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 the Senior Research Scientist and the Research Division Lead in the Texas Juvenile Crime Prevention Center at Prairie View A&M University.
Anna Bussu is a Senior Lecturer in Criminal Justice at Edge Hill University, UK, and Co-Director of the Centre for Applied Criminal Justice and Policing Research.
