This text represents a significant contribution to the highly contested debate surrounding how allegations of child sexual abuse should be evaluated. It responds directly to Kuehnle and Connell's edited volume, 'The Evaluation of Child Sexual Abuse Allegations', which included chapters advocating strong specificity positions at the expense of sensitivity.
This text represents a significant contribution to the highly contested debate surrounding how allegations of child sexual abuse should be evaluated. ...
This book represents a significant contribution to the highly contested debate surrounding how allegations of child sexual abuse should be evaluated. Despite decades of substantial research in this sensitive area, professional consensus remains elusive. A particular source of contention is the sensitivity vs. specificity debate; whether evaluators should give priority to reducing the number of true allegations that are labelled false or to reducing the number of false allegations that are labelled true.
This edited collection aims to address directly and offer new insights into this...
This book represents a significant contribution to the highly contested debate surrounding how allegations of child sexual abuse should be evaluate...