Problems in Defining and Investigating Child Sexual Abuse

Essay from the year 1997 in the subject Law - Miscellaneous, grade: 68/100 P., Lancaster University (Law Department), course: LLM 307: History of Women, Gender and the Legal Order, language: English, abstract: This essay focuses on the sociological as well as on the legal approach of child abuse in search for a definition. The sociological approach could help to understand the multidimensionality and complexity of the topic in the first instance. More than ever the legal perspective of child abuse can reveal what legal mechanism constitute the criminalisation of sexual offences in Great Britain.