Table of Contents

Definitions and recent history, Peter Bibby; an overview of the literature, David Gough; legal issues, Maureen O'Hara; how rings work, Roger Gaspar and Peter Bibby; the effect on children and their families, Arnon Bentovi and Marian Bentovi; organized abuse and Asian communities, Perdeep Gill; the mind of the paedophile, Ray Wyre; the HIV/AIDS issue, Angela Thomas; organizing a response, Roger Gaspar; help for children and their families, Anne Peake; problems of liaison, Peter Bibby; institutional abuse, Cathy Doran and Chris Braman; pornography and the organization of child sexual abuse, Catherine Itzin; a police view of pornographic links, Mike Hames; ritual abuse - research findings, Jean La Fontaine; the nature and extent of known cases of organized child abuse in England and Wales, Bernard Gallagher, Beverley Hughes and Howard Parker; child abuse which involves wider kin and family friends, Hedy Cleaver and Pam Freeman; a model for training and staff development, Anne Hollows and Jan Horwath; an agenda for action, Peter Bibby.