Estimating the costs of child sexual abuse in the UK.
Abstract
This is the first paper, as far as we are aware, to confront the
critical issue of the overall costs of child sexual abuse in the
UK. It is important to have an understanding about the costs
of abuse for a number of reasons. Firstly, knowing the costs of
CSA allow for better informed decisions about expenditure on its
prevention and treatment, as well as raising awareness of its scale
and impact. Secondly, it enables policy makers to put spending
on child sexual abuse in the context of other costly public health
issues such as obesity and smoking. Attempting to calculate the
costs of CSA also highlight gaps in our knowledge where we can
work on improving evidence in the future. Finally, this project
provides a framework for estimating the costs of other forms of
child abuse and neglect in the UK.
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Keywords
United Kingdom, International Resources, child sexual abuse, costs, prevalence, incidence, health care, criminal justice system
Citation
Saied-Tessier, A. (2014). Estimating the costs of child sexual abuse in the UK. NSPCC.