TY - JOUR PY - 2021// TI - Survivors' beliefs about the causes of sexual offending: an Australian study JO - Violence against women A1 - Richards, Kelly SP - ePub EP - ePub VL - ePub IS - ePub N2 - Policies designed to prevent sexual (re)offending are often proposed on behalf of survivors of sexual violence. However, no research has examined survivors' beliefs about the causes of sexual offending. This is a critical gap, because how individuals understand the causes of sexual offending has long been thought to inform their support for particular policy responses. This article presents findings from the first study to specifically examine survivors' views about the causes of sexual offending, based on interviews with 33 survivors from Australia. It demonstrates that survivors' beliefs are highly complex and multifaceted, and destabilizes the uniform survivor of governmental imagination.
Language: en
LA - en SN - 1077-8012 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1077801221998775 ID - ref1 ER -