Perpetrators of organised child sexual exploitation (CSE) in the UK: a review of current research

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 258-274 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Colley
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Exploitation ◽  
Child Sexual Exploitation ◽  
The Uk

Child Sexual Exploitation: Why Theory Matters

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Sexual Exploitation ◽  
Related Services ◽  
Therapeutic Work ◽  
The Public ◽  
High Profile ◽  
Child Sexual Exploitation ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Improve Practice

The issue of child sexual exploitation (CSE) is firmly in the public spotlight internationally and in the UK, but just how well is it understood? To date, many CSE-related services have been developed in reaction to high profile cases rather than being designed more strategically. This book breaks new ground by considering how psychosocial, feminist and geo-environmental theories, amongst others, can improve practice understanding and interventions. It makes the case for a more thoughtful approach to CSE prevention and a greater use of different theoretical perspectives in the development and delivery of strategies and interventions. The book is an essential text for students and those planning strategic interventions and practice activities in social, youth and therapeutic work with young people, as it supports understanding of how CSE arises and how to challenge the nature of the abuse.

scholarly journals Roma Children and Young People in Bulgaria: Patterns of Risk and Effective Protection in Relation to Child Sexual Exploitation

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kate D'Arcy ◽  
Isabelle Brodie
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Young People ◽  
Sexual Exploitation ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
Child Sexual Exploitation ◽  
Care Systems ◽  
Prosecution Strategies ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Children In Care ◽  
Comparative Information

This article examines patterns of risk regarding child sexual exploitation (CSE). There is specific focus on those living in alternative care, child sexual exploitation and trafficking among Roma communities in Bulgaria and the UK. Data is drawn from a desk-based literature review and partnership work with Bulgarian and British academics and practitioners to explore the issues in both countries. Although there is limited statistical data on CSE and children in care across Europe and the risk-factors for Roma children and young people are still not being fully recognised, we can draw on what is known in Bulgaria to inform practice in the UK with emerging Roma communities. Research on CSE more generally can also inform awareness of risk factors particularly around care systems. Comparative information about what is known in the UK and Bulgaria is considered in order to make some recommendations for international prevention, protection efforts, and prosecution strategies for the future.

scholarly journals Failing victims, fuelling hate: challenging the harms of the ‘Muslim grooming gangs’ narrative

Race & Class ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 61 (3) ◽  
pp. 3-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ella Cockbain ◽  
Waqas Tufail
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Violence ◽  
Sexual Exploitation ◽  
Collective Responsibility ◽  
Public Debate ◽  
Political Context ◽  
Far Right ◽  
Child Sexual Exploitation ◽  
Muslim Men ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Uk

‘Muslim grooming gangs’ have become a defining feature of media, political and public debate around child sexual exploitation in the UK. The dominant narrative that has emerged to explain a series of horrific cases is misleading, sensationalist and has in itself promoted a number of harms. This article examines how racist framings of ‘Muslim grooming gangs’ exist not only in extremist, far-right fringes but in mainstream, liberal discourses too. The involvement of supposedly feminist and liberal actors and the promotion of pseudoscientific ‘research’ have lent a veneer of legitimacy to essentialist, Orientalist stereotypes of Muslim men, the demonisation of whole communities and demands for collective responsibility. These developments are situated in the broader socio-political context, including the far Right’s weaponisation of women’s rights, the ‘Islamophobia industry’ and a long history of racialising crime. We propose alternative ways of understanding and responding to child sexual exploitation/abuse. We contend that genuinely anti-racist feminist approaches can help in centring victims/survivors and their needs and in tackling serious sexual violence without demonising entire communities.

scholarly journals Child sexual exploitation and youth offending: A research note

2012 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 689-700 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ella Cockbain ◽  
Helen Brayley
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Exploitation ◽  
Youth Justice ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Recidivism Rates ◽  
Child Sexual Exploitation ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Preliminary Research ◽  
Female Offending ◽  
Offending Behaviour ◽  
The Uk

Links between child sexual exploitation (CSE) and youth offending should be better recognised, according to these preliminary research findings from the UK. Data from a leading CSE service provider and Youth Offending Team were analysed for the period 2001–2010 inclusive. Of CSE victims, 40 percent had offending records and recidivism rates were high. Together they committed 1586 offences – 5 percent of all local youth crime. Male and female offending behaviour differed significantly. The types of offences identified were potentially symptomatic of CSE. Referral to CSE services typically post-dated arrest, indicating that children were recognised first as offenders. Challenges in researching the interactions between these two complex issues are discussed. This study has important implications for youth justice policy and practice, both nationally and internationally.

scholarly journals Child Trafficking vs. Child Sexual Exploitation: Critical reflection on the UK media reports

2021 ◽  
pp. 69-85
Author(s):  
Elena Krsmanovic
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Exploitation ◽  
Child Trafficking ◽  
White Slavery ◽  
Child Sexual Exploitation ◽  
Victim Assistance ◽  
Media Reports ◽  
Trafficking Victims ◽  
The One ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Media Narratives

This article explores how UK media narratives construct sexual exploitation of British children as a phenomenon to be approached differently than sexual exploitation of trafficked minors who are non-British nationals. Qualitative analysis of media articles that frame infamous child sexual exploitation cases as occurrences of human trafficking shows that they bank on the motifs from the historical white slavery myth. Thereby, these articles endorse the stereotypes of white victim and foreign trafficker and obscure the diversity of trafficking victims, perpetrators, and experiences. Furthermore, comparison between media reports focusing on cases involving British minors, on the one hand, and minors from abroad, on the other hand, reveals that only the former problematise inadequate victim assistance and systemic failures in dealing with sexual exploitation of minors. This leaves structural causes of child trafficking unaddressed, promotes differential treatment of victims based on their nationality, and stigmatises whole communities as immoral and crime-prone.

Making pimps and sex buyers visible: Recognising the commercial nexus in ‘child sexual exploitation’

2018 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 108-126 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maureen O’hara
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Exploitation ◽  
Third Party ◽  
Commercial Sexual Exploitation ◽  
Coercive Control ◽  
Sex Trade ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
The Third ◽  
Law And Policy ◽  
Child Sexual Exploitation ◽  
The Uk

This article suggests that the policy re-framing of the prostitution of children as a separate phenomenon from the prostitution of adults is obscuring the commercial nexus between men who buy sex with children and the third party profiteers (pimps) who frequently supply the children they buy. It suggests that this is making both groups of perpetrators invisible. It argues that coercion is endemic to the sex trade and explores the gendered strategies of coercive control used by pimps to entrap both children and women. The article suggests that the wider sex trade creates a ‘conducive context’ for the sexual commodification of children, and that the commercial sexual exploitation of children and adults can only be effectively challenged by policy and law aimed at reducing demand for all forms of prostitution. It focusses on law and policy in England and Wales, which differs from the rest of the UK.

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