Children are the most criminally victimized segment of the population, and a substantial
number face multiple, serious" poly-victimizations" during a single year. And despite the fact …

This expanded and updated Second Edition of Legal Issues in Child Abuse and Neglect
Practice offers a state-of-the-art exploration of what role the law can play in bettering the …

Childhood sexual abuse (CSA) is shockingly common among women in the USA and is
particularly prevalent among female psychiatric patients. Despite theoretical accounts and …

Numerous innovative procedural reforms have been proposed concerning child victims
involved in legal cases. In this study, 153 district attorney offices nationwide were surveyed …

This study attempts to discover if further traumatization occurs to sexually abused children
through societal system interventions. The Traumagenic Model, developed by David …

This study examined vulnerability or resilience to intergenerational sexual abuse. The
sample included 196 African American mothers and their children of which 96 were sexually …

Although child abuse is a favourite topic for media stories, there has been little research on
how the media portrays such issues. The present research examined the media construction …

First published in 1996. With so much information available today in the area of child abuse,
figuring out where to begin quickly becomes overwhelming. But the Spectrum of Child …

Victims of child sexual abuse (CSA) are likely to show a wide range of adaptation difficulties.
In addition, some children and their families are involved in legal proceedings following the …

To examine the ability of children aged between 4 and 12 years to recall a stressful event
(venipuncture) compared with a non‐stressful event (demonstration of venipuncture), recall …