High-profile cases of Child Sexual Exploitation have brought the issue under the spotlight but have also resulted in a reactive approach to service development. This book makes the case for greater use of theoretical perspectives in the development and delivery of strategies in the UK and internationally, helping practitioners to properly understand how CSE arises and how to challenge this abuse.

Jenny Pearce, OBE, is a Professor of Young People and Public Policy at the University of Bedfordshire.

Foreword ~ Julia Davidson
Bringing theory home: thinking about child sexual exploitation ~ Jenny Pearce
Moving beyond discourses of agency, gain and blame: reconceptualising young people's experiences of sexual exploitation ~ Helen Beckett
Child sexual exploitation, discourse analysis and why we still need to talk about prostitution ~ Jo Phoenix
Contextual Safeguarding: theorising the contexts of child protection and peer abuse ~ Carlene Firmin
'Losing track of morality': understanding online forces and dynamics conducive to child sexual exploitation ~ Elly Hanson
Understanding adolescent development in the context of child sexual exploitation ~ John Coleman
Some psychodynamic understandings of child sexual exploitation ~ Nick Luxmoore
Understanding trauma and its relevance to child sexual exploitation ~ Kristine Hickle
Social support, empathy and ecology: a theoretical underpinning for working with young people who have suffered child sexual abuse or exploitation ~ Pat Dolan and Caroline McGregor
Using an intersectional lens to examine the child sexual exploitation of black adolescents ~ Claudia Bernard
What's gender got to do with it? Sexual exploitation of children as patriarchal violence ~ Maddy Coy
Understanding models of disability to improve responses to children with learning disabilities ~ Emilie Smeaton
Some concluding thoughts ~ Jenny Pearce