Critical Perspectives on Child Sexual Exploitation and Related Trafficking

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Introduction: Critical Perspectives on Child Sexual Exploitation and Related Trafficking

   • Margaret Melrose, Jenny Pearce

   Pages 1-8

3. Young People and Sexual Exploitation: A Critical Discourse Analysis

   • Margaret Melrose

   Pages 9-22

4. Drifting into Trouble: Sexual Exploitation and Gang Affiliation

   • John Pitts

   Pages 23-37

5. Something Old or Something New: Do Pre-Existing Conceptualisations of Abuse Enable a Sufficient Response to Abuse in Young People’s Relationships and Peer-Groups?

   • Carlene Firmin

   Pages 38-51

6. A Social Model of ‘Abused Consent’

   • Jenny Pearce

   Pages 52-68

7. Looked After Young People and CSE: A View from Northern Ireland

   • Helen Beckett

   Pages 69-82

8. Young People, Trafficking and Sexual Exploitation: A View from Scotland

   • Isabelle Brodie

   Pages 83-95

9. Missing from Discourse: South Asian Young Women and Sexual Exploitation

   • Nicola Sharp

   Pages 96-109

10. Partners in Care? Sexually Exploited Young People’s Inclusion and Exclusion from Decision Making about Safeguarding

    • Camille Warrington

    Pages 110-124

11. Constructs of Safety for Children in Care Affected by Sexual Exploitation

    • Lucie Shuker

    Pages 125-138

12. Intersections in ‘Trafficking’ and ‘Child Sexual Exploitation’ Policy

    • Lorena Arocha

    Pages 139-152

13. Trafficking of Children and Young People: ‘Community’ Knowledge and Understandings

    • Patricia Hynes

    Pages 153-166

14. Concluding Thoughts

    • Jenny Pearce, Margaret Melrose

    Pages 167-168

15. Back Matter

    Pages 169-198

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This volume is the first major exploration of the issues relevant to young people who are affected by sexual exploitation and trafficking from a variety of critical perspectives. Issues include accommodation, gangs, migrant and refugee communities, perpetrators, international policy and the language through which we construct child exploitation.

• children
• gang
• international policy
• Policy
• women
• childhood studies

• University of Bedfordshire, UK

  Margaret Melrose, Jenny Pearce

John Pitts, University of Bedfordshire, UK Carlene Firmin, University of Bedfordshire, UK Helen Becket, University of Bedfordshire, UK Isabelle Brodie, University of Bedfordshire, UK Nicola Sharp, London Metropolitan University, UK Camille Warrington, University of Bedfordshire, UK Lucie Shuker, University of Bedfordshire, UK Lorena Arocha, University of Bedfordshire, UK Patricia Hynes, University of Bedfordshire, UK

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