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Critical Perspectives on Child Sexual Exploitation and Related Trafficking

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  1. Margaret Melrose

    1. University of Bedfordshire, UK

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  2. Jenny Pearce

    1. University of Bedfordshire, UK

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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.

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  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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Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Bedfordshire, UK

    Margaret Melrose, Jenny Pearce

About the editors

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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