This article, based on an analysis of unstructured interviews, identifies that the emotional bond between survivors of child sexual abuse and the people who perpetrated the abuse against them is similar to that of the powerful bi-directional relationship central to Stockholm Syndrome as described by Graham Aspects of Stockholm Syndrome could be identified in the responses of adult survivors of child sexual abuse, which appeared to impact on their ability to criminally report offenders.
An emotional bond, which has enabled the sexual abuse of children, has served to protect the offender long after the abuse has ceased. The implications of Stockholm Syndrome could offer valuable insights to those working in the field of child sexual abuse.
Login to access the full chart related to this output. This page is provided by Altmetric. Altmetric Badge. Readers on mendeley Mendeley citeulike 2 CiteULike. You are seeing a free-to-access but limited selection of the activity Altmetric has collected about this research output.
Click here to find out more. View on publisher site Alert me about new mentions. The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 11 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled. The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 14 July Outputs of similar age from Journal of Child Sexual Abuse.
