“It Made Me so Vulnerable”: Victim-blaming and Disbelief of Child Sexual Abuse as Triggers of Social Exclusion Leading Women to Homelessness

This study shows how traumatic child sexual abuse experiences and negative social reactions to their disclosure can both contribute to social exclusion and isolation, and to homelessness through the internalization of rape myths.

Publication Date: 
2022
Journal Name: 
Journal of Child Sexual Abuse