Anne-Marie McAlinden (Queen's University Belfast)

Children as 'Risk'

Sexual Exploitation and Abuse by Children and Young People

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Produktbeschreibung

This book examines socio-political constructions of risk related to sexual offending behaviour by and among children and young people, combining theoretical analysis with primary research. The book will appeal to scholars, legal and other professionals, and schools and parents in helping children navigate today's highly sexualised landscape.

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Produktdetails

• Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 372
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. November 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 542g
• ISBN-13: 9781316507988
• ISBN-10: 131650798X
• Artikelnr.: 60094756

Autorenporträt

Anne-Marie McAlinden is a Professor of Law and Criminal Justice at Queen's University Belfast. She is an internationally recognised expert on sexual offending against children and the author/editor of over fifty publications, including two previous sole-authored monographs, the first of which, The Shaming of Sexual Offenders (2007), was awarded the British Journal of Criminology Book Prize 2008. She has been Principal Investigator on a number of ESRC funded projects including a recently completed three-year study on 'Sex Offender Desistance'; and currently 'Apologies, Abuses and Dealing with the Past', where one of the case studies is institutional child abuse.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. The Theoretical and Policy Context: 1. Conceptualising children as
'risk: an introduction; 2. Child sexual exploitation and abuse: a
contemporary history of concerns; 3. The social and political construction
of sexual offending concerning children; Part II. Children As 'Risk':
Children and Young People Who Display Harmful Sexual or Exploitative
Behaviour: 4. The emergence of harmful sexual behaviour; 5. Peer-to-peer
grooming: a re-appraisal; 6. The nature and scope of peer-to-peer
exploitation and abuse: towards a typology of 'harm'; 7. Legal and societal
responses to 'risk'; Part III. Future Approaches: 8. Conclusion:
re-imagining 'risk'.