Understanding organisational risk factors for child maltreatment
A review of the literature
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Content type
Policy and practice paper
Published
June 2006
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Researchers
Lorraine Beyer, Daryl Higgins, Leah Bromfield
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Table of contents
- Contributors
- Concepts and definitions
- Executive summary
- Scope
- Messages from research
- Section 1: Background
- The literature
- Structure of the present view
- Section 2: Introduction
- Abuse in organisations
- A coordinated approach
- Section 3: Theoretical framework
- Developmental ecological theory
- Explanations of paedophilia
- Table 1: Four theories of paedophile behaviour
- Situational crime prevention
- Section 4: Methodology
- Section 5: Risk factors
- Child risk factors
- Perpetrator risk factors
- Table 2: Risk factors for sex offence recidivism
- Table 3: Child sex offender typologies
- Family risk factors
- Organisational risk factors
- Section 6: Risk management strategies
- Prevention of abuse
- Organisation risk management strategies
- Managing high risk environments
- Indigenous and minority group issues
- Investigations
- Professionalisation
- Section 7: Screening and selection
- Brief overview of screening in Australia
- Table 4: Mandatory screening ('working with children') in Australia
- The screening process
- Databases and registers
- Brief overview of screening in Australia
- Section 8: Risk assessment
- Professional judgement assessment
- Structured professional judgement assessment
- Actuarial assessment
- Assessments of specific traits
- Table 5: Risk assessment for recidivism
- Assessing the risk for maltreatment in organisations
- Section 9: Legal issues and implications
- Conceptualisations
- Balancing adult and child rights
- employer responsibility
- Section 10: Conclusion
- Research implications
- References
- Appendix A: National comparison of working with children legislation
ISBN
0-642-39537-3