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Jane Reeves

Kent University

Jane Reeves is an Emeritus Professor in teaching-learning and innovation at the Centre for Child Protection and was one of the founding Directors of the Centre. She is a qualified social worker. As a Co-Director of CCP she worked with many stakeholders to co-write immersive simulations that tackle complex child protection issues including sexual abuse (‘Rosie 1’); neglect (‘Rosie 2’); radicalization and extremism (‘Zak’; ‘Behind Closed Doors’); paedophilia (‘Elliot’); child sexual exploitation (‘Looking out for Lottie’); and ‘Rosie goes to court’. The simulations are widely used across the UK and internationally by professionals and young people. She has led innovative projects funded by the DfE and Innovate UK and has worked on an Erasmus project with the University of Stirling, protecting children across Europe through modernising the social work curriculum. She is currently leading a global EVAC Project on online sexual exploitation and trafficking which is designing a serious digital game for children and young people in Thailand and Cambodia.

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Latest work with IntechOpen by Jane Reeves

This edited volume, Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking, is a collection of reviewed and relevant research chapters, offering a comprehensive overview of recent developments in the field of modern slavery and human trafficking. The book comprises single chapters authored by various researchers and edited by an expert active in the aforementioned research area. Each chapter is complete in itself but united under a common research study topic. This publication aims at providing a thorough overview of the latest research efforts by international authors on modern slavery and human trafficking, and opening new possible research paths for further novel developments.

Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking Edited by Jane Reeves

Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking

Edited by Jane Reeves

Chapters authored

Children and Young People’s Vulnerabilities to Grooming

By Jane Reeves, Emma Soutar, Sally Green and Tracy Crowther

Child abuse is evolving, pervasive and complex and children are vulnerable to its widespread reach in many aspects of their lives, from face-to-face interactions to those they have online. This chapter aims to review contemporary literature which outlines the vulnerabilities of children to face-to-face and online grooming as part of a process leading to child abuse and exploitation. The chapter will undertake a review of literature on two aspects of grooming: child sexual exploitation (CSE) and radicalisation. It will draw on contemporary case examples to illustrate grooming drawn from UK Serious Case Reviews (SCR) on CSE and, on radicalisation, the case of the three girls from Bethnal Green who were groomed for travel to Syria. It will then reflect on the push and pull factors of grooming to highlight the similarities between CSE and radicalisation. Moving on, the chapter will then consider how and if interactive social media simulations, linked to an innovative, preventative educational approach and designed with reference to Vygotsky’s social construction theory, have the potential to educate young people to help protect them from being groomed. The chapter will then make reference to the findings of a small pilot study which evaluated the use of this approach with young people.

Part of the book: Contemporary Perspective on Child Psychology and Education

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