Organised child sexual abuse / Michael Salter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Salter, Michael, 1957- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Child sexual abuse.

Child abuse--Law and legislation.

Sexually abused children--Legal status, laws, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (214 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon [U.K.] ; New York : Routledge, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Organised Sexual Abuse offers a comprehensive, interdisciplinary investigation of this phenomenon. Since the early 1980s, social workers and mental health professionals around the globe have encountered clients reporting sexual abuse by organized groups or networks. These allegations have been amongst the most controversial in debates over child sexual abuse, raising many unanswered questions. Are reports of organized abuse factual or the product of moral panic and false memories? If these reports are true, what is the appropriate response? The fields of child protection and psycho

Contents:

Cover; Organised Sexual Abuse; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Terminology; 1 A subject of smoke and mirrors: understanding organised abuse; Conflicting approaches to organised abuse; Criminality and violence as a gendered practice; Masculinity and sexual offending; Abuse, domination and intersubjectivity; Organised abuse as a collective masculine performance; Conclusion; 2 Organised abuse cases: network, institutional, familial and ritual; The limitations of data on organised abuse; Research into organised abuse; Network abuse

Institutional organised abuseFamilial organised abuse; Ritualistic abuse; Gender, age and power in organised abuse; Conclusion; 3 The historical context: liberalism, libertinism and ideologies of masculine sexuality; Ideologies of masculine sadism; Liberalism, gender and sexual violence; From liberalism to libertinism; The Marquis de Sade and libertine excess; Sadean abuses in contemporary society; Conclusion; 4 Organised abuse and the pleasures of disbelief; The rise of the 'false memory' movement; The construction of 'satanic ritual abuse'; The pleasures of disbelief

The consequences of the pleasures of disbeliefConclusion; 5 Down the rabbit hole: my story; Being a friend; Being a carer; Being an advocate and academic; Conclusion; 6 The experiences of survivors: extraordinary crimes in everyday life; Renee's story; Power and abuse in the home; Abuse in schools, churches and residential care; The continuum of abuse and powerlessness; Conclusion; 7 Living in two worlds: familial organised abuse; Private abuse, public facade: dissociation and the public-private divide; Paternal domination; Maternal complicity

When one parent doesn't know: the complexities of deceit and denialThe colonisation of family relations by organised abuse; 'It's all a bad dream': parental facilitation of abusive incidents; Conclusion; 8 Sadistic abuse: control, violence and pleasure in organised abuse; Grooming and processes of control; Sadism and internal colonisation; Conclusion; 9 Ritual and torture in organised abuse; Ritualistic abuse and deviant scripturalism; From object to abject: dehumanisation in ritualistic abuse; Rationalising ritual abuse: coercing victim consent for their own abuse

The use of torture to inscribe and trigger obedienceConclusion; 10 Sexual murder and reproductive harm: the outer limits of organised sexual abuse; Sexual murder; Reproductive harm and infanticide; Conclusion; Conclusion; Appendix: Research methodology; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

"A GlassHouse book."

"Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

0-203-08218-4

1-283-84548-2

1-136-17780-9

OCLC:

819380201