Seeking Justice in Child Sexual Abuse : : Shifting Burdens and Sharing Responsibilities /

Seeking Justice in Child Sexual Abuse : : Shifting Burdens and Sharing Responsibilities / / ed. by Kathleen Coulborn Faller, Karen Staller.

St. Mary County is a small rural midwestern enclave with a unique approach to handling accusations of child sexual abuse. Hoping to spare children the trauma of lengthy court appearances and probing interrogations, St. Mary's professionals strive to obtain confessions from accused sex offenders...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
MitwirkendeR:
Buch, Elana D.,
Faller, Kathleen Coulborn,
Henry, Jim,
Staller, Karen M.,
Vandervort, Frank E.,
HerausgeberIn:
Faller, Kathleen Coulborn,
Staller, Karen,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2009]
©2009
Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (288 p.) :; 6 halftones, 6 tables
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Note to the Reader
  • 1. Child Sexual Abuse
  • Part I: People, Personalities, and Protocol Development
  • 2. Prosecutors and a Protocol
  • 3. Sex Busters
  • Part II. Protocol as Process
  • 4. Investigation of Child Sexual Abuse
  • 5. Professional Practitioners' Views on Videotaping
  • 6. Polygraph Magic
  • 7. Shifting the Narrative Burden Throughout Investigations and Prosecutions of Child Sexual Abuse
  • 8. Shouldering the Shifted Burden
  • 9. Victim and Offender Treatment and Therapeutic Justice
  • Part III. The Overall Process and Concluding Lessons
  • 10. People, Protocol, and Process
  • 11. Conclusions from the Study of St. Mary County
  • Bibliography
  • Contributors and Members of the Research Team
  • Index

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