Other Resources - CSAReps – Investigating Fictional Representations of Child Sexual Abuse in Contemporary Culture: Myths and Understanding

We are not the only research project who are working within or around the issue of Child Sexual Abuse, and our work is informed and inspired by the output of other researchers and organizations who we often collaborate with. Their outputs take the form of reports, resources, blogs, podcasts.

Here we hope to showcase a selection of the work we found useful.

Community Health Practitioners and Child Sexual Abuse in the Family, 1970s-2010s

Dr. Ruth Beecher, 2025 (Book)

Drawing on archival research and newly gathered in-depth oral history interviews, the monograph argues that expectations placed upon community-based doctors, nurses and mental health staff since the 1980s in relation to predicting and preventing the sexual abuse of children by abusers they know are incongruous to the cultural, social and structural barriers that prevent its fulfilment.

QAnon and cultural spectacles of child sexual exploitation

Professor Michael Salter, May 2021 (Blogpost)

This paper frames QAnon as the latest example of the cultural ‘spectacularisation’ of child sexual exploitation. It argues that persistent conspiracy theories have delegitimised journalistic and academic inquiry into child sexual exploitation, and that QAnon is the latest iteration of epistemic failures to constitute allegations of child sexual exploitation as meaningful and actionable.

Irish Attitudes to Tackling Child Sexual Abuse. A Whole of Society Approach

Dr. Karen Hand, May 2025 (Report)

This is a Landmark Report into Irish Attitudes in Tackling Child Sexual Abuse. It combines the results from a literature review, interviews with experts including victim/survivors and legal and judiciary workers, and public polling. From One in Four: “The research reveals not only the overwhelming recognition of child sexual abuse as a crisis in Irish society, but also the barriers that have prevented affective action in Ireland”

A Vision To Zero

A Roadmap to Ending Childhood Sexual Violence, January 2025 (To Zero Report)

This roadmap came as a result of global collaboration to identify and understand cultural and governance barriers to ending childhood sexual violence, and on actions that can be taken to remove those barriers.

What is triggering really? Possible parallels between eating disorders and child sexual abuse

Emily T. Troscianko, August 2021 (Blogpost)

This paper examines similarities and differences between triggering in eating disorders (EDs) and sexual trauma, two of the most frequent contexts in which the term tends to get used, and the textual features which may incur this response.

Sexual Violence Survey

Central Statistics Office Ireland, 2022 (Report)

This was the second large-scale comprehensive investigation into the lifetime experience of sexual violence as well as attiudes to sexual violence in the Republic of Ireland. It comes after the first SAVI report (2001) and SAVI Revisited (2005)