From Victim to Offender: How Child Sexual Abuse Victims Become Offenders

ISBN-13: 9781863737593 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 192 str.

Freda Briggs

Opis

Autobiographical stories, written by people who were child victims and became offenders, provide unique insights into the problem of child sexual abuse.

Spis treści

Preface

1 Perspectives on offenders

2 In search of love

3 Unholy orders

4 Children in the 'care and protection' of the State

5 Little Jim

6 'It did me no harm - I did no harm'

7 Child prostitution and the law

8 The greatest taboo of all

9 One law for the rich and another for the rest of us

Postscript: Boys - the forgotten victims

O autorze

Freda Briggs has an international reputation as an expert on child abuse and is Professor at the De Lissa Institute of Early Childhood and Family Studies at the University of South Australia. She is author (with Russell Hawkins) of Child Protection, and sole author of Teaching Personal Safety Skills to Children with Disabilities, Why My Child?, Keep Children Safe, and Child Sexual Abuse.