vulnerable groups and in general. It also examines how intersectional marginalisation affects experiences of, and responses to, CSA.
This essential body of work is thoroughly researched and includes first hand testimony which will deepen the understanding of students, academics, policy-makers and professionals including social workers, service staff and activists working at the frontline.
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Table of ContentsAcknowledgements
Foreword
Professor Claudia Bernard
1. Introduction
Aisha K. Gill and Hannah Begum
2. Epistemic injustice: Racially marginalised adult survivors of child sexual abuse Geetanjali Gangoli and Marianne Hester
3. Understanding the experiences of British South Asian male survivors of child sexual abuse
Hannah Begum and Aisha K. Gill
4.
Maternal Mimesis: The impact of intersectional abuse on African-Caribbean British maternal responses to ‘tellings’ of child sexual abuse by daughters Joanne Wilson
5. Preserving what for whom?’ Female victim/survivor perspectives on the silence behind child sexual abuse in Britain’s South Asian communities
Vanisha Jassal
6. Survivors speak up: Improving police responses to sexual abuse cases in Black and racially minoritised communities
Aisha K. Gill and Yasmin Khan
7. Institutional responses to child sexual abuse in ethnic minority communities
Rachel Hurcombe, Theresa Redmond, Holly Rodger and Sophia King
8. Addressing harmful sexual behaviours among children and young people: Definitional and regulatory tensions
Elizabeth Agnew and Anne-Marie McAlinden
9.
He didn’t want any of that: Considerations in the study and theorization of Black boys’ sexual victimization in the United States Tommy Curry
10.
Child sexual abuse in Latinx populations in the United States: An examination of cultural influences Maureen C. Kenny, Claire Helpingstine and Maheshi Pathirana
11. Truth, trauma and healing: Stories of Aboriginal survivors of child sexual abuse in out-of-home care
Carlina Black, Muriel Bamblett and Margarita Frederico
12. The blurred line: Balancing the treatment of personality disorders, personal trauma, and cultural trauma among individuals who have sexually offended Michael P. Lasher
13. “Pussy power”? Reflecting on research practice with Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander men who have offended sexually
Jodi Death and Kelly Richards
