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Understanding Child Sexual Abuse

Perspectives from the Caribbean

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  • © 2013

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Editors:
  1. Adele D. Jones

    1. University of Huddersfield, UK

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Lorita Joseph
      Pages 1-5

  3. Context, Theory and Caribbean Realities in Tackling Child Sexual Abuse

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 7-7
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    2. The Nature of Paradise

      • Priya E. Maharaj
      Pages 9-25

    3. The Ontology and Social Construction of Childhood in the Caribbean

      • Sheron C. Burns
      Pages 26-37

    4. Gendered Sexual Relations and Sexualized Gender Relations

      • Ena Trotman Jemmott, Priya E. Maharaj
      Pages 38-50

    5. A Legal Perspective of Child Sexual Abuse in the Caribbean, with a Focus on Trinidad and Tobago

      • Betsy Ann Lambert Peterson
      Pages 51-75

    6. Using Our Brain: Understanding the Effects of Child Sexual Abuse

      • Ena Trotman Jemmott
      Pages 76-93

    7. Parental Abandonment of Children: Vulnerability to Sexual Abuse

      • Hazel Da Breo
      Pages 94-112

    8. ‘Pimping Your Child’: Commercial Sexual Exploitation and Transactional Child Sexual Abuse

      • Adele D. Jones
      Pages 113-142

  5. Conclusion

    1. Conclusion

      • Adele D. Jones
      Pages 263-270

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 271-282
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About this book

This book is the first comprehensive study of child sexual abuse in the Caribbean, exploring issues such as the ontology of childhood, links between slavery, colonialism and present-day gender-based violence, the impact of child sexual abuse on the brain and child protection after natural disasters.

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  • University of Huddersfield, UK

    Adele D. Jones

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SHERON BURNS Education Officer for Early Childhood, University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago HAZEL DA BREO Legal Aid and Counselling Clinic in Grenada, Grenada ENA TROTMAN JEMMOTT, University of Huddersfield, UK LORITA JOSEPH School Guidance Counsellor at the University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago PRIYA MAHARAJ Lecturer at the University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago DOMINIC PASURA Research Fellow in the School of Human and Health Sciences at Huddersfield University, UK BETSY ANN LAMBERT PETERSON, Trinidad and Tobago Judicial Education Institute, Trinidad and Tobago LETNIE F. ROCK Head of the Department of Government, Sociology and Social Work at the University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago

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