Stop It Now! is a website created to help prevent child sexual abuse. It has an online help center (Stop It Now! Helpline) and a helpline phone service (1-888-PREVENT). This website is open to all those concerned with child sexual abuse: victims, families, professionals and perpetrators. It answers questions confidentially, gives information and resources and produces documentation that can be downloaded or ordered for a minimal fee. Its vision is that child sexual abuse is preventable but that to do so adults need to be well informed about all the aspects involved in child sexual abuse. For this reason it creates fact-sheets. It encourages perpetrators to become accountable for their actions but also states that perpetrators need specialized and humane rehabilitation programs to stop abusing and will refer them to resources that will help them.
http://www.stopitnow.com/
Rose Marie.
With some of the information that we gathered from our interview for the research project in Reentering society or the workplace, we found out that 90% of the perpetrators, although not all have committed sexual crimes involving children,have been abused in their past. I thought that was very interesting and pertinent to the suject
ReplyDeleteI really like this blog because it gives us information and ressources we could look at facing this problematic. I have never thought about looking to the needs and caracteristics of perptuators. This really made me reflect about this and I think that we mostly point to them, but never go beyond that. It is important to go look beyond this to undertand better all the world surrounding this problematic.
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