Nadia Wager

Teesside University

This study aimed to fill a gap in the debate regarding the application of restorative justice conferencing to sexual offences. This gap is currently characterised by absence of views expressed by survivors of sexual violence (Wager, 2013). The debate has largely occurred in an ‘empirical vacuum’ (McGlynn et al., 2012) and without the necessary cons...

Purpose: This paper examines adult survivors’ of childhood sexual abuse (CSA) retrospective reflections on their motives for not disclosing their abuse. The aim was to identify factors that might facilitate early disclosure in order to both enhance the future safety of young people who have experienced sexual victimisation and to offer a means of r...

This report is presents the protocol and preliminary findings from an outcome evaluation study of the Hampshire and Thames Valley Circles’ Non-Offending Partner Programme. The aims of the programme are to inform, empower and support the non-offending partner of a person who has been convicted of a sexual offence against a child, and to assess the r...

Aim: This aim of this study was to assess the impact of offering victims choice in their level of engagement with restorative justice interventions. Consequently, this study compared the expected risk for reconviction, calculated using the Offender Group Reconviction Scale and actual reconviction rates for completers and non-completers of three dif...

It is proposed that traditional victimological perspectives tend to pathologise victims of gendered-violence and thus render the ‘choices’ they make irrational, if not delusional. The consequence has been the development of an essentialist solution to the problem of domestic violence; a solution that appears to be rejected by many victims. In order...

A systematic review of research exploring the impact of providing rape myth countering information to mock-jurors was conducted. The primary aim of the review was to inform the development of an educational intervention for jurors to reduce potential bias in their decision-making based on belief in prevalent rape myths. In total, the following 12 d...

This is an edited collection centralising on the policing of public protection. It covers Coercive Control, Honour Based Abuse and Forced Marriage, Female Genital Mutilation, Child Sexual Exploitation, Rape, Modern day slavery and human trafficking, Child Neglect, Child sexual abuse, Policing the unexpected deaths of children, Cybercrime against ol...

This article is the first qualitative systematic review of studies examining the barriers and facilitators to male sex offenders reintegration from prison or secure care into the community. A search of 16 electronic databases produced 14,218 potential sources, which, after screening, resulted in 79 articles for inclusion. Papers were included if th...

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Reports from 2016-2017 suggest that approximately 870 cases of non-familial child abduction (NFA) are recorded England and Wales per year. Yet, empirical knowledge of the victims, offenders, and offence characteristics is limited in comparison to other forms of child victimisation. Furthermore, much of the available knowledge is constrained by a la...

Online child sexual abuse encompasses a range of offenses including the accessing, downloading, sharing and creating of images of child sexual abuse, often referred to as Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM). CSAM consumption has increased exponentially, and the lockdowns implemented as a response to COVID-19 have exacerbated this problem. CSAM offen...

This study explored how people thought and talked about death/dying during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. The findings presented here are based on data collected for a larger study exploring the processes undertaken that allow individuals to actively think and openly talk about death and dying. Ten of the eleven interviews conducted durin...

Research indicates substantial overlap between child abuse and neglect (CAN), exposure to domestic violence and sibling abuse, with multiple victimisation experiences conferring greater risk for adverse mental health outcomes than does exposure to a single subtype. The application of latent class analysis (LCA) to child maltreatment has gained mome...

This study explored the prevalence of children’s exposure to adult-perpetrated domestic violence (DV) in Jamaica and investigated the contextual factors of the affected families and the well-being of exposed children. The study was a cross-sectional survey of 7,182 children aged 9 to 17 years, drawn from 20 primary and secondary schools. The sample...

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 th...

Background: Child abuse and neglect (CAN) is a major public health concern, but limited data are available on the occurrence, co-occurrence, and correlates of these phenomena outside Western societies. Objectives: The first aim of this study was to establish the prevalence of CAN across two settings (inside and outside the home) among children...

A systematic review of research assessing rape myth acceptance (RMA) interventions within institutional settings was conducted. The aim of this review was to inform the development of an educational intervention for jurors in rape trials that addresses rape myths, given previous evidence that RMA can affect decision-making and verdicts (Dinos et al...

New Beginnings is a holistic, person-centred service for adult survivors of child sexual exploitation (CSE), delivered in Oxford by Elmore Community Services and funded by Oxfordshire County Council. The service was introduced in 2016 in the wake of Operation Bullfinch which uncovered 300 people who had potentially been victims of CSE in Oxfordshir...

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This is a report on the findings from a survey of police officers and strategic leads that was submitted to the Centre for expertise on child sexual abuse

This scoping review examines all the strategies and tools used to disrupt child sexual abuse in England and Wales and examines our state of knowledge about their utility and efficacy. It also examines whether disruption in this context lives up to expectations - in that they are measures that are intelligence-led, used proactively and target the ac...

Background Evidence from attrition studies indicates that complainants who experience sexual assault on more than one occasion and by different perpetrators (i.e. sexual revictimization) are unlikely to have their cases progress through to prosecution. Purpose The aim of this systematic review was to ascertain what can be learned from experimental...

Abstract Background: Evidence from attrition studies indicates that complainants who experience sexual assault on more than one occasion and by different perpetrators (i.e. sexual revictimization) are unlikely to have their cases progress through to prosecution. Purpose: The aim of this systematic review was to ascertain what can be learned from ex...

The Coronavirus disease, also known as Covid-19, which is purported to have started in Wuhan, China, was declared a pandemic on 11th March 2020. Since then the world has come together for the trial and approval of vaccination. Meanwhile, the adopted approach to prevent and slow down the coronavirus is social distancing, handwashing, and use of face...

The Coronavirus disease, also known as Covid-19, which is purported to have started in Wuhan, China, was declared a pandemic on 11th March 2020. In the UK, the government, together with the National Health Service (NHS), have taken various approaches to prevent and slow down the spread of coronavirus. These included imposing a ‘lockdown’ of the cou...

Rapid Evidence Assessment

This study investigated whether attitudes towards a complainant of sexual assault are affected by the knowledge that the complainant had previously made a similar allegation. This was a 3 (previous allegation; none, child sexual assault or adult sexual assault) X 2 (whether the previous allegation was substantiated) X 2 (the implied mental health s...

Aim/Background: The purpose of the study was to examine the effectiveness of the Dynamic Risk Review (DRR), a quarterly-completed risk assessment profile based on 17 questions scored on a Likert scale (0-6) by volunteers who are working with Circles of Support and Accountability (CoSA) in the UK. Methods: The case files of 447 sex offenders (known...

This report was commissioned by the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse

The aim of this review was to investigate the ways in which online facilitated child sexual abuse (CSA) have been measured and to identify the sources that are available both nationally and internationally to assist in quantifying the scale of the problem.

This is the final report of the evaluation of the ITA service. The cases studies have been removed to preserve the anonymity of the service users. This reports includes the final file analysis, exploration of changes in NRM referrals associated with services for victims of modern slavery and interviews with clients, referrers and service providers.

This report provides a brief critical review of the ways in which national and global estimates of the extent of modern slavery have been calculated and offers a new model which can be used to calculate both regional and national estimates. One of the objectives in developing the model was to use a parsimonious method, which was based on direct ind...

In previous chapters we have looked at many different examples of mad or bad, exploring how people who are experiencing mental health issues or who commit criminal offences are classified and treated by formal medical and criminal justice systems. The focus of these chapters has tended to be on the treatment of people after a diagnoses or verdict,...

This chapter will explore a response to traumatic victimisation which has divided the opinions of psychologists at an exponential rate. We will be examining amnesia for memories of childhood sexual abuse and the potential to recover these memories in adulthood. Whilst this phenomenon is generally accepted in clinical circles, it is seen as highly c...

Purpose: This study assessed the effectiveness of the taught model of conflict management/resolution utilised by Bedfordshire Police to reduce conflict between officers and members of the public. Design: This was an observational study, using video footage from police body-worn cameras, of violent confrontations between officers and crime suspects....

This study explores the restorative justice potential for survivors of sexual violence volunteering for Circles of Support and Accountability (COSA). COSA is one organisation that works as part of a multidisciplinary team to manage high-risk, sex-offenders (core members) on their release from prison. COSA have always been considered as a restorativ...

The inquiry into the institutional response to child sexual abuse has arisen in part due to the inability of many professionals to recognise and acknowledge the claims made by those reporting what we would now term child sexual exploitation. Many victims who were able to reach out in attempt to seek help were either disbelieved or criminalised and...

This is a rapid needs assessment and process evaluation of the Circles South East's counselling service for victims of sexual violence

Evaluation report for Circles South East's programme for non-offending partners of convicted sex offenders.

This gives an overview of possible outcome measures that might be used to evaluate interventions for victims of crime.

It is proposed that traditional victimological perspectives tend to pathologise victims of gendered-violence and thus render the ‘choices’ they make irrational, if not delusional. The consequence has been the development of an essentialist solution to the problem of domestic violence; a solution that appears to be rejected by many victims. In order...

The preference for further developing positive victimology partly arises from dissatisfaction with existing conceptualisations of victimhood, which emerge from both traditional victimology and clinical psychology. Such perspectives, particularly in their discussions of victims of gendered-violence, which have sought to raise awareness of the extent...

With the growth in victim-requested restorative justice services there is increasing impetus to identify effective ways of assessing victims’ experiences of restorative justice interventions. Since continued funding typically rests on evidence from outcome as opposed to process evaluations, this might mean that appropriate outcome measures need to...

The aim of this paper is to consider the potential application of family group conferencing, which is a form of restorative justice, to cases of domestic violence. The discussion will draw on a positive victimological perspective (Ronel, 2012). The discussion is restricted to cases of (ex)intimate partner violence perpetrated by a male which target...

Contemplating survivorship in the context of sexual violence Clinical vs positive victimological perspectives (weakness and vulnerability vs strength and resilience) A salutogenic approach – post-traumatic growth and altuism born of adversity Volunteerism in the aftermath of the experience of extreme circumstances

This section of the book is all about the ways in which people’s experiences affect how they understand things, and how experiences impact on people’s understandings. In this chapter you will focus on ‘extreme circumstances’, particularly considering the ways in which experiencing these kinds of situations might affect individuals, and the differen...

The association between adenocarcinoma of the ethmoid sinuses and woodworkers was identified in the 1960s. Working conditions were poor, and epidemiological studies suggested the carcinogenic agent was hardwood dust created during furniture production. The objectives of this article were to describe the declining incidence of this disease in High W...

This study aimed to identify new treatment targets in order to develop more empirically informed initiatives to prevent sexual revictimization. A retrospective Web-based survey employing a mixed-methods design attracted a self-selecting sample of 481 community respondents, 183 of whom indicated a history of childhood sexual abuse. Seventy-four perc...

This study aimed to investigate the preparedness of adults to engage in child protection. There were two objectives: Firstly, to develop a psychometric measure to assess beliefs relating to the protection of children in relation to sexual abuse. Secondly, to identify possible barriers to efficient child protection and to explore possible difference...

Background: The applicability of restorative justice (RJ) to sexual offences is highly contested; with strong views being expressed in both support and opposition to the notion. However, there is a relative dearth of randomised-controlled studies investigating the experience and impact of RJ on victims of sexual violence. The aim of this scoping st...

This study investigated respondents' experiences of completing a retrospective web-based survey exploring sexual revictimization. The original survey provided a link to a separate mixed-methods survey assessing the impact of participation. Of the original 481 respondents, 234 completed this follow-up survey. Eighty percent were female and 52% repor...

The aim of this paper was to examine the responses made to adult child sexual abuse survivors’ disclosures of abuse made during their childhoods, with a view to ascertaining the barriers to receiving an appropriate, beneficial response. Methodology: This was a retrospective web-based survey of 481 community adults (men and women), 183 of whom were...

T his review study explores the experiences of survivors of sexual violence who engaged in a restorative justice (RJ) meeting with their assailant to ascertain whether the process contributes to, or further compounds, their recovery. This paper forms a small part of a more extensive scoping review employing Arksey and O'Malley's (2002) framework. T...

This study was an investigation of the additional risk conferred by the experience of psychogenic amnesia for memories of childhood sexual abuse (CSA) on the likelihood of becoming a victim of sexual assault in later life. A total of 210 community respondents completed a retrospective web-based trauma survey. The majority of respondents were female...

This paper has been inspired by the processes of preparing for ethical scrutiny and seeking ethical approval for a series of studies examining causal mechanisms that might facilitate sexual revictimisation. The focus here is on just four of the issues that arose in the context of the first study: a web-based survey. One of the aims of the survey is...

Background: The aim was to investigate the relationship between emotional workload factors and psychological well-being. Methodology: This was a correlational study employing an anonymous self-report, web-based survey. A sample of 269 self-selecting police personnel from a whole area force who were invited to participate finally took part in the st...

To explore the frequency with which children and young people participate in social activities with peers, when they are affected by Mucopolysaccharidosis I Hurler Disease (MPS IH) post bone marrow transplant (BMT). This was investigated in relation to patient age, and in comparison with a normative sample. Patient withdrawal, adaptive and social s...

To investigate the role played by employees' perceptions of their supervisors' interactional styles as a possible source of workplace stress that may be associated with increased morbidity and mortality rates from cardiovascular disorders in workers in the lower strata of organisational hierarchies. A controlled, quasi-experimental, field study of...

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