All Outputs (76)

Strength-based approaches to online child sexual abuse: Using self-management strategies to enhance desistance behaviour in users of child sexual exploitation material (2017)
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© 2017, © Emerald Publishing Limited. Purpose: Increasing numbers of convictions for the use of child sexual exploitation material (CSEM) call for enhanced measures to prevent this type of offending. Strength-based approaches such as the good lives m... Read More about Strength-based approaches to online child sexual abuse: Using self-management strategies to enhance desistance behaviour in users of child sexual exploitation material.

Considering the alternatives to traditional child sexual abuser risk management: Prevention? (2017)
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a blog discussing prevention in the sexual abuse field.

Drug-facilitated sexual assault and chemical submission (2017)
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In recent years, the use of psychoactive substances for sexual assault has taken on a greater role. The practice of sexual crimes associated with drug use is called Drug-Facilitated Sexual Assault (DFSA), while 'Chemical Submission' (CS) is used to i... Read More about Drug-facilitated sexual assault and chemical submission.

Leverhulme international network (2016)
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A discussion of the work and practices of an international network.

Reflecting back, moving forward: Part 1 - Highlights 2015 (2016)
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Blog post for Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment blog. The authors select what they consider to be some of the standout articles from the 2015 across the sexual harm field.

Sexual harm in virtual worlds (2016)
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Blog post for Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment blog. An overview of the context of sexual harm in virtual worlds and developments in criminal justice responses.

Talking prevention with Maia Christopher – from prison to prevention in 12 easy badges (2016)
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Blog post for Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment blog. Kieran McCartan interviews Maia Christopher, executive director of the Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers.

The Adam Johnson Trial: Talking healthy and appropriate sexual relationships with youth (2016)
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Blog post for Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment blog. Kieran McCartan considers public reactions to the Adam Johnson trial and the implications for about how we think and talk about sexual relationships with youths and teenagers.

Reflecting back, moving forward: Part 2 - Looking forward to 2016 (2016)
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Blog post for Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment blog. The authors address what they think are some of the salient issues facing the sexual harm field in 2016.

Evolution does not mandate revolution: The role of evaluation and developing an evidence base (2016)
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Blog post for Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment blog. Kieran McCartan considers the role of evaluation (e.g., evaluation of a policy, the completion of treatment goals or of a program itself) and where independence sits within it.

ATSA-2015, Montreal – Conference highlights (2015)
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Blog post for Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment blog. The authors discuss the highlights of the 2015 Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers conference.

The more things change, the more they stay the same….... or do they? (2015)
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Blog post for Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment blog. Kieran McCartan looks at sexual harm education and safeguarding issues from a a policy and public engagement perspective.

"Dancing through the puddles to eradicate sexual harm" Talking prevention with Cordelia Anderson (2015)
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Blog post for Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment blog. Kieran McCartan interviews Cordelia Anderson on multidisciplinary approaches to sexual harm.

Big world, similar issues (2015)
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Blog post for Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment blog. Kieran McCartan considers issues in sexual harm treatment and prevention common to a number of different countries/societies.

The prevention of sexual abuse and violence in the UK (2015)
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Blog post for Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment blog. The authors review developments in the prevention of sexual abuse and violence in the UK over the last four decades and introduce the newly-formed NOTA Prevention Committee.

We are not that different after all........ (2015)
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Blog post for Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment blog. Kieran McCartan discusses the ways in which perpetrators of sexual harm are similar to each other as well as to other offender groups at a baseline level.

Desistence from sexual offending (2015)
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Blog post for Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment blog. Review of a research symposium in March 2015 at Queens University, Belfast, organised by Shadd Maruna, Anne-Marie McAlinden and Mark Farmer. The seminar focused on desistence fr... Read More about Desistence from sexual offending.

Get it, got it, good? Media interpretation and sexual harm (2015)
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Blog post for Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment blog. Kieran McCartan reflects on the importance of the media in changing social perceptions and attitudes towards sexual harm and examines the changing approach of the media to this... Read More about Get it, got it, good? Media interpretation and sexual harm.

NOTA annual conference, Dublin 2015 (2015)
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Blog post for Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment blog. A review of the NOTA annual conference 2015, which had a theme of "Sexual Offending Research and Practice: sharing our knowledge to make a difference".

Scientific inquiry, even with its limitations, should prevail over ideology (2015)
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Blog post for Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment blog. The authors discuss the theories behind and evidence for the success of CoSA.