Representations Of Child Sexual Abuse In Jamaica

Author : Tatyana Karpenko-Seccombe,Kenisha Nelson,Christine Fray,Roxanne Harvey,Karyl Powell-Booth,Adele Jones,Nadia Wager ,Xiaomin Sheng
Publisher : MDPI
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783036524672

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Representations of Child Sexual Abuse in Jamaica by Tatyana Karpenko-Seccombe,Kenisha Nelson,Christine Fray,Roxanne Harvey,Karyl Powell-Booth,Adele Jones,Nadia Wager ,Xiaomin Sheng Pdf

News media shape public opinion on social issues such as child sexual abuse (CSA), using particular language to foreground, marginalize or legitimize certain viewpoints. Given the prevalence of CSA and the impact of violence against children in Jamaica, there is a need to examine the representation of children and their experience of violence in the news media, which remain the main source of information about such abuse for much of the population. The study aims to analyze accounts of CSA in Jamaican newspapers in order to show how different representations impact public understanding of CSA. This study offers a new perspective around child abuse by using an eight-million word corpus from articles over a three-year period (2018- 2020). The study argues that media reports often fail to conceptualise and represent accurately children who have experienced abuse. Representations of children are generic, their experiences often reduced to statistical summaries. Corpus analysis uncovered the use of terms which normalize sexual abuse. From the reader’s perspective, there was little emotional connection to the child or the child’s experience. The newspapers rarely report first-hand survivors’ experience of abuse, depriving these children of a voice. Instead, a marked preference is given to institutional voices. An issue of concern is a tendency to sensationalism with disproportionate attention given to cases involving celebrities. By exposing these problems, the authors hope that news media in Jamaica can play a more positive role in heightening awareness around child abuse and allowing the voices of victims/ survivors to be heard.

Author : Tatyana Karpenko-Seccombe,Kenisha Nelson,Christine Fray,Roxanne Harvey,Karyl Powell-Booth,Adele Jones,Nadia Wager,Xiaomin Sheng
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3036524665

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Representations of Child Sexual Abuse in Jamaica by Tatyana Karpenko-Seccombe,Kenisha Nelson,Christine Fray,Roxanne Harvey,Karyl Powell-Booth,Adele Jones,Nadia Wager,Xiaomin Sheng Pdf

News media shape public opinion on social issues such as child sexual abuse (CSA), using particular language to foreground, marginalize or legitimize certain viewpoints. Given the prevalence of CSA and the impact of violence against children in Jamaica, there is a need to examine the representation of children and their experience of violence in the news media, which remain the main source of information about such abuse for much of the population. The study aims to analyze accounts of CSA in Jamaican newspapers in order to show how different representations impact public understanding of CSA. This study offers a new perspective around child abuse by using an eight-million word corpus from articles over a three-year period (2018- 2020). The study argues that media reports often fail to conceptualise and represent accurately children who have experienced abuse. Representations of children are generic, their experiences often reduced to statistical summaries. Corpus analysis uncovered the use of terms which normalize sexual abuse. From the reader's perspective, there was little emotional connection to the child or the child's experience. The newspapers rarely report first-hand survivors' experience of abuse, depriving these children of a voice. Instead, a marked preference is given to institutional voices. An issue of concern is a tendency to sensationalism with disproportionate attention given to cases involving celebrities. By exposing these problems, the authors hope that news media in Jamaica can play a more positive role in heightening awareness around child abuse and allowing the voices of victims/ survivors to be heard.

Author : A. Jones,E. Jemmott,P. Maharaj,H. Breo
Publisher : Springer
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137377661

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An Integrated Systems Model for Preventing Child Sexual Abuse by A. Jones,E. Jemmott,P. Maharaj,H. Breo Pdf

This book sets out an integrated systems model which utilizes a public health approach and 'whole of society' philosophy for preventing and responding to child sexual abuse. It guides those engaged in policy, practice and planning concerning gender based violence and child abuse towards a more systemic approach to tackling these problems.

Author : O'Brien Dennis
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Boys sexual abuse victims
ISBN : 9780595341399

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The Cries of Men by O'Brien Dennis Pdf

The Cries of Men tell the candid and true personal accounts of rape and sexual abuse from the voices of young Jamaican men. The Cries of Men shares the candid and true personal account of rape and sexual abuse from the voices of young Jamaican men. By providing an in-depth look into their secret lives, author O'Brien Dennis demonstrates how one act of sexual violence can have a devastating effect on adult survivors. The Cries of Men takes a virgin journey of homophobia in the realm of Jamaica's social fabric. Dennis reveals the powerful and intriguing stories of Jamaican male sexual abuse survivors, but also divulges unknown facts about Jamaican society- including the concept that homosexuality is an evil act, punishable by imprisonment of up to ten years of hard labor. Yet each week in Jamaica, there are over fifteen reported cases of sexual abuse of young men and boys, many more cases go unreported because men fear for their lives if they disclose the abuse. Dennis also provides a list of resources to assist in recovering from sexual abuse. The cries of men have been kept silent far too long in Jamaica. Dennis will inspire you with his own personal story of survival and will teach you that through the truth, you can create your own happiness.

Author : A. Jones
Publisher : Springer
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137020055

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Understanding Child Sexual Abuse by A. Jones Pdf

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.

Author : Claudia Bernard
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : UOM:39015054267136

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Constructing Lived Experiences by Claudia Bernard Pdf

Employing a black feminist standpoint, Claudia Bernard offers an in-depth study of black mothers' responses to the abuse of their children and of the factors which shape their reactions and help-seeking behaviour.

Author : Adele D. Jones,Ena Trotman Jemmott,Hazel Da Breo,Priya Maharaj
Publisher : Springer
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137377692

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Treating Child Sexual Abuse in Family, Group and Clinical Settings by Adele D. Jones,Ena Trotman Jemmott,Hazel Da Breo,Priya Maharaj Pdf

Presenting real-life case studies of child sexual abuse in the Caribbean as a basis for discussing interventions and models of practice that are relevant for a wide range of cultural and social settings, this multi-disciplinary text will be of interest to scholars, professionals and practitioners alike. Contributors to this volume demonstrate how sexual abuse is never just a problem of the individual: structures of inequality and the intersection of the factors they give rise to help to explain why some children are more at risk of abuse than others. Furthermore, the sub-systems in which lives are lived can compound risk and vulnerability or alternatively, can be sources of support and change. This book draws on these ideas to discuss practice across a range of service users: children, adolescent girls, teenage mothers, children with learning disabilities, fathers, mothers, women who abuse, juvenile sex offenders and children in residential care. p>

Author : Julia C. Davidson
Publisher : Routledge Cavendish
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS
ISBN : 1904385680

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Child Sexual Abuse by Julia C. Davidson Pdf

Child Sexual Abuse critically evaluates the development of policy and legislative measures to control sex offenders. The last fifteen years has seen increasing concern on the part of the government, criminal justice agencies, the media and the public, regarding child sexual abuse. This concern has been prompted by a series of events including cases inviting media attention and involving the abduction, sexual abuse and murder of young children. The response to this wave of child sexual abuse revelation has been to introduce increasingly punitive legislation regarding the punishment and control of sex offenders (sex offenders are the only group of offenders in British legal history to have their own act), both in custody and in the community. But this response, it is argued here, has developed in a reactionary way to media and public anxiety regarding the punishment and control of sex offenders (who have abused children) and the perceived threat of such offenders in the community.

Author : Nicole Foga
Publisher : Kluwer Law International B.V.
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2022-10-20
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789403511467

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Information Technology Law in Jamaica by Nicole Foga Pdf

Derived from the renowned multi-volume International Encyclopaedia of Laws, this practical guide to information technology law – the law affecting information and communication technology (ICT) – in Jamaica covers every aspect of the subject, including the regulation of digital markets, intellectual property rights in the digital context, relevant competition rules, drafting and negotiating ICT-related contracts, electronic transactions, and cybercrime. Lawyers who handle transnational matters will appreciate the detailed explanation of specific characteristics of practice and procedure. Following a general introduction, the monograph assembles its information and guidance in six main areas of practice: (1) the regulatory framework of digital markets, including legal aspects of standardization, international private law applied to the online context, telecommunications law, regulation of audio-visual services and online commercial platforms; (2) online public services including e-government, e-health and online voting; (3) contract law with regard to software, hardware, networks and related services, with special attention to case law in this area, rules with regard to electronic evidence, regulation of electronic signatures, online financial services and electronic commerce; (4) software protection, legal protection of databases or chips, and other intellectual property matters; (5) the legal framework regarding cybersecurity and (6) the application of criminal procedure and substantive criminal law in the area of cybercrime. Its succinct yet scholarly nature, as well as the practical quality of the information it provides, make this monograph a valuable time-saving tool for business and legal professionals alike. Lawyers representing parties with interests in Jamaica will welcome this very useful guide, and academics and researchers will appreciate its value in the study of comparative law in this relatively new and challenging field.

Author : Doel Mukherjee
Publisher : Gyan Books
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 8178354063

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Women and Urban Crimes by Doel Mukherjee Pdf

The book deals with the magnitude of crimes against women in the developed and the developing World context. Through two empirical case studies the spatial context of crime has been explained, especially how socia-economic parameters and the environment can play a role to promote crime and disorder in a city. Crime remedy is through good legislation. NGO's working on women's issues, the government while making policies and the media need to find ways to strengthen legislation to project the vulnerable women.

Author : Carine M. Mardorossian
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813566047

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Framing the Rape Victim by Carine M. Mardorossian Pdf

In recent years, members of legal, law enforcement, media and academic circles have portrayed rape as a special kind of crime distinct from other forms of violence. In Framing the Rape Victim, Carine M. Mardorossian argues that this differential treatment of rape has exacerbated the ghettoizing of sexual violence along gendered lines and has repeatedly led to women’s being accused of triggering, if not causing, rape through immodest behavior, comportment, passivity, or weakness. Contesting the notion that rape is the result of deviant behaviors of victims or perpetrators, Mardorossian argues that rape saturates our culture and defines masculinity’s relation to femininity, both of which are structural positions rather than biologically derived ones. Using diverse examples throughout, Mardorossian draws from Hollywood film and popular culture to contemporary women’s fiction and hospitalized birth emphasizing that the position of dominant masculinity can be occupied by men, women, or institutions, while structural femininity is a position that may define and subordinate men, minorities, and other marginalized groups just as effectively as it does women. Highlighting the legacies of the politically correct debates of the 1990s and the terrorist attacks of 9/11, the book illustrates how the framing of the term “victim” has played a fundamental role in constructing notions of agency that valorize autonomy and support exclusionary, especially masculine, models of American selfhood. The gendering of rape, including by well-meaning, sometimes feminist, voices that claim to have victims’ best interests at heart, ultimately obscures its true role in our culture. Both a critical analysis and a call to action, Framing the Rape Victim shows that rape is not a special interest issue that pertains just to women but a pervasive one that affects our society as a whole.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:271741547

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Child Sexual Abuse by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : World Health Organization
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-31
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789240004191

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Global status report on preventing violence against children 2020 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Tatyana Karpenko-Seccombe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780429594724

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Academic Writing with Corpora by Tatyana Karpenko-Seccombe Pdf

Academic Writing with Corpora offers a step-by-step accessible guide to using concordancers and aims to help introduce data-driven learning into the academic English classroom. Addressing the challenges faced by EAP teachers when explaining to their students how to write 'naturally', this book provides a solution to the problem by placing an emphasis on learning from expert and proficient writing. In doing so, it: takes a highly practical approach; uses Lextutor, an easy-to-use, open access concordancer, whilst introducing students to tools, such as SkELL, MICUSP and BNC-English Corpora; fosters autonomous learning by demonstrating how to solve everyday difficulties in word choice and grammar; helps teachers to use corpora in teaching proficient writing and helps students to improve their academic writing by learning from the best examples in their field; guides students towards better awareness of the communicative side of academic writing. This book forms essential reading for all students on academic writing and EAP courses or who wish to improve their writing.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 834 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Special education
ISBN : UOM:39015077229295

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Exceptional Child Education Resources by Anonim Pdf