Hi there,

We are undertaking a study that investigates how people's perceptions towards Child Sexual Assault (CSA) influences conviction outcomes.

Only 17% of CSA disclosures result in conviction. It is surprising that despite the prevalence of the crime, CSA has such a low prosecution rate.

We are seeking Australian citizens over the age of 18 to undertake an anonymous online survey. It only takes 20 minutes to complete!

Please keep in mind the sensitive nature of this topic may be confronting.

Click on the link below to find out more and give informed consent:
http://www.deakin.edu.au/psychology/research/court_case_evaluation

Thank you in advance.
Deakin University - Ethics approval (2013-168)

A media provides few details on court cases. How could anyone determine whether accused people are insane or perfectly sane. As the problem is most probably a psychological issue. Media shouldn't be persuading audiences by showing accused walking out side courthouses looking annoyed.

I could suggest bad schooling abuse not only persuades children towards sports. A number of children feel pleasure in being with other children. Memories of getting reactions out of young children turn these same people on, remembering child pleasures at receiving reactions from other children. Similar ideas to bulling for the sake of getting a reaction. don't blame god... sorry blame priests who blame god.

The subject of decades old sexual abuse is no more than appealing to emotional people's Neanderthal reactions.

The media are not correctly informing citizens of worthy news.

Dear Psychresearch,

I seem to have a problem getting past question 4
on your survey. The survey doesn't move down. I've
tried to access the other questions with no luck.
The survey reverts back to the beginning of the
survey and I have to start again. The same thing
keeps happening over and over again. What am I doing wrong?

Hi Foxy,

Thanks for your interest in the survey!

Unfortunately I am not sure what is going on - have you tried another browser? It might be related to pop-ups or settings or something.. I will have a look and see what is going on at our end.

Thanks

I would suggest the good old 'mental illness card' plays a big part.

Mental illness is the 'cop out' of the modern era. A 'get out of gaol free card' in far too many cases.

Of cause the other huge influencing problem is trial by media.

Some questions are tendentious, others presume the guilt of James. There should be the possibility of reviewing the court proceedings, I needed to read James testimony again, but was unable to, So I started from the beginning, but that page didn't come up, it went straight from the cross examination of the police woman to the questions. Some questions were impossible to answer unless I considered James to be guilty. I hope those who composed the questionnaire are not intending to become police prosecutors.