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Examines child sexual abuse from a public health perspective. Familiarizes students with public health strategies used to address three related domains: child sexual abuse detection and prevention, treating victims, and offender interventions. Challenges students to critique current approaches to child sexual victimization detection and intervention, using the Penn State sex abuse scandal as a case study. Focuses particularly on limitations of formal social responses to child sexual assault, which primarily existed in the criminal justice arena. As an alternative, introduces emerging approaches in perpetrator-focused primary prevention.