Preventing Sexual Harm: Positive Criminology and Sexual Abuse

Preventing Sexual Harm provides an overview of current criminal justice strategies for tackling sexual violence and highlights existing positive criminological approaches that could help prevent sexual abuse and harm. It explores positive criminology as a mechanism to reduce the risk of recidivism, eradicate harm, prevent reoffending, and help reintegrate those with histories of sexual abuse back into the community.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 164 pages
Publication date: 30 May 2022
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Sexual violence is a complex and multifaceted crime that has enduring causes and consequences embedded within our social, cultural, and political constructs. A response to sexual violence must be equally complex and multi-faceted, as alternative approaches may be necessary. This book explores positive criminology as a mechanism to reduce the risk of recidivism, eradicate harm, prevent reoffending, and help reintegrate individuals with histories of sexual abuse back into the community. In light of recent historic cases of sexual abuse and poor institutional response to these allegations, the book provides an overview of the current landscape of sexual offending. It then reviews the current positive criminological approaches already in existence in the effort to prevent sexual abuse by outlining the approach of positive criminology and demonstrating the many gaps in practice that could benefit from this new way of working. By highlighting that an alternative response to sexual violence is needed and presenting the idea that a positive criminological paradigm is worthy of further examination, this book will be of great interest to scholars of criminology, criminal justice, and forensic psychology.

Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367624095