Toward a more comprehensive analysis of the role of organizational culture in child sexual abuse in institutional contexts

dc.contributor.authorPalmer, D., & Feldman, V.
dc.date.accessioned2017-12-04T18:39:29Z
dc.date.available2017-12-04T18:39:29Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.description.abstractThis article draws on a report prepared for the Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse (Palmer et al., 2016) to develop a more comprehensive analysis of the role that organizational culture plays in child sexual abuse in institutional contexts, where institutional contexts are taken to be formal organizations that include children among their members (referred to here as “youth-serving organizations”). We begin by integrating five strains of theory and research on organizational culture from organizational sociology and management theory into a unified framework for analysis. We then elaborate the main paths through which organizational culture can influence child sexual abuse in youth-serving organizations. We then use our unified analytic framework and our understanding of the main paths through which organizational culture can influence child sexual abuse in youth-serving organizations to analyze the role that organizational culture plays in the perpetration, detection, and response to child sexual abuse in youth-serving organizations. We selectively illustrate our analysis with case materials compiled by the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse and reports of child sexual abuse published in a variety of other sources. We conclude with a brief discussion of the policy implications of our analysis.en_US
dc.identifier.citationPalmer, D., & Feldman, V. (2017). Toward a more comprehensive analysis of the role of organizational culture in child sexual abuse in institutional contexts. Child Abuse & Neglect.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S014521341730282X
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11212/3639
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherChild Abuse & Neglecten_US
dc.subjectchild sexual abuseen_US
dc.subjectyouth serving institutionsen_US
dc.subjectorganizational cultureen_US
dc.subjectorganizational changeen_US
dc.subjectinstitutional abuseen_US
dc.titleToward a more comprehensive analysis of the role of organizational culture in child sexual abuse in institutional contextsen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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