Preventing Child Sexual Abuse Before It Begins
Parents Preventing Child Sexual Abuse
Resources for parents and children to prevent abuse.
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Skills and tools necessary for adolescents and adults with an attraction to children to live safe, healthy, and non-offending lives.
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Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Resources
Resources for people concerned about their own sexual thoughts and behavior.
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Moore Center Headlines
March 2023
FebrUARY 2023
JANUARY 2023
- Psychology Today: Teaching teens to help prevent child sexual abuse
- Public Health on Call: Preventing child sexual abuse
DECemBER 2022
- The Baltimore Sun: Prevention, healing and justice are all needed to address child sexual abuse
- The Johns Hopkins News-Letter: New education intervention fills knowledge gaps on child sexual assault
novemBER 2022
- The Baltimore Sun: Preventing child sexual abuse must be a priority
- Washington Post: We need to prevent child sex abuse, not just respond to it
OctoBER 2022
- Economist Impact: Out of the Shadows
- Psychology Today: Put people first when discussing child sexual abuse
- Public News Service: Researchers Link Medicaid Expansion with Child-Neglect Reduction
SEPTEMBER 2022
- Psychology Today: What Medicaid Expansion Can Tell Us About Child Maltreatment
- Harvard Inquest: Prosecution, incarceration, and surveillance don’t stop child sexual abuse. But prevention can.
July 2022
MAY 2022
- Chronicle of Higher Education: An Unacceptable Idea
- NBC News: They're banned from Olympic Sports. Why are they coaching children?
April 2022
- HUB: Incarcerating child sexual abusers topped $5.4 billion in 2021 according to study
- Maine Public Radio: Child pornography cases are rising in Maine and nationally, but so is detection
- Psychology Today: Child Sex Abuse: We Need Prevention, Not Just Punishment
March 2022
- Hopkins Bloomberg Public Health Magazine: Stopping Child Sexual Abuse Requires a Shift in Funding Priorities
- The Crime Report: U.S. Spends $5.4B Yearly on Incarcerating Adults for Sex Crimes Against Children
- The Hill: We're Still Not Spending Enough to Prevent Child Sexual Abuse
February 2022
- Hopkins Bloomberg Public Health Magazine: The Harms of Placing Kids on Sex Offender Registries
- Psychology Today: Reframing Child Sex Abuse as a Preventable Public Health Issue
- Slate: Nine Year Olds Are Being Forced to Register as Sex Offenders. That Might Finally Change
December 2021
- Psychology Today: Professor's Research Sparks Firestorm at Virginia College
- The Washington Post Opinion: A Virginia college professor set off a firestorm about pedophilia
November 2021
- Alliance Magazine: Putting A Stop To Child Sexual Abuse Before It Occurs
- U.S. News: Professor Who Wrote About Adults Attracted to Minors Resigns
- The Washington Post Opinion: Overreach at Old Dominion
March 2021
- The Globe and Mail: Initiative targets potential abusers who have thoughts or urges to sexually abuse children
- Hub: Johns Hopkins Moore Center for the Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse receives $10.3 million grant for global prevention program
February 2021
- Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health: "Spotlight Series" on advocacy and policy efforts to prevent child sexual abuse
January 2021
June 2020
May 2020
- Psychology Today: Preventing Child Sexual Abuse during Covid-19
- Public Health On Call podcast: Preventing child sexual abuse in the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Hub: Pandemic poses key challenges for preventing child sexual abuse: Center releases resources pages, online course
- Press Release: Preventing Child Sexual Abuse During Covid-19: Moore Center launches family resource pages, online course for people concerned about their own sexual feelings toward children
April 2020
February 2020
January 2020
December 2019
- Statement: CDC Awarded Congressional Appropriations of $1M in New Funding for Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Research
- Parents Should Take Advantage of School Break to Check-In With Their Children
November 2019
September 2019
September 2018
August 2018
June 2018
- Daily Beast: Columbia University student fought against sexual violence—until he was charged with child sex crimes
- HealthDay: Tragedy of child sexual abuse takes financial toll, too
- Psychology Today: Crisis on the southern border: We're putting kids in danger
May 2018
- Psychology Today: Victims of sexual abuse face a lifetime of costly problems
- Press Release: One year's losses for child sexual abuse in U.S. top $9 billion, new study suggests
- Sports Illustrated: Prospect and pariah
April 2018
March 2018
- Psychology Today: Will reporting laws in Michigan prevent child sexual abuse?
- Press Release: Child sexual abuse in U.S. costs up to $1.5 million per child death
- Johns Hopkins Magazine: When the abuser is a child, too
January 2018
December 2017
October 2017
- Post-Crescent: Are Halloween restrictions on sex offenders useful or useless?
- QCOnline: Beware holiday that scares adults
July 2017
June 2017
May 2017
April 2017
- Psychology Today: Should children register as sex offenders?
- CBS News: Childhood sex abuse could accelerate puberty in girls, study finds
March 2017
- 7News: Issues in dealing with children who abuse
- Sky News: Not all child abusers are monsters: experts
December 2016
November 2016
October 2016
September 2016
July 2016
- New York Times: Punishment that Doesn't Fit the Crime
- The Hill: Marking Kids for Life on Sex Offender Registries
June 2016
May 2016
- Pacific Standard: What's the Real Rate of Sex Crime Recidivism?
- Slate: What's Wrong with the Brock Turner Sentence?
- WYPR's Midday with Sheilah Kast: Reforming the Sex Offender Registry
- Maryland Reporter: State Roundup - May 12, 2016
March 2016
- The New Yorker: The List
- Pacific Standard: Are We Properly Dealing with Young Sex Offenders?
- Rising to the Challenge: The Campaign for Johns Hopkins: To Serve and Prevent
January 2016
November 2015
- Stateline: States Slowly Scale Back Juvenile Sex Offender Registries
- Reuters: Tide Turns Against U.S. Residency Restrictions on Sex Offenders
- Psychology Today: Sympathy for the Deviant
October 2015
September 2015
- Baltimore Sun: Study of Baltimore County: Fewer Sex Offenses Reported in Neighborhoods with More Registered Sex Offenders
- Upworthy: A Protective Treatment Program for Pedophiles in Germany is Raising Some Eyebrows
- Fox 45 Baltimore: Ryan T. Shields is interviewed regarding a juvenile charged with assault
August 2015
- Baltimore Business Journal: People on the Move - Stephen Moore, MD, MPH, Appointed to JHSPH Health Advisory Board
- Washington Post: The Jared Fogel Case: Why We Understand So Little About Child Sexual Abuse
July 2015
June 2015
- Newsweek: The Hunt for Child Sex Abusers is Happening in the Wrong Places
- Freakonomics Radio: Making Sex Offenders Pay - and Pay and Pay and Pay
- Secrets and Realities of US Child Abuse - NPR's On Point with Tom Ashbrook
May 2015
- 10 Firsts in 10 Decades - Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
- Featured in the Observador (Portuguese newspaper) about sex offender registries in Portugal
April 2015
February 2015
December 2014
- Pennsylvania's Juvenile Sex Offender Registry is Unconstitutional, State Supreme Court Rules
- This Woman is Trying to Stop Sex Offenders by Helping Them
- Studies, Experts Question Effect of Placing Children on Sex Offender Registries
November 2014
October 2014
Since launching in 2012, the Moore Center for the Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse has made incredible progress toward the prevention of child sexual abuse.
We work to create change through our efforts in research, education, communication, advocacy, and policy. We work to change the way the world thinks about child sexual abuse, from inevitable to preventable. We work to change the way world thinks about prevention, to understand that perpetration prevention is a necessary element of a comprehensive approach to child sexual abuse. We work to grow the human and the capital resources necessary to continue and expand these efforts.
Please see our annual report for more information about our work.