Further reading — non-legal
[7-9500] Further reading
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The following books and chapters are also recommended as further reading. The Judicial Commission has not reproduced these within the Sexual Assault Trials Handbook.
The dynamics of child sexual abuse
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B Mathews et al, “Child sexual abuse by different classes and types of perpetrator: prevalence and trends from an Australian national survey” (2024) 147 Child Abuse & Neglect.
Child sexual abuse and the criminal law
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J Cashmore, “Child witnesses” in L Young, MA Kenny and G Monahan (eds), Children and the law in Australia, 2nd edn, LexisNexis, 2017, pp 575–580.
Investigation and interviewing children in child sexual abuse cases
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S Brubacheret al, “An overview of best practice investigative interviewing of child witnesses of sexual assault” in I Bryce and W Petherick (eds), Child sexual abuse: forensic issues in evidence, impact, and management, Elsevier Academic Press, 2020, pp 445–466 (Ch 22).
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M Lamb, L Malloy and D La Rooy, “Setting realistic expectations: developmental characteristics, capacities and limitations” in M Lamb et al (eds), Children’s testimony: a handbook of psychological research and forensic practice, John Wiley & Sons, 2011.
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N Westera, M Powell, R Milne and J Goodman-Delahunty, “Police interviewing of sexual assault victims: current organizational responses and recommendations for improvement” in R Bull and I Blandon-Gitlin (eds), The Routledge international handbook of legal and investigative psychology, Routledge, 2020, pp 182–196.
Challenges facing child witnesses: special measures, witness assistance and intermediaries
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J Goodman-Delahunty, N Martschuk, M Powell, N Westera, “Prosecutorial discretion about special measure use in Australian cases of child sexual abuse” in P Stenning and V Colvin (eds), The evolving role of the prosecutor, internationally and domestically, Routledge, 2019, pp 169–187.
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A Pichler, J Goodman-Delahunty, S Sharman and N Westera, “A review of the use of special measures for complainants’ evidence at trial” in I Bryce and W Petherick (eds), Child sexual abuse: forensic issues in evidence, impact, and management, Elsevier Academic Press, 2020, pp 467–518 (Ch 23).Challenges facing child witnesses: special measures, witness assistance and intermediaries.
First Nations women and children
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M Guggisberg, “Aboriginal women’s experiences with intimate partner sexual violence and the dangerous lives they live as a result of victimization” (2019) 28(2) Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment & Trauma 186.
Female offenders
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C Weinsheimer et al, “The unusual suspects: female versus male accused in child sexual abuse cases” (2017) 72 Child Abuse & Neglect 446–455.
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G McIvor, “Female sex offenders” in T Sanders (ed), The Oxford handbook of sex offences and sex offenders, Oxford University Press, 2017, p 199.
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A J Darlng and LS Christensen, “Female child sex offenders” in I Bryce and W Petherick, Child sexual abuse: forensic issues in evidence, impact and management, Academic Press, Elsevier, 2020, p 119.
Juvenile sex offenders
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C Bijleveld, C van den Berg, and J Hendriks, “The juvenile sex offender: criminal careers and recidivism risk” in T Sanders (ed), The Oxford Handbook of Sex Offences and Sex Offenders, Oxford University Press, 2017, p 220.
Online exploitation
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M Seto, Internet sex offenders, American Psychological Association, 2013, Ch 6 (“The connection between online and contact offending“).
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K Babchishin et al, “Online child pornography offenders are different: a meta-analysis of the characteristics of online and offline sex offenders against children” (2015) 44 Archives of Sexual Behavior 45.
Challenges in investigation and prosecution of historical child sex offences
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K Shead, “Responding to historical child sexual abuse: a prosecution perspective on current challenges and future directions” (2014) 26(1) Current Issues in Criminal Justice 55.
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D Connolly, P Coburn and K Chong, “Twenty-six years prosecuting historic child sexual abuse cases: has anything changed?” (2017) 23(2) Psychology, Public Policy, and Law 166–177.