Critical Perspectives on Child Sexual Exploitation and Related Trafficking

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.

1. Young People and Sexual Exploitation: A Critical Discourse Analysis; Margaret Melrose 2. Drifting into Trouble: Sexual Exploitation and Gang Affiliation; John Pitts 3. 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 4. A Social Model of Abused Consent; Jenny Pearce 5. Looked After Young People and CSE: A View from Northern Ireland; Helen Beckett 6. Young People, Trafficking and Sexual Exploitation:A View from Scotland; Isabelle Brodie 7. Missing from Discourse: South Asian Young:Women and Sexual Exploitation; Nicola Sharp 8. Partners in Care? Sexually Exploited Young People's Inclusion and Exclusion from Safeguarding; Camille Warrington 9. Constructs of Safety for Children in Care Affected by Sexual Exploitation; Lucie Shuker 10. Intersections in 'Trafficking' and 'Child Sexual Exploitation' Policy; Lorena Arocha 11. Trafficking of Children and Young People: Community Knowledge and Understandings; Patricia Hynes 12. Conclusion; Jenny Pearce and Margaret Melrose

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