Cover; Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Part I: Context, Theory and Caribbean Realities in Tackling Child Sexual Abuse; 1 The Nature of Paradise; 2 The Ontology and Social Construction of Childhood in the Caribbean; 3 Gendered Sexual Relations and Sexualized Gender Relations; 4 A Legal Perspective of Child Sexual Abuse in the Caribbean, with a focus on Trinidad and Tobago; 5 Using Our Brain: Understanding the Effects of Child Sexual Abuse; 6 Parental Abandonment of Children: Vulnerability to Sexual Abuse
7 'Pimping Your Child': Commercial Sexual Exploitation and Transactional Child Sexual AbusePart II: Research and Knowledge Transfer; 8 Research on Child Sexual Abuse: Caribbean and International Perspectives; 9 A Culturally Contexted Study of Perceptions, Attitudes and Opinions on Child Sexual Abuse; 10 Deconstructing Narratives of Child Sexual Abuse; 11 IMPACT: Interventions and Mitigations to Prevent the Abuse of Children -- It's Time -- A Public Health Oriented Systems Model for Change; Conclusion; Index
Summary
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
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index
