ABSTRACT

Like in many countries, the Australian Government has conducted an inquiry into child sexual abuse that occurred in institutional settings (The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse). Drawing on the findings from a qualitative study commissioned by the Royal Commission, this paper explores the perceptions of victim/survivors¹¹ The term ‘victim’ is used within the criminal justice system and the term ‘survivor’ can be used as to denote recovery and empowerment, so we use them interchangeably throughout. of the ways in which institutions (or individuals within them) responded supportively when sexual abuse was reported. While researchers and inquiries have reported on inadequacy of institutional responses, this paper addresses a research gap by investigating responses that victims/survivors perceived as helpful, while mindful of the overwhelmingly negative nature of their experiences. The paper contributes to the literature on institutional responses to child sexual abuse methodologically – by reporting on the challenges of a study of this type – and theoretically, by proposing a framework indicating how different helpful elements of an institutional response to child sexual abuse relate to each other in the victim/survivors’ experiences. The findings are relevant for research on best practice in institutional responses to child sexual abuse.

摘要

与许多国家一样，澳大利亚政府对发生在机构环境中的儿童性虐待进行了调查（皇家委员会对儿童性虐待的机构反应）。根据皇家委员会委托进行的一项定性研究的结果，本文探讨了受害者/幸存者的看法¹¹ “受害者”一词在刑事司法系统中使用，而“幸存者”一词可用于表示康复和赋权，因此我们自始至终交替使用它们。当报告性虐待时，机构（或其中的个人）的支持方式。虽然研究人员和调查报告了机构反应的不足，但本文通过调查受害者/幸存者认为有帮助的反应来解决研究空白，同时注意他们经历的压倒性负面性质。该论文从方法论上对有关机构应对儿童性虐待的文献做出了贡献——报告了此类研究的挑战——并在理论上提出了一个框架，表明机构对儿童性虐待的反应的不同有用要素如何与每个因素相关。其他在受害者/幸存者的经历中。这些发现与机构应对儿童性虐待的最佳实践研究相关。