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Child Sexual Abuse in the Anglican Church of Australia

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, September 2012
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Title
Child Sexual Abuse in the Anglican Church of Australia
Published in
Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, September 2012
DOI 10.1080/10538712.2012.689424
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Authors

Patrick N. Parkinson, R. Kim Oates, Amanda A. Jayakody

Abstract

This article reports on a retrospective study of cases of child sexual abuse complaints made against clergy, other employed pastoral staff, and volunteers in the Anglican Church of Australia between 1990 and 2008. There were 191 allegations of sexual abuse made by 180 complainants against 135 individuals. Twenty-seven of those 135 had more than one complaint made against them. Three-quarters of all complainants were male. The most likely explanation for the large proportion of abused males is that the church gives many more opportunities for abusers to be alone with boys than with girls. Prevention strategies need to focus on reducing the opportunities for abuse to occur as well strategies concerning the recruitment of professional staff and volunteers.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 1 2%
Unknown 48 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 9 18%
Researcher 7 14%
Student > Master 6 12%
Student > Doctoral Student 5 10%
Student > Bachelor 4 8%
Other 6 12%
Unknown 12 24%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 14 29%
Psychology 13 27%
Arts and Humanities 2 4%
Design 2 4%
Business, Management and Accounting 1 2%
Other 2 4%
Unknown 15 31%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 5. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 19 October 2019.
All research outputs
#6,914,810
of 25,390,203 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Child Sexual Abuse
#204
of 598 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#49,311
of 185,653 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Child Sexual Abuse
#4
of 6 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,390,203 research outputs across all sources so far. This one has received more attention than most of these and is in the 72nd percentile.
So far Altmetric has tracked 598 research outputs from this source. They typically receive more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 9.0. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 65% of its peers.
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