Existing efforts to understand school-based child sexual abuse (CSA) prevention programs mainly focus on the effectiveness of these programs in increasing participants’ CSA knowledge and self-protective skills. There are ...

Recently released national child maltreatment data for 2008  show a generally encouraging situation during the first year of  the serious recession that began in late 2007.   Overall substan‐ tiated child maltreatment ...

New national data for 2016 show a mixed set of trends over the short term. Neglect continued to decline (down 1% from 2015). Sexual abuse was essentially unchanged. By contrast, physical abuse rose 5% and child maltreatment ...

This paper examines the interrelationships between urban young adult women’s experiences of discrimination and community violence and their reports of involvement in intimate partner violence (IPV). We explore whether such ...

In this report, you will find our thorough review of the problem and our proposal for the creation of unit-based multidisciplinary teams throughout Illinois. Our recommendations are detailed at the end, along with an ...

The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse has commissioned an international literature review to examine the research evidence on the use, justification and effectiveness of restorative justice ...

Given that most cases of child sexual abuse lack external corroborating evidence, children’s verbal accounts of their experiences are of paramount importance to investigators. Forensic interviewers are charged with ...

There has always been a strong bond between humans and animals. As far back as civilization, animals have been workers, protectors, and faithful companions. Over the last few decades, human-animal bonds have been scientifically ...

Key areas under examination in this guide are (1) understanding the behavior of child predators; (2) understanding how child predators use computers; (3) understanding how to investigate cases involving computers; and (4) ...