The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse commissioned this literature review to synthesise international evidence regarding risk and protective factors related to child sexual abuse in institutional contexts.

Topics include: family risk factors, setting-based risk factors, offender diversity, victim selection and grooming, facilitators for perpetration, protective factors, faith-based settings, early childhood education and care and schools, healthcare settings, out-of-home care, sports, screening, situational prevention approaches, education and training strategies, applying prevention strategies in non-major institutions, and implications for practice.