- Authors: Sinéad Ring, Kate Gleeson and Kim Stevenson
- Publisher: Routledge
- ISBN: 9781138605350
- RRP: £120 (hardback); £36.99 (eBook)
As this book observes at the outset, adults seeking justice for sexual abuse they suffered as children is ‘one of the most important social, political and legal phenomena of the 21st century’. Since the 1980s, many Western countries have seen wide-ranging revelations of the past sexual abuse of children in both family and institutional settings. In England and Wales, the Jimmy Savile case in 2012 set off a tidal wave of disclosures including in relation to persons of prominence and led to the establishment of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA), which began in 2014 and delivered its final report in October 2022. Other jurisdictions have experienced similar revelations. In response, survivors of abuse have demanded justice in the form of criminal prosecutions,
