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Children as 'Risk': Sexual Exploitation and Abuse by Children and Young People

Children as 'Risk': Sexual Exploitation and Abuse by Children and Young People

Author: Anne-Marie McAlinden
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781316507988

Published In: November 2020
Format: Paperback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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Hardback Edition ISBN: 9781107144842

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This book critically examines socio-political constructions of risk related to sexual offending behaviour by and among children and young people and charts the rise of harmful sexual or exploitative behaviour among peers, drawing on a range of theoretical frameworks and primary research.

Discussion of these behaviours is exhibited against a backdrop of the premature cultural sexualisation of contemporary childhood, which challenges traditional conceptions of childhood, victimhood and gendered sexual identities more broadly. It examines the complexities of peer-based sexual behaviours in a range of settings, including within organisational contexts such as schools and care homes, within families and peer-based relationships, as well as online contexts including sexting and cyberbullying. It draws out the myriad legal, practical and policy challenges of negotiating the boundaries between normal/experimental, risky/problematic and harmful sexual behaviour, and in particular the demarcation between coercion and consent, both for professionals as well as children and young people themselves.

Part I. The Theoretical and Policy Context:

1. Conceptualising children as 'risk: an introduction

2. Child sexual exploitation and abuse: a contemporary history of concerns

3. The social and political construction of sexual offending concerning children

Part II. Children As 'Risk': Children and Young People Who Display Harmful Sexual or Exploitative Behaviour:

4. The emergence of harmful sexual behaviour

5. Peer-to-peer grooming: a re-appraisal

6. The nature and scope of peer-to-peer exploitation and abuse: towards a typology of 'harm'

7. Legal and societal responses to 'risk'

Part III. Future Approaches:

8. Conclusion: re-imagining 'risk'