What if We Prevented Child Sexual Abuse Before It Happens?

Luke Malone joins us in this PreventConnect podcast episode with a special sneak peak into his and Elizabeth J. Letourneau’s new book: One in Five: Why Child Sexual Abuse Is Our Biggest Public Health Crisis—And What We Can Do to Stop It, coming out August 18, 2026.

Luke sits down with Ashleigh Klein-Jimenez to discuss how he came to spending more than a decade researching and reporting on child sexual abuse as a journalist, how some of our belief systems can limit our understanding of prevention, and how we already have the tools to prevent child sexual abuse.

Listen in today to learn more about what Luke believes we can do as a society to increase accessibility, understanding, and impact of prevention in our communities, and how One in Five covers the tools that anyone can use to be part of preventing child sexual abuse.

One in Five: Why Child Sexual Abuse Is Our Biggest Public Health Crisis—And What We Can Do to Stop It by Elizabeth J. Letourneau and Luke Malone comes out on August 18, 2026.

Check out Luke’s work at The Center for Violence Prevention Research