In France this lack has been addressed by the development of the concept of abus de droit ("abuse of right").
Forty percent (40%) of street children mentioned sexual abuse while 39.5% mentioned physical abuse as their concept of child abuse.
However, this would also get through to those, who, while not abusive themselves, have inadvertently acted as enablers, merely by being openly dubious about the very concept of psychological abuse.
Yet the core concept of sexual abuse and people with learning disabilities does not seem to permeate society's consciousness; nor does it receive the attention it is owed by the statutory services.
But they also inserted a caveat: "Although the brain disease model of addiction has yielded effective preventive measures, treatment interventions, and public health policies to address substance-use disorders, the underlying concept of substance abuse as a brain disease continues to be questioned... " Those words triggered an allergic reaction in me.
In this essay, I would like to challenge the timeless, ahistorical concept of child abuse presented by the NSPCC in this particular campaign.
The concept of academic abuse also encapsulated instances in which interns were excluded from reasonable learning opportunities offered to others, or threatened with failure or poor evaluations for reasons unrelated to academic performance.
Elsewhere, in 2013, she spoke to the Today programme about lessons that could learned from the Jimmy Savile abuse scandal, saying: "I think if one looks at the whole concept of child sexual abuse - friends, neighbours, colleagues, find it extremely difficult to believe that the nice guy they work with, or play bridge with, could possibly behave like that.
The article attempts to place this case in the social, legal, and cultural context of eighteenth-century Venice, and addresses the question of what it meant to prosecute such a case in the late eighteenth century, before the existence of any clear concept of the sexual abuse of children.
