CHILD-ABUSE AND NEGLECT - INFLUENCES OF QUALITATIVE RESEARCH AND CLINICAL-PRACTICE ON CHILD-CARE LEGISLATION AND POLICY

In a previous paper on research findings with adolescent sexual offend ers, formal and informal responses to offenders were discussed in term s of offenders' crystallization of foreclosed deviant social-sexual id entity. This paper, therefore seeks to modulate, with critical psychot herapeutic factors, legislative judicial social interpersonal, and psy chotherapeutic attitudes to offenders and victims alike. Chief among t hese is the twinship transference that, the authors argue, is the esse ntial antidote to secondary trauma in child protection.