Child Sexual Abuse and the Law

Abstract

I use the expression 'ask some questions' quite specifically as I do not feel able to do more than lay out some of the arguments and put forward a few suggestions. We are dealing with a very confused area of the law. Society must protect and be seen to be protecting young people from abuse, but policies are being hacked out in a haphazard way in response to individual crises. Worse than that, I fear there is a more sinister pattern emerging, which can be seen when the changes are looked at in the framework of all current proposals for change, such as those contained in the Criminal Justice Bill. In England there are at present two ways in which the law can become involved in matters to do with child abuse: namely civil and criminal.

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