You Feel Like You Did Something So Wrong”

Women's Experiences of a Loved One's Child Sexual Abuse Material Offending

Bibliographic Data

ID12436444
AuthorsMichael Salter (0000-0001-6446-9498, UNSW Sydney, corresponding author), Delanie Woodlock (0000-0002-9398-0890, UNSW Sydney), Christian Jones (0000-0003-4048-2545, UNSW Sydney), Candace Jones (0009-0004-0668-3145, UNSW Sydney)
Year2023
Volume30
Issue3-4
Pages890-910
Publication date2023-10-23
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueViolence Against Women (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1077-8012 • E-ISSN: 1552-8448
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/10778012231208974
PMID37872683
OpenAlexW4387893082
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited32

This article examines the experiences of female partners and relatives of child sexual abuse material offenders and the (il)legibility of their experiences within prevailing theoretical frameworks and policy responses to violence against women. Drawing on survey and interview data with clients of a specialist support agency, we situate the lack of understanding and support available to these women within the systematic depoliticization of child sexual abuse. The article traces how women developed their own social critique of child sexual exploitation as a form of gendered violence and called for a feminist reengagement with the politics of child sexual abuse

Agency (philosophy · Child abuse · Child sexual abuse · Criminology · Legibility · Medical emergency · Poison control · Political science · Politics · Psychiatry · Sexual abuse · Social science · Sociology · Suicide prevention · Child Abuse and Trauma · Intimate Partner and Family Violence · Law · Medicine · Psychology · Sex work and related issues · Social Psychology

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