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Safeguarding, Young People and Gangs
Safeguarding, Young People and Gangs, Isabelle Brodie explores how safeguarding policy and practice have been applied, and not applied, to the issue...
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Adults in the Brazilian Prison System
Brazil has the world’s third-largest population of incarcerated adults, and this text seeks to provide an overview of prisons in that country. With...
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Teen Sexting: A Modern, Cultural Phenomenon? Or Not So New?
While there are some who might view teen sexting as a modern, digital phenomenon, and therefore a new challenge to policing and legislation, we argue...
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Criminal and Sexual Exploitation in County Lines: Voices from Affected Communities
Voices from gang-affected communities, Paul Andell observes that although, as the Children’s Society Look Closer campaign, (2021) notes, everyone has...
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Shortfalls of the Bioethical Approach to COVID-19: Vaccine Hesitancy, the Right to Choose and Public Health Management in Canada
While majoritarian groups were comfortable with vaccination in Canada, a stable minority protested these directives to protect their right to choose...
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Using Ex-Gang Members as Peer Youth Workers
Using peer mentors in work with gang members, Junior Smart draws on a qualitative study which explored the experiences of those practically involved...
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Introduction
The introductory chapter discusses the origins of the book, which is based on the findings of a nine-month ethnographic case study of Hydebank Wood...
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The role of helplines in the anti-trafficking space: examining contacts to a major ‘modern slavery’ hotline
Although increasingly deployed worldwide, human trafficking hotlines are sorely under-researched. Situated within a complex systems framework, we...
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Supporters and Advocates
Providing key contributions during the rape criminal justice journeys, this chapter introduces the key roles of practitioner supporters, advocates...
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Addressing Harmful Sexual Behaviours Among Children and Young People: Definitional and Regulatory Tensions
In recent years, concerns associated with harmful sexual behaviour (HSB) among children and young people have featured prominently in child...
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Supporting Young Women Affected by Gang Association and County Lines
In this chapter, Supporting Young Women Affected by Gang Association and County Lines, Fiona Factor & Abi Billinghurst outline the political and...
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Legal Challenges
One of the fundamental challenges in policing teen sexting lies in the efficacy of legislation developed for one purpose now being applied to...
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Map** Paths to Family Justice: Resolving Family Disputes Involving Children in Neoliberal Times
Using interviews with various families and mediators/lawyers involved in three types of out-of-court procedures in England and Wales, this...
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A Progressive Future?
Based upon evidence presented through many years of research, we argue that it is time to try something different and develop policing interventions...
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County Lines: Dealing in Vulnerability
In this chapter, County Lines: Dealing in Vulnerability, Simon Harding observes that from 2014/2015, onwards County Lines networks adopted different...
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Politics, Policies, and Practices of Vulnerable People Policing
The ‘wicked issue’ (Fleming and Wood 2008) of vulnerability in policing has shaped policing approaches for far longer than there has been policies...
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Paladin National Stalking Advocacy Service: Supporting and Engaging Young People
Paladin NSAS with support from The Tudor Trust developed the first young people’s stalking specific service, in England and Wales, in 2018. This...
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Digital Defence in the Classroom: Develo** Feminist School Guidance on Online Sexual Harassment for Under 18s
Drawing from semi-structured interviews with seven safeguarding leads, focus groups and quantitative surveys with 480 young people aged 13–18,...
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Child First: Thinking Through the Implications for Policy and Practice
The chapter is divided into two sections: the first considers the significance of reconceptualising children who break the law as children first...
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Diffusion and Translation of the Barnahus Model Through the Lens of Institutional Tensions
Since the Barnahus model was first introduced in Iceland in 1998, it has spread to a number of European countries, both within and beyond the Nordic...