Report
Looking Back to Move Forward: The history of Stop It Now! to inform future directions
University of the Sunshine Coast
2022
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.25907/01084
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Abstract
The purpose of this project was to undertake a focused study to consolidate the 30 year history of the Stop It Now! movement - a child sexual abuse (CSA) perpetration prevention initiative - documenting main achievements, as well as identifying factors that shaped its development and expansion. Findings are drawn from the experiences of professional stakeholders across respective Stop It Now! sites, including the United States, across the United Kingdom (England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland), Ireland, Netherlands, Belgium (Flanders), and Australia. Proposed areas for future consideration and discussion questions, derived from study findings, provide a platform from which to share innovative practices, increase collaborations, grow, and learn from one another, and plan future directions for Stop It Now!
Research Background
This original research was commissioned by the two international non-government agencies, Lucy Faithfull Foundation (UK) and Stop it Now! US (and funded by the OAK Foundation). The authors were commissioned to undertake a focused study to consolidate the 30-year history of the Stop It Now! movement - a child sexual abuse (CSA) perpetration prevention initiative - documenting main achievements, as well as identifying factors that shaped its development and expansion.
An integrated qualitative analysis was undertaken of stakeholder (n = 20) interviews representing the eight jurisdictions (United Kingdom [England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland], Ireland, Netherlands, Belgium [Flanders], and Australia) globally in which Stop It Now! has been implemented. Findings from these interviews were supplemented with a desktop review and analysis of published and unpublished (e.g., newsletters, internal memos, speeches etc.) documents (n = 173).
Research Contribution
Given the global expansion of the initiative, this is a significant body of research that provides an historical – and current – snapshot of the evidence-base, successes and barriers to implementation. Proposed areas for future consideration, derived from study findings, are now a platform from which the commissioning bodies can share innovative practices, increase collaborations, grow, and learn from other jurisdictions, and plan the future direction of Stop It Now!
Research Significance
This research was commissioned by the OAK foundation as a competitive process and the report was peer-reviewed by Lucy Faithfull and Stop it Now! UK as well as a leading researcher in this field – Joan Tabachnick. Findings from this research was disseminated to all stakeholders, via a global online prevention seminar, where the authors were invited keynote speakers. This publication is now available open access through UniSC research repository for dissemination, on request of commissioning bodies.
Details
- Title
- Looking Back to Move Forward: The history of Stop It Now! to inform future directions
- Authors
- Nadine McKillop (Author) - University of the Sunshine CoastSusan Rayment-McHugh (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast
- Publication details
- 80 pages
- Publisher
- University of the Sunshine Coast
- Date published
- 2022
- DOI
- 10.25907/01084
- Copyright note
- © 2022 Nadine McKillop & Susan Rayment-McHugh, University of the Sunshine Coast. This work is licensed under the CC Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 International license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.
- Organisation Unit
- Indigenous and Transcultural Research Centre; School of Law and Society; Sexual Violence Research and Prevention Unit
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99690798902621
- Output Type
- Report
- NTRO Classification
- NT1
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