This Element describes child sexual abuse and the formal organizations in which it can occur, reviews extant perspectives on child abuse, and explains how an organization theory approach can advance understanding of this phenomenon. It then elaborates the main paths through which organizational structures can influence child sexual abuse in organizations and analyze how these structures operate through these paths to impact the perpetration, detection, and response to abuse. The analysis is illustrated throughout with reports of child sexual abuse published in a variety of sources. The Element concludes with a brief discussion of the policy implications of this analysis.

Simulations have reached new levels of precision with the acceleration of progress in computing and processing power. The amounts of data that can be processed and analyzed allow new methodological advances and inspire researchers across disciplines to ask new research questions. The objectives of this edited volume therefore are - to identify new areas of research in which computer-based simulations allow for results and conclusions that would have not been possible without simulations - to evaluate the opportunities and the limits of computer-based simulations - and to foster trans-disciplinary scientific work that explores the potentials of e.g. methods of theoretical physics for areas of economic research.