Sally-Ann Ashton is an associate fellow of the British Psychological Society and is currently the director of the Center for Crime, Urban Research and Education (C-CURE) at the University of Houston-Downtown, Texas, USA.Anna Bussu is a chartered psychologist (CPsychol), reader in Criminal Justice at Edge Hill University in the United Kingdom, and co-director of the Centre for Applied Criminal Justice and Policing Research.

• Introduction: conceptualising child criminal exploitation as a dynamic and relational process Chapter 1. From vulnerability to exploitation: a process-oriented framework for early child criminal exploitation Chapter 2. Co-offending roles, training, and progression through the ranks Chapter 3. Emotions and offending experiences Chapter 4. Self-perception, self-awareness, and the process of child criminal exploitation Chapter 5. Pathways to desistance Chapter 6. Conclusions: towards a process-oriented understanding of child criminal exploitation

Sally-Ann Ashton is an associate fellow of the British Psychological Society and is currently the director of the Center for Crime, Urban Research and Education (C-CURE) at the University of Houston-Downtown, Texas, USA.Anna Bussu is a chartered psychologist (CPsychol), reader in Criminal Justice at Edge Hill University in the United Kingdom, and co-director of the Centre for Applied Criminal Justice and Policing Research.

• Introduction: conceptualising child criminal exploitation as a dynamic and relational process Chapter 1. From vulnerability to exploitation: a process-oriented framework for early child criminal exploitation Chapter 2. Co-offending roles, training, and progression through the ranks Chapter 3. Emotions and offending experiences Chapter 4. Self-perception, self-awareness, and the process of child criminal exploitation Chapter 5. Pathways to desistance Chapter 6. Conclusions: towards a process-oriented understanding of child criminal exploitation

Sally-Ann Ashton is an associate fellow of the British Psychological Society and is currently the director of the Center for Crime, Urban Research and Education (C-CURE) at the University of Houston-Downtown, Texas, USA.Anna Bussu is a chartered psychologist (CPsychol), reader in Criminal Justice at Edge Hill University in the United Kingdom, and co-director of the Centre for Applied Criminal Justice and Policing Research.

• Introduction: conceptualising child criminal exploitation as a dynamic and relational process Chapter 1. From vulnerability to exploitation: a process-oriented framework for early child criminal exploitation Chapter 2. Co-offending roles, training, and progression through the ranks Chapter 3. Emotions and offending experiences Chapter 4. Self-perception, self-awareness, and the process of child criminal exploitation Chapter 5. Pathways to desistance Chapter 6. Conclusions: towards a process-oriented understanding of child criminal exploitation