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  • Endemic sexual violence and abuse: Contexts and dispositions

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    Author(s)
    Rayment-McHugh, Susan
    Smallbone, Stephen
    Tilley, Nick
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Smallbone, Stephen W.
    Rayment-McHugh, Susan N.
    Year published
    2015
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    Endemic sexual violence and abuse has been observed in a number of specific circumstances, most notably conflict zones, remote and marginalised communities, and religious and state institutions. In this article we examine several documented examples and argue that a similar set of causal processes are at work in all of these otherwise apparently disparate circumstances. Rather than construing the problem as ‘organised’ sexual abuse, we present the problem in terms of the breakdown (or disorganisation) of usual individual, situational and ecological constraints.Endemic sexual violence and abuse has been observed in a number of specific circumstances, most notably conflict zones, remote and marginalised communities, and religious and state institutions. In this article we examine several documented examples and argue that a similar set of causal processes are at work in all of these otherwise apparently disparate circumstances. Rather than construing the problem as ‘organised’ sexual abuse, we present the problem in terms of the breakdown (or disorganisation) of usual individual, situational and ecological constraints.
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    Journal Title
    International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy
    Volume
    4
    Issue
    2
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.5204/ijcjsd.v4i2.233
    Copyright Statement
    © The Author(s) 2015. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0) License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
    Subject
    Criminology not elsewhere classified
    Criminology
    Sociology
    Law
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/101586
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