Crimes such as homicide and theft, and drugs such as heroin and cocaine have always been of public concern, and there has been a recent focus on areas such as child sexual abuse, modern slavery, new psychoactive substances, online fraud, and online indecent images of children.
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Globally, 95 million children become victims of physical, emotional and sexual child abuse every year. Child abuse has lifetime impacts including medical trauma, mental health distress, illness, school drop-out and unemp...
Funded by: ESRC
Lead research organisation: University of Edinburgh
The project aims to develop a child abuse measure for observation and evaluation, which can help improve outcomes for child abuse victims and survivors.
This project will undertake a collaborative knowledge exchange between the Centre for Child Protection (CCP) and Kent Police (KP). They will create, apply, and evaluate a pilot training tool to support police officers in...
Funded by: ESRC
Lead research organisation: University of Kent
The project focuses on creating a training tool for police officers to work with girls who have experienced child sexual exploitation, which is partially relevant to improving outcomes for victims and survivors.
There are no changes to the project scope:- The European Commission’s latest strategy for fighting child sexual abuse highlights a harsh reality that, globally, we are ‘losing the battle’ against online child sexual abu...
Funded by: Horizon Europe Guarantee
Lead research organisation: UNIVERSITY OF DERBY
The project addresses the support needs of Minor Attracted Persons (MAPs) to prevent child sexual abuse and exploitation, but does not directly improve outcomes for victims and survivors.