000			02598nab a22003137a 4500
650			_9121 _aCHILD SEXUAL ABUSE
999			_c5292 _d5292
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040			_aAFVC
100			_aMowat, Keith _96394
245			_aResituating masculinity and power in preventing child sexual abuse _cKeith Mowat, Leigh Coombes and Robbie Busch
260			_bAustralian Psychological Society, _c2016
500			_aAustralian Community Psychologist, 2016, 28(1): 24-45 (Open access)
520			_aWhile attempts to address the perpetration of child sexual abuse often reduce focus to individual, psychopathological and actuarial levels of analysis in psychology, contextual understandings of gendered power relations are largely unexamined. A statistical focus on the prevalence and risk of sex offenders to the community excludes critical, contextual and discursive understandings of how masculinity is practised and how it contributes to men’s sexual offending. Through locating issues of child sexual abuse within hegemonic institutional and social power relations of masculinity, we challenge dominant reductionist positionings of the offender to simplified constructs of deviancy and abnormality. We present two case studies of the experiences of men who were child sex offenders, interviewed as part of a wider study. In investigating their narratives, we examine their experiences of power and powerlessness, and the discursive resources available to them, determined through their socio-political contexts, which influenced their masculine identities, practices, and subsequent offending. Questioning masculinity as a socially determined practice of power and powerlessness opened a space for the men to become reflective of how their community contexts confirmed their gendered practices that led to sexual offending. Such insights could create transformative possibilities and interventions that could prevent child sex offending. (Authors' abstract). Record 5292
650			_9458 _aPREVENTION
650			_aABUSIVE MEN _926
650			_aATTITUDES _970
650			_aCASE STUDIES _9101
650			_aMASCULINITY _9361
650			_aNARRATIVE TECHNIQUES _9399
650			_aSEX OFFENDERS _9528
651		4	_aNEW ZEALAND _92588
700			_aCoombes, Leigh _9962
700			_aBusch, Robbie _94755
773	0		_tAustralian Community Psychologist, 2016, 28(1): 24-45 (Open access)
830			_aAustralian Community Psychologist _94765
856			_uhttps://groups.psychology.org.au/Assets/Files/Mowat-ACP-28-1-2016.pdf
942			_2ddc _cARTICLE