RT Article
T1 Working with and Negotiating ‘Risk': Examining the Effects of Awareness Raising Interventions Designed to Prevent Child Sexual Exploitation
JF The British journal of criminology
VO 60
IS 2
SP 323
OP 342
A1 Weston, Samantha K.
A2 Mythen, Gabe
LA English
YR 2020
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/169287831X
AB  This article considers the effects of an educational intervention with young people designed to reduce the risk of child sexual exploitation (CSE). Drawing on findings from a qualitative study, we consider processes of engagement with the initiative, the relevance of the strategy adopted by the delivery team and the impacts on the perspectives of young people targeted. Focusing on mutually constitutive problems of context sensitivity, recognition of ambiguity and the silencing of alternative narratives, we raise several critical caveats that should be considered in the design and implementation of future CSE awareness raising initiatives. Overall, we aver that an unstinting focus on individual behaviour management unduly responsibilizes young people and draws inflexible demarcation lines between appropriate and inappropriate sexual conduct.
K1 Child sexual exploitation
K1 Risk prevention
K1 Young people
K1 Individualization
K1 Responibilization
DO 10.1093/bjc/azz045