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Tech platforms need to be responsible for reporting online child sexual exploitation rather than relying on victims to do so.
Perpetrators gradually build trust with young people before pressuring them to harm pets, siblings, or themselves.
The unfortunate reality is that many children who experience these tragic outcomes are already known to services.
What do we tell a young person asking why their favourite book has disappeared – or why it hasn’t? A children’s writer wrestles with how to handle Craig Silvey’s books.
Overseas experience suggests predictive tools can improve child protection, if used carefully. Should NZ reconsider its stance?
A new eSafety report reveals an ongoing gap between what technology can do and what companies are actually doing to tackle child abuse.
Speaking to women who have been convicted of child sexual abuse may help us work out what could have stopped the abuse in the first place.
The conversation around #iwasfifteen sheds light on the dynamics of abusive relationships and the experiences of trafficking victims.
Lethal domestic violence is persistent, despite a statewide decline in overall homicides.
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s legislation attacks critical gender-based violence prevention in the province.
Kids who abuse others don’t always go on to commit more violence as adults. But intervention is key.
Parents have spoken up about harrowing cases of their young children being abused by other children in daycare centres.
It is never too early to teach kids body autonomy and normalise safety in relationships.
Two groups of clergy challenged a Washington state law meant to help fight child abuse – but which could have required clergy to break the seal of confession.
Sad Tiger and Trauma Plot are two stunning memoirs by rape survivors who immerse themselves in art and literature. They both transcend ‘art as therapy’.
Young people who are being abused or neglected are more likely to turn to informal online support systems than to authorities.
All Australia’s education ministers met in Sydney to agree on a new package of measures to improve safety in childcare.
AI-generated deepfake abuse material is easy to create – but there’s plenty we can do to stop it spreading in our schools.
A study interviewing teenagers reveals how parents can coercively control their children under the guise of parental discipline.
Top contributors
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Associate Supervisor in Child Abuse and Neglect, University of Huddersfield
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Professor of Criminology, UNSW
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PhD Student, Faculty of Law, Monash University
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Professor of Health and Social Policy, University of Liverpool
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Professor & Director, Institute of Child Protection Studies, Australian Catholic University
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Associate Professor in Criminology and Criminal Justice, Griffith University
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Lecturer in Social Work, University of Salford
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Professor of Sociology, University of Essex
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Professor (Practice), Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University
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Director, Arney Chong Consulting and Positive Futures Research, Adelaide University
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Visiting Research Fellow, School of Law, University of Leeds
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Professor of Criminology, City St George's, University of London
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Western Sydney University
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Professor of Family and Sexual Violence, RMIT University
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Professor of Safeguarding and Violence Prevention, Director of the Institute for Children's Futures, Manchester Metropolitan University