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Obfuscating Child Sexual Abuse I: The Identification of Social Problems
Author(s) -
TaylorBrowne Julie
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
child abuse review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.569
H-Index - 41
eISSN - 1099-0852
pISSN - 0952-9136
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1099-0852(199703)6:1<4::aid-car290>3.0.co;2-#
Subject(s) - identification (biology) , psychology , criminology , child sexual abuse , sexual abuse , medical emergency , developmental psychology , social psychology , human factors and ergonomics , poison control , medicine , botany , biology
Despite the increase in public knowledge about the existence of child sexual abuse, caused by public inquiries, media attention and the significant number of publications on the subject, the problem of child sexual abuse has failed to be systematically addressed as a policy problem. It appears that neither the public nor the government has been convinced that child sexual abuse is a serious problem which is common, persistent and widespread across the dimensions of race, ability and social class. This paper examines the factors which enable child sexual abuse to be obfuscated, that is, obscured and hidden. © 1997 by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.