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040 _aAFVC
100 _aMcCartan, Kieran
_99277
245 _aProfessionals’ understandings of and attitudes to the prevention of sexual abuse :
_ban international exploratory study
_cKieran McCartan, Kasia Uzieblo and Wineke J. Smid
260 _bSage,
_c2020
500 _aInternational Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, 2020, Advance online publication, 23 May 2020
520 _aSexual abuse is a global issue and, therefore, responding to and preventing sexual abuse are global challenges. Although we have examples of and evidence for sexual abuse prevention initiatives internationally, these tend to come from a small, select group of countries (i.e., United Kingdom, United States, Canada, Germany, Netherlands, New Zealand, and Australia) and not from a broader global pool. This article will present the qualitative data from an online study (n = 82), covering 17 countries, on professionals’ (i.e., people working in the arena of sexual offending from a clinical, criminal justice, policy, research, and/or practice perspective) perceptions sexual abuse prevention in theory, practice, and policy. The article identifies three main themes: (a) professionals’ understandings of the prevention of sexual abuse, (b) public understanding of sexual abuse prevention, and (c) governmental attitudes towards, and support of, sexual abuse prevention programs. The article highlights that, although there are similar understandings of sexual abuse prevention internationally, practice is characterised by national differences in the funding of, provision of, and public/policy perceptions of prevention as well as its impact on offending. (Authors' abstract). The research is part of a larger study looking at professional attitudes to the assessment, management, treatment, and integration of people who have sexually offended. The survey sampled members of an international organisation, with 3,000+ members across 20 countries, involved in assessment, treatment, and integration back into the community of people who have been convicted of a sexual offence. The survey had 82 respondents, of those 46 were female (57%) and 36 were male (43%). The participants spanned 17 countries with a mixed response rate, for some countries had many participants (i.e., Australia, New Zealand, and Italy) and other had few (Denmark, Ireland, Israel, Japan, Puerto Rico, Singapore, Sweden, and Switzerland). Record #6875
650 _aATTITUDES
_970
650 _aINTERVENTION
_9326
650 _aOFFENDERS
_9413
650 _aPREVENTION
_9458
650 _aPRIMARY PREVENTION
_93268
650 4 _aSEXUAL VIOLENCE
_9531
651 _aINTERNATIONAL
_93624
651 4 _aAUSTRALIA
_92597
651 _aITALY
_95218
651 4 _aNEW ZEALAND
_92588
700 _aUzieblo, Kasia
_99457
700 _aSmid, Wineke J.
_99458
773 0 _tInternational Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, 2020, Advance online publication, 23 May 2020
830 _aInternational Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology
_94640
856 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1177/0306624X20919706
_zDOI; 10.1177/0306624X20919706 (Open access)
942 _2ddc
_cARTICLE