1st Edition
The Psychology of Child Criminal Exploitation From Initiation to Desistance
1.Introduction: Conceptualising Child Criminal Exploitation as a Dynamic and Relational Process. 2.Chapter 1: From Vulnerability to Exploitation: A Process-Oriented Framework for Early Child Criminal Exploitation. 3.Chapter 2: Co-offending roles, training, and progression through the ranks. 4.Chapter 3: Emotions and offending experiences. 5.Chapter 4: Self-Perception, Self-Awareness, and the Process of Child Criminal Exploitation. 6.Chapter 5: Pathways to desistance. 7.Conclusions: Towards a Process-Oriented Understanding of Child Criminal Exploitation.
Biography
Sally-Ann Ashton is an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society and is currently Director of the Center for Crime, Urban Research and Education (C-CURE) at the University of Houston-Downtown, Texas (US).
Anna Bussu is a Chartered Psychologist (CPsychol), Reader in Criminal Justice at Edge Hill University in the UK, and Co-Director of the Centre for Applied Criminal Justice and Policing Research.
