RT Article
T1 Child trafficking: young people’s experiences of front-line services in England
JF The British journal of criminology
VO 59
IS 2
SP 481
OP 500
A1 Gearon, Alinka
LA English
YR 2019
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1590310527
AB This article reports findings from an innovative qualitative study with 20 young people who were trafficked into and within England and their experiences of front-line services. In practice, concepts of consent and coercion are problematized as inadequate determinants of child trafficking. Young people reported experiencing front-line practice as victim-blaming and punitive. The findings demonstrate that young people require a more welfare-orientated response, based upon being listened to, believed and with greater action taken to protect them from further harm. They extend policy debates by providing fresh insights into children’s experiences of trafficking and services, hitherto omitted. The findings support the depoliticizing of child trafficking policy, away from a criminal justice approach, and abandoning labelling children as ‘smuggled’ and ‘trafficked’.
K1 Child trafficking
K1 Child protection policy
K1 Smuggling
K1 Trafficking
K1 Modern slavery
K1 Kinderhandel
K1 Kinderschutz
K1 Kinderschutzprogramm
DO 10.1093/bjc/azy042