Affiliation:
1. Right Approach Sydney Australia
2. Department of Psychology John Jay College of Criminal Justice New York New York USA
Abstract
AbstractChild sexual abuse within institutional settings has been a major concern for governments around the world for many years. Consequently, prevention policies have been developed, and institutional child abuse laws have been strengthened in many jurisdictions. Legislation is important to prevent reoffending, however, the majority of childhood sexual abuse remains unreported and undetected. While awareness of the failings of institutions to properly identify and respond to child abuse has grown in recent years, barriers to reporting institutional abuse remain understudied, impacting the ability to prevent abuse. One possible reason that prevents workers from identifying and reporting child sexual abuse is that their judgements are vulnerable to stereotypes and unconscious biases about who perpetrates and is victimised by sexual crimes and what constitutes warning signs of sexually abusive behaviours. Research in psychology provides key insights into human reasoning processes that can lead to bias, so workers fail to identify, respond and prevent grooming and child abuse in an organisational context. This paper reviews what is known about the development and maintenance of stereotypes and unconscious bias, their role in institutional sexual abuse, and concludes with a discussion of measures that can be taken to mitigate unconscious bias to prevent child abuse.
Reference96 articles.
1. Audage S.J.(2007).Preventing child sexual abuse in youth‐serving organisations: creating safe stable nurturing relationships and environments. Atlanta: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention National Centre for Injury Prevention and Control. Available at:https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/pdf/preventingchildsexualabuse-a.pdf[Accessed 20th March 2022].
2. Australian Human Rights Commission. (2018).National principles for child safe organizations. Sydney: Australian Human Rights Commission. Available at:https://childsafe.humanrights.gov.au/national-principles/about-national-principles[Accessed 10th March 2022].
3. Australian National University (ANU). (n.d.).Unconscious bias. Available at:http://www.anu.edu.au/files/resource/UnconsciousBias.pdf[Accessed 10th March 2022].
4. The impacts of institutional child sexual abuse: A rapid review of the evidence
Cited by
1 articles.
订阅此论文施引文献
订阅此论文施引文献,注册后可以免费订阅5篇论文的施引文献,订阅后可以查看论文全部施引文献