Protecting Children From Child Sexual Grooming - The Notion of the Imperfect Victim

This book critically evaluates how and why social, cultural and gendered norms impact on a child's vulnerability and argues for a paradigm shift in our understanding of how grooming impacts on child vulnerability during the victimisation process.

List of contents

1, Introduction to the Phenomenon of Child Sexual Grooming, 2. The Manifesting Nature of Child Sexual Grooming: Group Localised Grooming and the ‘Imperfect’ Victim, 3. Legal (Mis)Constructions of Risk and Harm, 4. Childhood Innocence and Deviance: the Irrelevance of Age and Willingness in the Context of Grooming, 5. The ‘Ideal’ Victim of Child Sexual Grooming: Enabling Prosecution, 6. Child Protection and the UNCRC: A Children’s Rights Based Approach, 7. Concluding Remarks: Going Beyond the Aim of the Sexual Offences Act 2003

Summary

This book critically evaluates how and why social, cultural and gendered norms impact on a child’s vulnerability and argues for a paradigm shift in our understanding of how grooming impacts on child vulnerability during the victimisation process.

Product details

• Authors: Jamie-Lee Mooney, Jamie-Lee (Liverpool University Mooney, Mooney Jamie-Lee
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 31.07.2019, delayed
• EAN: 9780415374453
• ISBN: 978-0-415-37445-3
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Victims, Culture and Society; Victims, Culture and Society
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, Family Law, Child welfare, Crime and criminology, Crime & criminology, Child welfare and youth services