Parents killing their children is uncommon, but there are some risk factors around the crime such as mental illness, previous abuse and domestic violence.
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The debate about the nature of early trauma memories and their recovery isn’t new.
And yet it’s still technically legal in the UK.
It’s increasingly difficult to tell virtually-created images from those of real children.
The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse has demonstrated how catastrophically some teachers have failed their duties - a pledge is one way to turn that around.
For centuries, most children’s books reinforced messages that children are unimportant, incompetent and powerless. Children need to shape up and adopt adults’ values. Children must change to fit into an…
For over a century, British authorities have ignored the exploitation of working-class girls.
The hierarchy of the Catholic Church requires nearly absolute obedience. This makes it difficult to speak up against superiors. And by the same token, superiors too can protect offending priests.
A new model shows how the Canadian school system can play a healing role - for children traumatized by war, displacement and abuse.
Childhood trauma from abuse, neglect and even divorce increases the risk for physical, mental and developmental problems. To prevent the poisonous consequences, safety and stability are essential.
We live in a probabilistic world. The courts need to catch up – and start training juries in statistics.
What drives a child to commit sexual abuse?
Alexis Jay seems to realise failure is not an option – but she needs to bail out what looks like a sinking ship.
The NSW government’s latest promised solution to well-documented abuse in the out-of-home care system is, in fact, a re-run of promises made by the Carr government more than a decade ago.
We have decades of evidence showing the widespread abuse and neglect suffered by children in the out-of-home care system. The agencies responsible for allowing the abuse have little to fear.
New reports show a widespread lack of care for the cultural needs of many of the 19,000 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in child protection and out-of-home care.
Last year, ChildLine was contacted every 30 minutes by a young person having suicidal thoughts.
From a social media post that cracked open a decades-old abuse scandal in the UK and Australia, through to tracking asylum seekers, social media can be vital in breaking investigative news stories.
The investigation has been criticised for being too closely linked to the establishment, but is it also too close to the victims of abuse?
An implementation gap means Australian courts cannot directly enforce children’s rights as protected in international law.
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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