A Study on Current Status of Online Sexual Exploitation of Children and Young People and Digital Platform Regulations: Focusing on the Online Child Sexual Exploitation Laws in the United States, Canada and Australia

2021 ◽  
Vol 90 ◽  
pp. 29-59
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Young People ◽  
Sexual Exploitation ◽  
The United States ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
Digital Platform ◽  
Child Sexual Exploitation

Understanding trauma and its relevance to child sexual exploitation

2019 ◽  
pp. 151-172
Author(s):  
Kristine Hickle
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Complex Trauma ◽  
Sexual Exploitation ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
Extreme Stress ◽  
Child Sexual Exploitation ◽  
Trauma Informed ◽  
Trauma Informed Practice ◽  
Trauma Responses ◽  
The Impact

This chapter provides a brief overview of the research on trauma, specifically in relation to the impact of developmental and complex trauma and sexual abuse. An overview of the growing body of research on trauma-informed approaches to practice is also given. It considers how trauma responses are developed while enduring extreme stress, and how these responses may be evident among children and young people with child sexual exploitation (CSE) experiences. The chapter also considers how systems designed to protect and support traumatised children and young people often contribute to their re-traumatisation. It explores principles of trauma-informed practice that are useful in meeting the needs of young people victimised by CSE, discusses how trauma-informed approaches align with strengths-based and relationship-based approaches to CSE practice, and how such approaches can help practitioners understand and promote resilience.

Strengthening (Re)integration from Child Sexual Exploitation: Children and Young People’s Recommendations

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 183-190
Author(s):  
Lopa Bhattacharjee ◽  
Helen J. Veitch
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Urban Community ◽  
Sexual Exploitation ◽  
Financial Independence ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
Psychosocial Wellbeing ◽  
Child Sexual Exploitation ◽  
Care Leavers ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
New Community

This article explores care leavers’ views and recommendations for practitioners and policymakers on the transition from leaving care to living independently in the community. Seven young adults fully reintegrated through programmes in Kathmandu, Nepal, co-produced action research with 21 of their peers (aged 16–26 years). This article outlines how children and young people affected by child sexual exploitation experience community reintegration, and their views on the key issues, reintegration services need to consider. Findings explored boys’ and girls’ experiences of stigma and discrimination by community members and revolved around social and cultural norms and narratives on masculinity and femininity that denied their victimhood. This article focuses on the theme of independence as it appears to reflect a changing context for reintegration practitioners in South Asia. Children and young people had not been reintegrated in their family; instead, they were living independently—a situation that can be described as ‘integration’ (with an urban community) rather than ‘reintegration’ (with their family of origin). Research participants’ exploration of ‘independence’ reflected this context and was defined as emotional or financial independence. The research appears to identify an adaptation to reintegration services to enable a smoother transition for care leavers. Most models of reintegration assume that children will ‘reintegrate’ with their families of origin. This research found that children sexually exploited in Kathmandu chose to ‘integrate’ into a new community to overcome isolation, exclusion and non-acceptance by their families and communities of origin and, in so doing, experienced emotional and financial independence. In this context, successful integration requires the provision of activities for parents that explain indicators of trauma so that they can appropriately support their children. In addition, support for care leavers targeted on psychosocial wellbeing, life-skills and income generation enables young people to live independently from their families and be ‘integrated’ into an urban community.

Protecting Children, Creating Citizens

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katrin Križ
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Young People ◽  
Child Protection ◽  
The United States ◽  
Participatory Approach ◽  
Front Line ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
Child Protection Workers ◽  
Complex Boundaries

This book examines a participatory approach in child protection practices in Norway and the United States, exploring ways of empowering children. The book shows how children can be encouraged to develop and express their own opinions and explores tools for child protection workers to negotiate complex boundaries around the inclusion of children in decision-making. The goal of the book is to show in what ways child protection caseworkers employed by public child protection agencies in Norway and the United States can create citizens by promoting the participation of children and young people in their everyday practice. Public child protection agencies are only one part of the citizenship piece, but they are a salient one in the lives of children and young people who encounter them. Child protection caseworkers working in public child protection agencies, make very important decisions about children and young people's lives and provide children, youth, and families with pertinent services. The book presents valuable insights from front-line child protection professionals' unique perspectives and experiences within two very different systems, and evaluates the impacts of different organizational practices in promoting children's participation.

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 When the American Dream Stops: New Challenges after DACA for ELT University Students in Mexico

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 51
Author(s):  
Rosalina Dominguez Angel
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Young People ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
The United States ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
Upper Secondary Education ◽  
Deferred Action ◽  
The Social ◽  
Upper Secondary ◽  
New Challenges

In recent years, thousands of children and young people have been repatriated from the United States to Mexico. Their parents decided to return to their country of origin and not to host them to the DACA (deferred action for childhood arrivals) program.  The objective of this paper is double: first, to characterize the different profiles of young students who return to Mexico after having studied some or all grades of their basic and upper secondary education in the United States and who are repatriated to take up their university studies; and secondly the challenges in scholastic and social issues are analyzed, those that students face in their attempt to attend higher education in another country. The results suggest that having a space for these students in the Mexican educational system is not enough, it is necessary to develop programs that facilitate the inclusion of these young people both in the school and in the social context.

Some concluding thoughts

2019 ◽  
pp. 247-250
Author(s):  
Jenny Pearce
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Sexual Exploitation ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
Child Sexual Exploitation ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Sexually Exploited Children

This chapter returns the discussion to the relationship between theory and practice in child sexual exploitation (CSE) intervention. It also tracks the broader implications of such an approach in related fields. While the sexual exploitation of children is the focus of this book, the ideas within it can be used to explore a range of forms of exploitation and abuse of children. Furthermore, these perspectives and political and economic concerns are explored in the book with sexually exploited children in mind, they are transferable to other exploitative contexts facing a range of children and young people. In addition, the chapter discusses some further avenues for exploration and implementation, including options for the setting up or reform of a service for children and young people.

Making Sense of Child Sexual Exploitation

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sophie Hallett
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Sexual Exploitation ◽  
Critical Perspective ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Child Sexual Exploitation ◽  
Childhood Care ◽  
The Social ◽  
Experienced Child ◽  
The Individual

This important book puts forward the rarely heard voices of children and young people who have experienced child sexual exploitation (CSE) and the professionals who have worked with them. CSE is now high on the social care agenda, but what is child sexual exploitation? How is it different from other forms of child sexual abuse? Hallett takes a critical perspective and argues that we need to use the exchange model - lost in the current focus on grooming - to answer these questions. She considers the problems that arise with conflating ‘child sexual exploitation’ with ‘grooming’ and the implications for the ways in which we respond to CSE and for the individual children and young people caught up in it. Central to the discussion are themes such as youth, childhood, care and power, making for an important sociological contribution to this under-researched field, whilst also providing new and valuable practice and policy relevant insights into this issue. The book challenges the dominant way of thinking about CSE and is essential reading for those working or training to work with children and young people.

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