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Research and Articles by Stop It Now! Staff

Published research articles and book chapters written by Stop It Now! staff:

“I Didn’t Know Where To Go”: An Examination of Stop It Now!’s Sexual Abuse Prevention Helpline (2019)

Journal of Interpersonal Violence, Volume: 34 issue: 20, page(s): 4225-4253
Billie-Jo Grant, PhD., Ryan T. Shields, PhD, Joan Tabachnick, MPPM, and Jenny Coleman, MA, LMHC

Circles of Safety for Higher Education: Creating the Foundation for Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse (2016)

Journal of Campus Title IX Compliance and Best Practices, 2016, Volume 2.
Deborah Donovan Rice, Program Director, Circles of Safety for Higher Education, Victoria Sanders, Ph.D., Assistant Vice Chancellor/Chief EEEO Compliance Officer & State System Title IX Coordinator, Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education, Jane G. Stapleton, Co-Director, Prevention Innovations Research Center, Valerie Mercado, Compliance Officer/Title IX Coordinator, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Jennifer Coleman, Director, Stop It Now!

Competing meanings of childhood and the social construction of child sexual abuse in the Caribbean (2012)

Childhood: A Journal of Global Child Research
Pasura D, Jones A, Hafner JA, Maharaj PE, Nathaniel-DeCaires K, Johnson EJ.  

The Prevention of Sexual Abuse: Pyschological and Public Health Perspectives (2011)

In Journal of Sexual Addiction and Compulsivity, 9, 1-14.

Joan Tabachnick and Geral Blanchard

Evidence-based prevention programs: Stop It Now! (2010)

In K.L. Kaufman (ed.), The Prevention of Sexual Violence: A Practitioner’s Sourcebook. NEARI Press, 2010.

Deborah Donovan Rice, James A. H. Hafner and Peter Pollard

Grandparents' unique role in preventing child sexual abuse (2006)

In Crime Victims Report, November/December, Vol. 10, No. 5, 69-76.
Peter Pollard and Lisa Mintz

Stop It Now! (2006)

In Crime Victims Report, September/October, Vol. 10, No. 5, 51, 60.
Peter Pollard

Community re-entry recast as primary prevention (2006)

In Sex Offender Law Report, Aug/Sept, Vol. 7, No. 5, 65-80.
Deborah Donovan Rice 

Marketing sexual abuse prevention (2006)

In Behavioral Healthcare, 2006, Vol. 26, No. 5, 8-9.
Peter Pollard 

Framing, responding to and preventing child sexual abuse as a public health problem (2005)

In Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Resource Guide. Harrisburg, PA: National Sexual Violence Resource Center.
Alisa Klein

Pulling together our work with victims and with offenders creates a safer community for children (2005)

In Sexual Assault Report, Jan/Feb, Vol. 8, No. 3, 33, 44-47.
Joan Tabachnick, Marci Diamond, and Jennifer Meade

Public dialogues put a human face on child sexual abuse (2005)

In ATSA Forum, Winter,Vol. XVII, No. 1, 8-12.
Joan Tabachnick

Youth with sexual behavior problems: policy issues, implications and recommendations for prevention (2004)

In Sex Offender Law Report, October/November, Vol. 5, No. 6, 69-70 and 82-84.
Alisa Klein and Joan Tabachnick

Dialogue project breaks new ground (2004)

In Crime Victims Report, November/December, Vol. 8, No. 5, 65-66.
Joan Tabachnick

Stop abuse before it starts (2004)

The Washington Post, March 23.
Fran Henry and Mark Rosenberg

Youth with sexual behavior problems: policy issues, implications and recommendations for prevention

In Representing Children, Families, and Agencies in Child Welfare, Juvenile Justice, Custody, and Adoption Proceedings - Children's Law Manual Series - 2004, 121-126. Denver, CO: National Association of Counsel for Children.
Alisa Klein and Joan Tabachnick

Create a social marketing campaign with information learned from abusers, those at risk to abuse, and their friends and families (2003)

In National Child Advocate, 5 (2), 1-10.
Joan Tabachnick

STOP IT NOW! An innovative social marketing campaign targeting sexual abusers and the people who know abusers (2003)

Social Marketing Quarterly, 9(1), 42-47.
Joan Tabachnick

Framing a new approach: finding ways to effectively prevent sexual abuse by youth (2002)

In The Prevention Researcher, November, Vol. 9, No. 4, 8-10.
Alisa Klein and Joan Tabachnick

The prevention of sexual abuse: psychology and public health perspectives (2002)

In Journal of Sexual Addiction and Compulsivity, 9, 1-14.
Joan Tabachnick and Geral Blanchard

The importance of public policy advocacy

Alisa Klein and David A. D'Amora, 2002

What can members learn from the U.S. catholic church debacle about child sexual abuse and public health? (2002)

In ATSA Forum, Fall, Vol. XIV, No. 3, 9.
Fran Henry

STOP IT NOW.

In B. Schwartz (Ed.), The Sex Offender. Vol. 4, 2002 Kingston, New Jersey: Civic Research Institute.
Fran Henry and Joan Tabachnick

Evaluation of a child sexual abuse prevention program - Vermont, 1995-1999 (2001)

In Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, February 9, 50(05). Atlanta, GA: US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Joan Tabachnick, Lisa Chasan-Taber, and Pamela McMahon

Evaluation of a child sexual abuse prevention program -Vermont, 1995-1999 (2001)

Journal of the American Medical Association,
March 7, 285,(9), 114-115.
Joan Tabachnick, Lisa Chasan-Taber, and Pamela McMahon

Views of child sexual abuse in two cultural communities: An exploratory study among African Americans and Latinos, (2001).

Child Maltreatment, 6, 103-117.
Joan Tabachnick, Mario Cruz, & Lisa Fontes

Stop It Now! Vermont: A Four Year Program Evaluation, 1995-1999, (2000).

Offender Programs Report, November/December, 1, (4), 49.
Joan Tabachnick and Elizabeth Dawson

STOP IT NOW! challenges thinking about child sexual abuse, (2000).

SIECUS Report, October/November 29(1),47-49.
Joan Tabachnick

Create a social marketing campaign from what we learn from abusers, (2000).

Offenders Program Report, July/August, 4,(2),21.
Joan Tabachnick

Evaluation of a child sexual abuse prevention program, (1999).

Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment, 11(4), 279-292.
Joan Tabachnick & Lisa Chasan-Taber

Sexual abuse: a primer on prevention, (1999)

NOTA News, December, 32, 4-14.
Fran Henry

Preventing child sexual abuse: Vermont public health campaign has positive results, (1998).

At-Risk Children and Families, Sept/Oct 1(4),57.
Joan Tabachnick

Perceptions of child sexual abuse as a public health problem (1997)

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, August 29, 46(34). Atlanta, GA: US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Joan Tabachnick, Fran Henry and Liz Denny

An innovative social marketing approach to preventing child sexual abuse (1997)

In 1997 Innovations in Social Marketing Conference Proceedings, 87-92.
Joan Tabachnick

STOP IT NOW! advocates treatment to combat child abuse (1997)

Crime Victims Report, July/August 1(3), 33.
Fran Henry

Survivor gets message out to abusers: STOP IT NOW! (1995)

The Healing Woman. January.
Fran Henry