To browse Academia. During her year career, Abbe has worked with young people both directly and through others, across a range of contexts as an educator, researcher, youth worker, coach 7 and sport psychologist. She lectures in sports coaching and sport psychology at the University of Gloucestershire. She has also worked in coach, mentor and tutor development for sports coach UK.
As an accredited sport psychologist working in high performance settings she has gained insights to discourse, praxis and varied experiences of young athletes, parents and coaches, which has fuelled her research interest to understand athlete well-being in high performance sport and promote athlete-centred practice. International Review for the Sociology of Sport, This has consequences for their legal, civil and human rights as children and for the way in which sport organisations choose to intervene on their behalf to protect them from physical, psychological and sexual abuses.
The man-boy sexual encounter, or male-child sexual abuse MCSA , is a widespread, persistent social practice. The causes, or aetiology, of sex offending against children has been the topic of sustained research and theory for several decades e. Finkelhor, and there is now a considerable literature on the impact of such activity on male victims Spiegel, Recently, some research has enabled the stories of abused males to be considered in detail e.
Hunter, a and some social theorists have emphasized the importance of this endeavour Plummer, Sexual exploitation and child sexual abuse CSA is a relatively recent addition to the study of sport Brackenridge, and so far there has been no sustained attention given to the sexual subjection of the male child. This thesis develops the literature on sexual exploitation in sport by examining the experiences of men sexually abused in the context of sport.
Feminist research has identified the gendered nature of sex offending and the role of patriarchy in this practice e. Kelly, and similar, contextualised arguments have been made by scholars of sport Brackenridge, However, explanatory accounts of CSA are deeply contested and psychological perspectives dominate the debate Ward et al. Therefore, in considering MCSA in sport, a fundamental issue is how the sexual abuse of children is to be understood.
