ABSTRACT
This chapter draws on our work at the Child and Woman Abuse Studies Unit at the University of North London over the last eight years. During that time we have conducted fourteen larger and smaller scale studies on various aspects of child and woman abuse.1 This chapter draws on three in particular: a prevalence study of sexual abuse (Kelly, Regan and Burton 1991); a study of the impact and meaning of sexual abuse in childhood (Kelly, Burton and Regan 1996); and a review of what we know about sexual exploitation of children (Kelly, Wingfield, Burton and Regan 1995).
