Understanding Child Sexual Abuse

SHERON BURNS Education Officer for Early Childhood, University of the West Indies, Trinidad and TobagoHAZEL DA BREO Legal Aid and Counselling Clinic in Grenada, GrenadaENA TROTMAN JEMMOTT, University of Huddersfield, UKLORITA JOSEPH School Guidance Counsellor at the University of the West Indies, Trinidad and TobagoPRIYA MAHARAJ Lecturer at the University of the West Indies, Trinidad and TobagoDOMINIC PASURA Research Fellow in the School of Human and Health Sciences at Huddersfield University, UKBETSY ANN LAMBERT PETERSON, Trinidad and Tobago Judicial Education Institute, Trinidad and TobagoLETNIE F. ROCK Head of the Department of Government, Sociology and Social Work at the University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago

• Introduction; L.Joseph PART I: CONTEXT, THEORY AND CARIBBEAN REALITIES IN TACKLING CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE The Nature of Paradise; P.Maharaj The Ontology and Social Construction of Childhood in the Caribbean; S.Burns Gendered Sexual Relations and Sexualised Gender Relations; E.Trotman Jemmott & P.Maharaj Crossing the Threshold: A Legal Perspective of Child Sexual Abuse in the Caribbean, with a focus on Trinidad and Tobago; B.Lambert Peterson Using our Brain: Understanding the Effects of Child Sexual Abuse; E.Trotman Jemmott Parental Abandonment of Children: Vulnerability to Sexual Abuse; H.Da Breo 'Pimping your Child': Commercial Sexual Exploitation and Transactional Child Sexual Abuse; A.Jones PART II: RESEARCH AND KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER Research on Child Sexual Abuse: Caribbean and International Perspectives; L.Rocke A Culturally-contexted Study of Perceptions, Attitudes and Opinions on Child Sexual Abuse; A.Jones & E.Trotman Jemmott Deconstructing Narratives of Child Sexual Abuse; A.Jones IMPACT: Interventions and Mitigations to Prevent the Abuse of Children – it's Time. A Public Health Oriented Systems Model for Change; D.Pasura, A.D.Jones & H.Da Breo Conclusion; A.Jones