Jenny Pearce, OBE, is a Professor of Young People and Public Policy at the University of Bedfordshire.

Foreword ~ Julia Davidson
Bringing theory home: thinking about child sexual exploitation ~ Jenny Pearce
Moving beyond discourses of agency, gain and blame: reconceptualising young people's experiences of sexual exploitation ~ Helen Beckett
Child sexual exploitation, discourse analysis and why we still need to talk about prostitution ~ Jo Phoenix
Contextual Safeguarding: theorising the contexts of child protection and peer abuse ~ Carlene Firmin
'Losing track of morality': understanding online forces and dynamics conducive to child sexual exploitation ~ Elly Hanson
Understanding adolescent development in the context of child sexual exploitation ~ John Coleman
Some psychodynamic understandings of child sexual exploitation ~ Nick Luxmoore
Understanding trauma and its relevance to child sexual exploitation ~ Kristine Hickle
Social support, empathy and ecology: a theoretical underpinning for working with young people who have suffered child sexual abuse or exploitation ~ Pat Dolan and Caroline McGregor
Using an intersectional lens to examine the child sexual exploitation of black adolescents ~ Claudia Bernard
What's gender got to do with it? Sexual exploitation of children as patriarchal violence ~ Maddy Coy
Understanding models of disability to improve responses to children with learning disabilities ~ Emilie Smeaton
Some concluding thoughts ~ Jenny Pearce