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CECA Interview
The Childhood Experience of Care and Abuse (CECA) interview is a retrospective measure of childhood and adolescent experience. It has been developed by the team at Lifespan Research Group to investigate lifetime risk factors for mental health disorders.

Institute of Social Science
A newly formed institute based at Kingston University, London, with the aims of raising the profile of social science nationally, support collaborative research and postgraduate study in the social sciences, and form a network of social scientists both inside and outside Kingston University.

School of Social Sciences, Kingston University
The School of Social Sciences is a highly-rated and dynamic centre for teaching and research across the social sciences, in sociology, politics, psychology, history, criminology, human rights and international studies.

Interprofessional Institute (Health and Social Care)
The Interprofessional Institute (IPI) provides the focus for leading interprofessional developments in practice, education and research generated by the Alliance's partners within the broad field of health and social care.

International Perspectives on Child Victimisation
By Julia Davidson and Christopher Hamerton

International Perspectives on Child Victimisation offers a comprehensive overview of the established themes and emergent debates relating to the abuse and victimisation of children. Highlighting key areas of global concern, and illustrated with detailed case studies of important developments, Julia Davidson and Christopher Hamerton address child abuse, child poverty, child exploitation, child prostitution, and child imprisonment within the context of children's rights, and international legal and policy issues. Their focus in this regard is on the ‘place’ of the child in the context of current victimology and social justice discourses, as they explore the social, cultural, and political context of international child victimisation. A solid introduction to child victimisation for both undergraduate and postgraduate audiences, this book will also appeal to practitioners and policy-makers engaged in child protection and intervention.

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Online groomers - Profiling, policing and prevention
By Julia Davidson and Petter Gottschalk

The Internet has greatly facilitated the ways in which paedophiles can groom children and young people. This important book offers numerous new insights and, in the process, provides a sound conceptual approach to understanding continuing developments in issues such as characteristics of the Internet and how these are explored and exploited by sexual offenders to groom their victims, legislation against online grooming, the conviction and treatment of offenders… read more

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Child Sexual Abuse: Media Representation and Government Reactions
By Julia Davidson

A critical overview of government policy on the management and treatment of convicted child sexual abusers. Including original research exploring abusers accounts of their offending behaviour and child protection practitioners reflections on their practice.

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