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Masculinity as a site of pre-emptive intervention in the prevention of child sexual abuse

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Mr Mowat鈥檚 research sought to challenge dominant assumptions regarding paedophilia and child sex offending and open up the possibility for interventions that engage men before they offend against children.聽 The study revealed that there are blurred boundaries between media representations and psychological constructions聽of聽child sex offenders. 聽This has produced聽a dominant representation of child sex offenders聽as聽monstrous and deviant. 聽This powerful representation has obscured聽gendered social power relationships and the discourses of hegemonic masculinity that are implicated in child sex offending. The analysis of聽former聽offender''s聽narratives聽suggests potential points of pre-emptive intervention and suggests聽that addressing聽cultural聽assumptions of heteronormativity could mitigate sexually harmful constructions of masculinity.聽聽

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Associate Professor Leigh Coombes
Associate Professor Ross Flett