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Social Sciences, Volume 9, Issue 5

May 2020 - 28 articles

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Cover Story: Research has found that mandatory reporting laws have positive effects on identifying child sexual abuse. Yet, there is little analysis of the impact of reports of sexual abuse on child protection systems relative to other abuse types. This research analyzed data over seven years to compare reports of sexual and physical abuse in Victoria and Western Australia. Western Australia had mandatory reporting for sexual abuse, and Victoria had mandatory reporting for sexual and physical abuse. Reports of sexual abuse increased due to a new reporting duty and heightened public awareness. Victoria received nearly three times as many physical abuse reports as Western Australia. The relative systemic burden was clear in Victoria, with reports of physical abuse two and a half times higher than sexual abuse. Rates of children in reports, even at their peak, indicated sustainable levels for welfare agencies. View this paper.

Articles (28)

  • Review
  • Open Access
22 Citations
13,241 Views
16 Pages

Increased globalization has ushered in changes in diplomatic purposes and practices. As such, global health diplomacy (GHD) has become a growing field connecting the urgencies of global health and foreign affairs. More academics and policy-makers are...

  • Article
  • Open Access
197 Citations
32,009 Views
11 Pages

Covid-19 and Women’s Triple Burden: Vignettes from Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Vietnam and Australia

  • Helen Jaqueline McLaren,
  • Karen Rosalind Wong,
  • Kieu Nga Nguyen and
  • Komalee Nadeeka Damayanthi Mahamadachchi

During disease outbreaks, women endure additional burdens associated with paid and unpaid work, often without consideration or the alleviation of other life responsibilities. This paper draws on the concept of the triple burden in theorizing the gend...

  • Essay
  • Open Access
5 Citations
14,440 Views
11 Pages

Frozen 2 (2019) provided Disney with the opportunity to move past discomfort about the confluence of women’s sexuality and power in Queen Elsa portrayed in Frozen (2013). Yet in Frozen 2, Elsa remains romantically unattached, despite audience i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
7,122 Views
14 Pages

Stay or Leave Abusive Dating Relationships: Portuguese Victims’ Reasons and Barriers

  • Sónia Caridade,
  • Inês Pinheiro and
  • Maria Alzira Pimenta Dinis

The decision to stay or leave an abusive relationship is multifactorial and frequently involves a cyclic process involving several phases. This article presents a qualitative analysis regarding the reasons and barriers to stay or leave an abusive dat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
31,943 Views
19 Pages

This study aims to define the perspectives taken by single mothers when combining work and motherhood in a stressful work–life constellation. One of the challenges for single mothers after divorce is to find a work–life balance in their s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,868 Views
12 Pages

Heterodox Economy in the Neoliberal Education Age

  • Juan Agustín Franco Martínez and
  • Miguel Angel Garcia-Gordillo

Since the last global crisis, the critical debate on economy and the teaching of heterodox economy has resurfaced. To review the magnitude and pedagogical consequences for critical education in economics and finance is the objective of this paper, wh...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4,319 Views
14 Pages

This paper aims to understand the social-psychological dimension of the Normative Power Europe discourse using ingroup projection as a discursive/cognitive practice of othering. It takes issue with most poststructuralist studies that conduct analyses...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
6,259 Views
13 Pages

Limited research in the psychology literature has addressed the specifics of children’s future orientations. Using a thematic approach, the present study investigates children’s personal aspirations for their adult lives via a questionnai...

  • Editorial
  • Open Access
8 Citations
7,085 Views
9 Pages

This special issue explores underrepresented aspects of the political dimensions of global warming. It includes post- and decolonial perspectives on climate-related migration and conflict, intersectional approaches, and climate change politics as a n...

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