Criminalising Institutional Failures to Prevent, Identify or React to Child Sexual Abuse

Crofts, Penny

doi:10.5204/ijcjsd.v6i3.421

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“…Case studies more frequently attributed employee silence to a fear of victimisation from bullying (e.g. Crofts 2017;Johnson 2008;Froud et al 2004) and material retaliation such as being fired (e.g. Beamish 2000; Guthrie and Shayo 2005).…”

Section: Speaking-up System and Bullyingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Causal and Corrective Organisational Culture: A Systematic Review of Case Studies of Institutional Failure

2020

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Organisational culture is assumed to be a key factor in large-scale and avoidable institutional failures (e.g. accidents, corruption). Whilst models such as “ethical culture” and “safety culture” have been used to explain such failures, minimal research has investigated their ability to do so, and a single and unified model of the role of culture in institutional failures is lacking. To address this, we systematically identified case study articles investigating the relationship between culture and institutional failures relating to ethics and risk management (n = 74). A content analysis of the cultural factors leading to failures found 23 common factors and a common sequential pattern. First, culture is described as causing practices that develop into institutional failure (e.g. poor prioritisation, ineffective management, inadequate training). Second, and usually sequentially related to causal culture, culture is also used to describe the problems of correction: how people, in most cases, had the opportunity to correct a problem and avert failure, but did not take appropriate action (e.g. listening and responding to employee concerns). It was established that most of the cultural factors identified in the case studies were consistent with survey-based models of safety culture and ethical culture. Failures of safety and ethics also largely involve the same causal and corrective factors of culture, although some aspects of culture more frequently precede certain outcome types (e.g. management not listening to warnings more commonly precedes a loss of human life). We propose that the distinction between causal and corrective culture can form the basis of a unified (combining both ethical and safety culture literatures) and generalisable model of organisational failure.

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Section: Speaking-up System and Bullyingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Causal and Corrective Organisational Culture: A Systematic Review of Case Studies of Institutional Failure

2020

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“…At the same time, the child physical abuse, the emergence of childhood sexual abuse and their seriousness are the best documented and investigated predictors of sexual victimization (Classen et al, 2005). This group of violence is also numerous, as the problem of children rape remains the most urgent and acute, and we share this opinion too because the children are the most vulnerable and least protected part of society (Anderson et al, 2017;Annitto, 2011;Barnert et al, 2016;Beech et al, 2012;Beier, 2016;Cole & Sprang, 2015;Crofts, 2017;Daly, 2014;Davis et al, 2012;Emetu, 2018;Filipas & Ullman, 2006;Fortier et al, 2009;Gibbs et al, 2015;Golding et al, 2018;Greenbaum & Crawford-Jakubiak, 2015;Greenbaum, 2014;Henry & Rowell, 2018;Hurrell, 2015;Jimenez et al, 2015;Leclerc et al, 2009;Lutnick, 2016;Papalia et al, 2017;Tal, Tal & Green, 2018;Varma et al, 2015).…”

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Application of the transformed-interview method in investigation of sexual crimes in Ukraine

Ivanchenko¹,

Safin²,

Тімченко³

et al. 2022

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The crime detection of sexual violence needs to be optimized and improved. This study aims to substantiate, elaborate, and apply in practice the method of a transformed interview (based on mathematical modeling) to obtain information about sexual violence. For the first time the transformed-interview method was used while studying the hidden (latent) victims of sexual violence who do not want to report a crime to law enforcement agencies because they do not want the fact of violence against them to be made public. Participated 2570 Ukrainian women of different social status, 16-35 years old. It was found that the increase of intermediaries during the information transmission reduces reliability of the information about crimes against the person’s sexual inviolability. While investigating such types of crimes the needed information can be obtained with a higher degree of reliability not from the victim, but from her closest surroundings. The transformed-interview method proved to be an effective tool to extract the information related to the behavior of both the offender and his victim. This method shows reliability and makes it possible to reduce the latency of most crimes in the situation of the victim’s refusal to testify at the re-trial investigation.

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“…In most cases, such crimes are hugely devastating thus, for both preventive and remedial measures; institutions must be legally held accountable for the criminal activities of their employees and associates (DBL, 2014). In the absence of this, crimes including child sexual abuse will be tough to eradicate concurring with: because in some jurisdictions emphasis is put more on the individuals rather than institutional failures to protect children against sexual abuse, the reporting of offences, may not yield the required dividend (Crofts, 2017).…”

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Child Sexual Abuse in Tourism and the Legal System: Lessons for Child Protection Professionals

Bah

2023

Int. j. adv. economics

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Almost everywhere around the globe children are subjected to maltreatment. Serious actions are required at all levels to end it with urgency. All children are entitled to full protection from all forms of abuse. This is reaffirmed by the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) in which all nations are obligated to protect children from all forms of abuse and promote the physical and psychological recovery and social reintegration of sexual abuse survivors. The objective of the review was to examine the gaps in child abuse prevention legal systems in order to share knowledge to better protect the children. Thus, a systematic review of the literatures using data from different sources was actuated. Different search engines were used to search for these articles. Only peer-reviewed scholarly publications published after 2000 were selected except extracts perceived to be critical. The review demonstrates that the protection of children against abuse through the existing legal systems is constrained by inadequacy of legislations, poor enforcement mechanisms, poverty and corruption, lack of rehabilitation programmes, negative attitudes, ineffective judiciary system, lack of training, inadequate multidisciplinary collaboration, lack of child friendly courts, threatening defense lawyers, lengthy and intimidating court procedures, inconsistent age of consent, lack of mandatory reporting of abuse, non-recognition of institutional crime, wee statute of limitation, insufficient funding, discriminatory laws, lack of cooperation and support, lack of birth registration; and lack of national sex offenders register. To conclude if the safety of the children is to be ensured, the challenges highlighted in the legal system must be addressed with urgency. Key words: Child Abuse, Legislations, Child Friendly, Courts, System.

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Criminalising Institutional Failures to Prevent, Identify or React to Child Sexual Abuse

Cited by 6 publications

References 19 publications

Causal and Corrective Organisational Culture: A Systematic Review of Case Studies of Institutional Failure

Causal and Corrective Organisational Culture: A Systematic Review of Case Studies of Institutional Failure

Application of the transformed-interview method in investigation of sexual crimes in Ukraine

Child Sexual Abuse in Tourism and the Legal System: Lessons for Child Protection Professionals

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