Child sexual exploitation and youth offending: A research note

Cockbain, Ella; Brayley, Helen

doi:10.1177/1477370812453401

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“…Many of our findings resonate with previous research in which associations have been documented qualitatively and to a lesser extent quantitatively between CSE and youth offending, going missing and being in care (e.g., Beckett, 2011;Brayley and Cockbain, 2012;CEOP, 2011;Clutton and Coles, 2007;Jago et al, 2011;OCCE, 2012;Pearce, Williams & Galvin, 2003;Scott and Skidmore, 2006). In what appears to be an isolated example of prior research covering CSE referral pathways in the UK,…”

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confidence: 89%

“…Furthermore, 10% of male and 4% of female service users were suspected of being involved in knife or gun crime (among the 46% of cases of which this information was known). These results corresponded with our expectations due to their close parallels to findings from Cockbain and Brayley's (2012) localised study. They found that 48% (n=53) of male and 35% (n=158) of female CSE service users in an English city, Derby, had criminal records.…”

Section: Youth Offendingsupporting

confidence: 93%

“…Although we had no information about the nature of the offences for which children in our sample had criminal records, we caution against assuming these would be related necessarily or particularly to sexually harmful behaviour. To this point, Cockbain and Brayley (2012) reported that just 1% all recorded offences for their sample were sexual, in line with the proportion for recorded youth crime in England and Wales at large.…”

Section: Youth Offendingmentioning

confidence: 67%

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Immaterial Boys? A Large-Scale Exploration of Gender-Based Differences in Child Sexual Exploitation Service Users

2015

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Child sexual exploitation is increasingly recognised nationally and internationally as a pressing child protection, crime prevention and public health issue. In the UK, for example, a recent series of highprofile cases has fuelled pressure on policy-makers and practitioners to improve responses. Yet, prevailing discourse, research and interventions around child sexual exploitation have focused overwhelmingly on female victims. This study was designed to help redress fundamental knowledge gaps around boys affected by sexual exploitation. This was achieved through rigorous quantitative analysis of individual-level data for 9,042 users of child sexual exploitation services in the UK. One third of the sample was male and gender was associated with statistically significant differences on many variables. The results of this exploratory study highlight the need for further targeted research and more nuanced and inclusive counter-strategies.

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“…The CSE service does not. What we see is that items involving violent, destructive and/or potentially offending behaviour are present only in assessments for HSB cases, despite research suggesting that children and young people who experience or are vulnerable to CSE may display similar behaviours (Cockbain and Brayley, ). That this is embedded in the HSB recording, but not the CSE recording, may evidence a generalised focus on HSB as being part of a pattern of risk (to others), compared to a view of CSE as part of a pattern of vulnerability.…”

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confidence: 64%

The Same but Different? Exploring the Links between Gender, Trauma, Sexual Exploitation and Harmful Sexual Behaviours

2019

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This article presents data on 1550 children and young people with experiences of child sexual exploitation or who are displaying harmful sexual behaviours (HSB). Data were collected from two recently merged services operating across Wales: one working with children and young people who are at risk of, or abused through, sexual exploitation; and the other providing assessment and intervention services for children and young people displaying HSB. Importantly, the research provided an opportunity for a comparative analysis of key demographic characteristics and abuse histories of two separate cohorts of children and young people. Clear differences exist across the two cohorts in terms of gender. However, our analysis revealed similar patterns in relation to their experiences of prior abuse, and the prevalence of a family history of domestic violence is near identical. We consider how these findings speak to a need to understand the role of gender, and to recognise potential gendered understandings and gendered trajectories of harm for children. Findings also indicate the importance of directing attention to the wellbeing needs of children and young people who have experienced trauma, regardless of the presenting issues of concern. Key Practitioner Messages CSE and HSB are different welfare concerns, but the children and young people referred to services for CSE and HSB may have similarly high levels of similar past trauma. There is a need for a greater understanding of how behavioural responses to trauma can be different for boys and girls, and may lead to different risk trajectories. Practitioners should be encouraged to be reflexive about their assumptions of sexual norms and behaviours among children, particularly in relation to gender and their ideas about vulnerability and risk. Practice with children and young people would benefit from recognising and responding to trauma experiences, and also from directing attention to the specific wellbeing needs of individual children and young people, regardless of the presenting areas of concern, that is, CSE or HSB (and gender). Assessment data collected should also reflect the backgrounds, needs and strengths of these children and young people, addressing the underlying issues behind potential vulnerability and harms, and not simply the risks that children and young people may pose or in which they may engage.

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“…Sharpe (2012:62), for example, through interviews with 52 young women involved in the CJS in the UK, makes connections between girls' experiences of family conflict and convictions for 'offending' at home. On top of this, girls who offend often grow up in neighbourhoods with few prosocial peers and opportunities (Sharpe, 2012), leading them to join friendship groups where offending is normalised (Jo and Chesney-Lind, 1998;Sharpe, 2012) and to form 'relationships' with partners who exploit them (Cockbain and Brayley, 2012). Given the context of their lives and 'polyvictimization' (DeHart and Moran, 2015), young women's offending is increasingly depicted in the research literature as 'normal' or a display of agency (Sharpe, 2012;Henriksen and Miller, 2012;Batchelor, 2005), as are their 'difficult' attitudes (Alder, 2000;Sharpe, 2012).…”

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The challenges for good practice in police-facilitated restorative justice for female offenders

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Schofield

Biggart³

2018

The International Journal Of Restorative Justice

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This article reports on the uses of police-led RJ for female offenders by one constabulary in England from 2007 to 2012. The study consisted of 1) quantitative analysis of administrative police data on 17,486 participants, including 2,586 female offenders, and 2) qualitative analysis of twelve narrative interviews with female offenders sampled from the database. Quantitative data demonstrated that the majority of female offenders committed low-level offences and that the majority of participants experienced street RJ. Female offenders reported mixed experiences with RJ in qualitative interviews. On the whole, women did not understand what RJ was, leading to complications as many felt their victims were mutually culpable. Some felt that the police forced them to apologise and treated them like criminals while others felt the police gave them a second chance. The study raises questions about what the police can bring to RJ in relation to vulnerable women.

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Child sexual exploitation and youth offending: A research note

Cited by 20 publications

References 3 publications

Immaterial Boys? A Large-Scale Exploration of Gender-Based Differences in Child Sexual Exploitation Service Users

Immaterial Boys? A Large-Scale Exploration of Gender-Based Differences in Child Sexual Exploitation Service Users

The Same but Different? Exploring the Links between Gender, Trauma, Sexual Exploitation and Harmful Sexual Behaviours

The challenges for good practice in police-facilitated restorative justice for female offenders

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