Interventions to reduce different types of child sexual abuse.

Background

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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Areas of research interest relevant to the Home Office GOVUK

Related UKRI funded projects

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    Funded by: Horizon Europe Guarantee

    Lead research organisation: UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND

    Why might this be relevant?

    The project focuses on preventing and protecting against child sexual abuse, addressing the needs of Minor Attracted Persons (MAPs) and providing support and guidance to prevent abuse.

  • 2PS - Prevent & Protect Through Support

    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 abuse and exploitation (OCSAE). Various projects...

    Funded by: Horizon Europe Guarantee

    Lead research organisation: SCOTTISH POLICE AUTHORITY

    Why might this be relevant?

    The project is relevant because it focuses on preventing and protecting children from sexual abuse and exploitation, which directly answers the question.

  • 2PS - Prevent & Protect Through Support

    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

    Why might this be relevant?

    The project addresses the issue of child sexual abuse and exploitation and aims to prevent and protect through support, which aligns with the question.

  • Child Sexual Exploitation and Girls: An Interactive Training Tool for Child Protection Professionals

    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

    Why might this be relevant?

    The project focuses on child sexual exploitation and the development of a training tool for police officers, which partially addresses the question.

  • Addressing the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children in Brazil.

    Commercial sexual exploitation of children (CSEC) is a major and widely neglected problem in Brazil. Emerging evidence indicates that increasing numbers of children are becoming victims of, or vulnerable to, this heinous...

    Funded by: GCRF

    Lead research organisation: University of Nottingham

  • Historicizing 'historical child sexual abuse' cases: social, political and criminal justice contexts

    The historical sexual abuse of children has become a central focal point of political, social and legal concern. On 7 July 2014 Home Secretary Theresa May announced a public inquiry into how complaints of sexual abuse ha...

    Funded by: ESRC

    Lead research organisation: University of Edinburgh

  • Child Protection in Pakistani Communities

    The eradication of child abuse is a global responsibility, and Unicef (2020) has called for the end of all forms of abuse towards children by 2030. Yet despite being a global challenge, there remains a dearth of research...

    Funded by: FLF

    Lead research organisation: University of Bradford

  • Evidence-based child abuse prevention: Developing measures for observation and evaluation in a global context

    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

  • Impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on criminal justice journeys of adult and child survivors of sexual abuse, rape, and sexual assault

    Over 150,000 sexual offences were recorded by the police in the year ending March 2020 (ONS, 2020), and there are indications that lockdown increased some sexual offences (e.g. online-facilitated abuse, sexual abuse perp...

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  • Do theory of mind, affective resonance with others' pain, and response inhibition distinguish online-only from contact child sexual offenders?

    This project will use a solution-focussed approach to identify the psychological processes that can be targeted to ensure that potential high risk groups, such as men who view online child sexual exploitation material, b...

    Funded by: ESRC

    Lead research organisation: University of Liverpool

    Why might this be relevant?

    This project specifically focuses on identifying psychological processes to reduce child sexual abuse, targeting potential high-risk groups.

Similar ARIs from other organisations

Risk management How can we better understand the dynamic risk factors for sexual reoffending and how they evolve over time? Particularly those identified via the Active Risk Management System (ARMS). Ministry of Justice, 2020
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