‘They Wouldn’t Believe Me’: Giving a Voice to British South Asian Male Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse

Gill, Aisha K; Begum, Hannah

doi:10.1093/bjc/azac097

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‘They Wouldn’t Believe Me’: Giving a Voice to British South Asian Male Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse

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Gill, Aisha K, Begum, Hannah·2023·The British Journal of Criminology

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British South Asian male child sexual abuse (CSA) survivors face a twofold problem: lack of research on this phenomenon and limited service provision. First, male CSA survivors have traditionally been marginalized in favour of female CSA survivors, a group that forms the basis of most academic research and to whom the majority of counselling and support services in the UK cater (Rapsey et al. 2020). The centrality of these female experiences, although crucial to understanding CSA survivor experiences in general, has eclipsed the specific narratives of male survivors. Second, despite the UK’s incredibly multicultural population, people from minoritized backgrounds still experience institutional forms of racism that are entrenched in service provision and research and that lead to racialized and Eurocentric perspectives and practices (Singh 2019). This article thus seeks to expand on the existing body of literature on male CSA in minoritized groups. It illuminates the experiences of male survivors from British South Asian communities, creating space for the much-needed voices of a critically under-researched group.

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Authors: Gill, A. K., & Begum, H.
Affiliations: University of Bristol (GB)
Corresponding author: Gill, Aisha K
ORCID: Gill, Aisha K
Venue: The British Journal of Criminology
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Published: 2023-01-03
Volume: 63
Issue: 5
Pages: 1146-1164
ISSN: 0007-0955 (ISSN-L)
1464-3529
DOI: 10.1093/bjc/azac097
OpenAlex: W4313527691
Semantic Scholar: d5bbb3e2af4642184546b9433c9f3250b3d04bb4
Cited by: 14
References: 96
Citations by year: 2026: 6 · 2025: 3 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 2
FWCI: 4.08
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: green
hdl.handle.net
Licence: other-oa
Locations: The British Journal of Criminology (publishedVersion)
Bristol Research (University of Bristol) (acceptedVersion, other-oa)
Explore Bristol Research (submittedVersion, other-oa)
RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
Funders: Economic and Social Research Council (ES/X003078/1)
Topics: Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child Abuse and Trauma
Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies
Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Military, Security, and Education Studies
Keywords: child sexual abuse, male survivors, British South Asian communities, minoritized communities, institutional racism, under-researched populations, service delivery, survivor experiences

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