‘Cold feet’: The attrition of historic child sexual abuse cases reported to the police in a Northern Canadian Territory

White Paper on Forensic Child Interviewing: Research-based recommendations by the European Association of Psychology and Law

“…Culture-specific barriers may also hinder children from coming forward about their experiences of maltreatment, including taboos surrounding sex and for instance, an emphasis on virginity or of sexuality being a forbidden or frowned upon topic, and this may increase the reluctance of children to disclose their experiences (Chenier et al, 2021;Fontes & Plummer, 2010Gilligan & Akhtar, 2006;Paine & Hansen, 2002;; see also Collin-Vézina et al, 2009;Xie et al, 2017). Culture may also have an impact on the child's experiences of shame or other negative emotions, possibly implying a need for extended rapport building (Benuto & Garrick, 2016;Danby et al, 2021; see also Tavkar & Hansen, 2011).…”