Children as 'Risk'

Sexual Exploitation and Abuse by Children and Young People

AvAnne-Marie McAlinden

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2020-11-26
Mått:152 x 229 x 19 mm
Vikt:553 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
Antal sidor:374
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781316507988

Utforska kategorier

Kriminalvård och straff inom Samhälle och politik
Lag och samhälle inom Juridik
Våld och övergrepp inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Anne-Marie McAlinden is a Professor of Law and Criminal Justice at Queen's University Belfast. She is an internationally recognised expert on sexual offending against children and the author/editor of over fifty publications, including two previous sole-authored monographs, the first of which, The Shaming of Sexual Offenders (2007), was awarded the British Journal of Criminology Book Prize 2008. She has been Principal Investigator on a number of ESRC funded projects including a recently completed three-year study on 'Sex Offender Desistance'; and currently 'Apologies, Abuses and Dealing with the Past', where one of the case studies is institutional child abuse.

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'... Children as 'Risk' is a superb monograph that I would recommend to others without hesitation. Indeed, while ostensibly produced for an (interdisciplinary) academic audience, I am convinced that practitioners and public policy-makers alike will benefit from reading McAlinden's analysis ...' Laura Bainbridge, The British Journal of Criminology

Innehållsförteckning

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'.