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    Moving beyond discourses of agency, gain and blame: reconceptualising young people’s experiences of sexual exploitation

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    Authors
    Beckett, Helen
    Issue Date
    2019-01-01
    Subjects
    child sexual exploitation
    
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    Child Sexual Exploitation: Why Theory Matters
    Abstract
    This chapter explores the relationship between victimhood and agency, and the unhelpful binary ways in which it has often been conceptualised within child sexual exploitation (CSE) discourse and practice to date. It observes how adherence to dichotomous conceptualisations of those experiencing CSE, and associated narrow understandings of CSE victimhood, have served to diminish our responses to particular populations and particular manifestations of harm; namely those typified by any degree of observable agency on the part of the child. Here, reframing young people's experiences of CSE through the lens of structuration theory offers a much-needed way to move us beyond the observable simplistic binary conceptualisations of victimhood versus agency. It helps us to better understand and respond to the widely variable and complex dynamics and contexts of CSE. Specifically, reconceptualising young people as ‘reflexive agents’ operating within a ‘structure of constraint’ offers us a means of concurrently recognising the range of biographical and contextual factors at play in any given situation, and allows us to move beyond exclusionary ‘idealised’ victim-based patterns of identification and response.
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    Beckett H (2019) ' Moving beyond discourses of agency, gain and blame: reconceptualising young people’s experiences of sexual exploitation', in Pearce J (ed(s).). Child Sexual Exploitation: Why Theory Matters, edn, Bristol: Policy Press pp.23-42.
    Publisher
    Policy Press
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10547/624704
    DOI
    10.1332/policypress/9781447351412.003.0002
    Additional Links
    https://www.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1332/policypress/9781447351412.001.0001/upso-9781447351412-chapter-002
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    Book chapter
    Language
    en
    ISBN
    9781447351412
    ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
    10.1332/policypress/9781447351412.003.0002
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