Seeking Justice in Child Sexual Abuse: Shifting Burdens and Sharing Responsibilities
Edited by Karen M. Staller and Kathleen Coulborn Faller
eISBN: 9780231518260
2009 (288 pages )
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(pages 1-368)
Table of Contents
(pages 5-6)
Note to the Reader
(pages 7-10)
1 Child Sexual Abuse: Legal Burdens and Scientific Methods
(pages 11-42)
Part I: People, Personalities, and Protocol Development
(pages 43-44)
2 Prosecutors and a Protocol: Switching Doors and Staying in Place
(pages 45-78)
3 Sex Busters
(pages 79-96)
Part II. Protocol as Process
(pages 97-98)
4 Investigation of Child Sexual Abuse: Interviewing Victims and Interrogating Suspects
(pages 99-122)
5 Professional Practitioners’ Views on Videotaping: Capturing and Conveying a Child’s Story
(pages 123-150)
6 Polygraph Magic
(pages 151-175)
7 Shifting the Narrative Burden Throughout Investigationsand Prosecutions of Child Sexual Abuse
(pages 176-203)
8 Shouldering the Shifted Burden: The Defense Attorneys
(pages 204-234)
9 Victim and Offender Treatment and Therapeutic Justice
(pages 235-258)
Part III. The Overall Process and Concluding Lessons
(pages 259-260)
10 People, Protocol, and Process: The Inman Case
(pages 261-295)
11 Conclusions from the Study of St. Mary County
(pages 296-324)
Bibliography
(pages 325-342)
Contributors and Members of the Research Team
(pages 343-346)
Index
(pages 347-368)
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Seeking Justice in Child Sexual Abuse: Shifting Burdens and Sharing Responsibilities
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 rather than ask the victim to bear the burden of proof.
Treating this county as a critical case study, scholars from a variety of fields come together to analyze this community's unique approach. They address relevant case law, innovative treatments for both victim and offender, and the social history of child sexual abuse as a national policy concern. They cover legal burdens and scientific methods, prosecutors and protocol, the interrogation of victims and suspects, the use of expert witnesses, defense strategies, and practice wisdom in videotaping. In addition, they examine the unfolding drama of a single legal case from incidence to conviction.
The result is a fascinating dialogue that confronts the unique complexities of child sexual abuse for readers on all sides of the issue. Introducing a model that makes enormous headway in the pursuit of justice, fairness, and trauma treatment, this interdisciplinary text is an indispensible tool for all communities seeking redress.
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Table of Contents
Seeking Justice in Child Sexual Abuse: Shifting Burdens and Sharing Responsibilities
Author(s):
Staller, Karen M., and Kathleen Coulborn Faller, eds.
Keyword(s):
SW01; SW09; SW03; CSWO
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