The #MeToo movement brought to light the extent of sexual violence in the community, largely through the media. But there is still a long way to go to overturn stereotypes and shut down online abuse.
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Recent media reports point to years of sexual abuse by Southern Baptist pastors. An expert writes why a long culture of women’s submission is responsible for this crisis.
Australian Catholics are drifting from the church, and research shows sexual abuse scandals are a main reason why.
Brazil’s John of God is a “spiritual healer” who performs surgeries without anaesthesia. Millions have experienced his unique healing methods, but now hundreds of women say he sexually abused them.
What research shows does and doesn’t work to prevent people convicted of sexual offences from reoffending.
These reorganizations may provide roadmaps for other nonprofits to follow if they face abuse allegations in the #MeToo era.
John of God, the Brazilian spiritual leader accused of sexual assault, exploited women with a network of people dependent on him for money and power.
Under victim-blaming attitudes, the survivors of sexual violence suffer from double victimisation: being assaulted and being blamed.
The testimony of Christine Blasey Ford in the Kavanaugh nomination hearings showed what happens when abuse survivors enter systems that are not designed to respond to their words or meet their needs.
While the problem of priestly abuse might be centuries old, its modern paper trail began after World War II, when ‘treatment centers’ appeared for rehabilitating priests. Many were send to New Mexico.
A series of brutal rapes in India has led to pressure to stop violence against women.
In the wake of the #MeToo movement and women finally feeling free to discuss having been sexually assaulted, it may seem like all men are predators. A trauma psychologist says this is far from true.
While many American Catholics believe demons and exorcism to be part of a distant past, an expert explains how beliefs that sexual desires could be part of demonic temptation still persist.
Academics and PhD students from a number of Australian universities have reported sexualised bullying, unfair workloads, sexual harassment and in some cases even sexual assault, usually from their superiors and supervisors.
Australia has guidelines for designing safe parks, but the stories of many women show these are not enough. We must involve women in co-designing these shared public spaces.
Victims of image based sexual abuse deserve legal clarity.
Courts have created three legal barriers that have made it much harder for workers to complain to their employers about sexual harassment.
With controversial Christian educators like Paige Patterson who believe that the Bible teaches women to submit to men, it matters to know today that evangelicals encouraged women’s education in the past.
Laws around the world continue to fail victims of rape and sexual abuse. It is time this, too, changed.
France’s answer to #MeToo was #BalanceTonPorc – “denounce your pig”. An analysis of the idioms linking to sex and pigs provides some insights into why the hashtag hit home.
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Professor of Criminology, UNSW
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Canada Research Chair in Inequality and Gender, Western University
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Associate Professor in Criminology, The University of Melbourne
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Albert E. Kent Professor of Psychiatry, Yale University
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Professor of Law, Durham University
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Senior Lecturer, School of Humanities and Social Science, University of Newcastle
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Former Director, National Centre for Social Research
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Associate Supervisor in Child Abuse and Neglect, University of Huddersfield
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Clinician-Scientist, Queen's University, Ontario
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