Impacts of Institutional Child Sexual Abuse on Victims/Survivors: A Rapid Review of Research Findings
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2017
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Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.
Abstract
This report presents the results of a rapid review of available evidence on the impact of
institutional child sexual abuse. The critical synthesis of available evidence provided will
contribute to developing understandings of institutional child sexual abuse. While public and
professional awareness of institutional child sexual abuse is steadily growing, relatively less is
known about the phenomenon compared to intra-familial and other forms of extra-familial
child sexual abuse. This report attends to this knowledge gap by drawing on peer-reviewed
journal articles, meta-analyses and reports from landmark government inquiries to present a
critical synthesis of available evidence describing impacts of institutional child sexual abuse on
victims/survivors. The report explores characteristics of institutional abuse, the situations and
settings in which it occurs, factors proposed to potentially mediate its causes and
consequences, as well as its common and distinct outcomes when compared to child sexual
abuse not associated with institutions or organisations.
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Keywords
institutional abuse, Australia, International Resources
Citation
Blakemore, T., Herbert, J. L., Arney, F., & Parkinson, M. S. (2017). Impacts of Institutional Child Sexual Abuse on Victims/Survivors: A Rapid Review of Research Findings. Sydney: Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.