Context matters: Conceptualising and operationalising the contextual prevention of child sexual abuse
There is growing recognition of the contextual dynamics of child sexual abuse, with a developing evidence base supporting it, sparking calls to ensure prevention efforts are contextualised. Contextual approaches extend the focus of prevention beyond the individual, to include immediate situations, a...
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Published in | Child abuse review (Chichester, England : 1992) Vol. 33; no. 1 |
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Main Authors | , , , , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
Published |
01.01.2024
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Summary: | There is growing recognition of the contextual dynamics of child sexual abuse, with a developing evidence base supporting it, sparking calls to ensure prevention efforts are contextualised. Contextual approaches extend the focus of prevention beyond the individual, to include immediate situations, and the physical and social contexts in which abuse occurs. Although academic and industry support for contextual approaches is gaining momentum, there is no consistent definition of contextual prevention nor operational clarity currently available to inform research, policy and practice. This contributes to a lack of policy guidance and practice consistency; also impeding much needed evaluation research, and likely slowing scholarly and practice uptake. In this article, we address this important gap. Based on a critical review of relevant literature, we propose a conceptual definition of contextual prevention and its operationalisation and provide a framework and guidance for policymakers and practitioners tasked with protecting children from child sexual abuse. |
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Bibliography: | Funding information The development of this paper was supported by a Westpac Safer Children, Safer Communities Grant. The views expressed within this paper are solely those of the authors. This is a conceptual paper, based on published literature only. Data sharing is not applicable to this article as no research participants were engaged and no datasets were generated or analysed. This paper is exempt from ethical review. This paper is based on a review of published literature only. None of the authors have a conflict of interest to disclose. |
ISSN: | 0952-9136 1099-0852 |
DOI: | 10.1002/car.2859 |