Professional perpetrators: Sex offenders who use their employment to target and sexually abuse the children with whom they work

Child Abuse Review

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 153-167

  Sullivan, Joe ^a   Beech, Anthony ^b  

^a The Lucy Faithfull Foundation   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Child sexual abuse; Institutional abuse; Professional perpetrator

Indexed keywords

EID: 85040406443     PISSN: 09529136     EISSN: 10990852     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/car.737     Document Type: Article

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