Child Sexual Exploitation: Why Theory Matters

Jenny Pearce, OBE, is a Professor of Young People and Public Policy at the University of Bedfordshire.

"A topical and much needed resource reflecting research, theory, practice and experience of child sexual exploitation, violence and trafficking. It will be welcomed by practitioners and policy makers alike." Baroness Doreen E. Massey, House of Lords

• Foreword ~ Julia DavidsonBringing theory home: thinking about child sexual exploitation ~ Jenny PearceMoving beyond discourses of agency, gain and blame: reconceptualising young people’s experiences of sexual exploitation ~ Helen BeckettChild sexual exploitation, discourse analysis and why we still need to talk about prostitution ~ Jo PhoenixContextual Safeguarding: theorising the contexts of child protection and peer abuse ~ Carlene Firmin‘Losing track of morality’: understanding online forces and dynamics conducive to child sexual exploitation ~ Elly HansonUnderstanding adolescent development in the context of child sexual exploitation ~ John ColemanSome psychodynamic understandings of child sexual exploitation ~ Nick LuxmooreUnderstanding trauma and its relevance to child sexual exploitation ~ Kristine HickleSocial support, empathy and ecology: a theoretical underpinning for working with young people who have suffered child sexual abuse or exploitation ~ Pat Dolan and Caroline McGregorUsing an intersectional lens to examine the child sexual exploitation of black adolescents ~ Claudia BernardWhat’s gender got to do with it? Sexual exploitation of children as patriarchal violence ~ Maddy CoyUnderstanding models of disability to improve responses to children with learning disabilities ~ Emilie SmeatonSome concluding thoughts ~ Jenny Pearce