• A Review of Organizational Laws and Management Policies of the Roman Catholic Church to Address Clerical Child Sexual Abuse in the 20th Century 

  Rashid, Faisal (University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2022)

  During the early 1980’s and 1990’s, clerical child sexual abuse (cCSA) in the Roman Catholic Church (RCC) gained public attention, escalating into a major scandal by the beginning of the 21st century. The Vatican’s ...
• COVID-19 and the unseen pandemic of child abuse 

  Park, W., & Walsh, K. (BMJ paediatrics open, 2022)

  For children, the collateral damage of the COVID-19 pandemic response has been considerable: ‘nearly insurmountable’ educational losses, deteriorating mental health, low routine childhood vaccination rates, 39 ...
• Increasing the Efficacy of Investigations of Online Child Sexual Exploitation 

  Levine, Brian Neal (University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2022)

  The goal of this report is “to identify investigative factors that reliably indicate whether a subject of an online child exploitation investigation poses a high risk of harm to children,” per Section 401 of the PROTECT ...
• Child Abuse or Accident? Bringing Science to Pediatric Emergency Departments and Forensic Investigation 

  Dawson, Jim (National Institute of Justice Journal, 2021)

  Understanding Injuries The need for their work is reflected in the high number of children brought into emergency departments in the United States each year and the difficulty doctors and nurses face in sorting the accidents ...
• Attachment goes to court: child protection and custody issues 

  Forslund, T., Granqvist, P., van IJzendoorn, M. H., Sagi-Schwartz, A., Glaser, D., Steele, M., ... & Duschinsky, R. (Attachment & Human Development, 2022)

  Attachment theory and research are drawn upon in many applied settings, including family courts, but misunderstandings are widespread and sometimes result in misapplications. The aim of this consensus statement is, ...

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