TY  - SER
AU  - Blunden, Hazel
AU  - Giuntoli, Gianfranco
AU  - Newton, B.J. 
AU  - Katz, Ilan
TI  - Victims/survivors’ perceptions of helpful institutional responses to incidents of institutional child sexual abuse
PY  - 2020///
PB  - Taylor & Francis, 
KW  - ADULT SURVIVORS OF CHILD ABUSE
KW  - ADULT SURVIVORS OF SEXUAL ABUSE
KW  - JUSTICE
KW  - VICTIM/SURVIVORS' VOICES
KW  - VICTIMS OF SEXUAL VIOLENCE
KW  - INSTITUTIONAL ABUSE
KW  - INTERNATIONAL
KW  - AUSTRALIA
N1  - Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, 2020, Advance online publication, 5 October 2020
N2  - Like in many countries, the Australian Government has conducted an inquiry into child sexual abuse that occurred in institutional settings (The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse). Drawing on the findings from a qualitative study commissioned by the Royal Commission, this paper explores the perceptions of victim/survivors 1 of the ways in which institutions (or individuals within them) responded supportively when sexual abuse was reported. While researchers and inquiries have reported on inadequacy of institutional responses, this paper addresses a research gap by investigating responses that victims/survivors perceived as helpful, while mindful of the overwhelmingly negative nature of their experiences. The paper contributes to the literature on institutional responses to child sexual abuse methodologically – by reporting on the challenges of a study of this type – and theoretically, by proposing a framework indicating how different helpful elements of an institutional response to child sexual abuse relate to each other in the victim/survivors’ experiences. The findings are relevant for research on best practice in institutional responses to child sexual abuse. (Authors' abstract). Record #6859
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1080/10538712.2020.1801932
ER  -