Grooming and the ‘Asian sex gang predator’: the construction of a racial crime threat
Grooming and the ‘Asian sex gang predator’: the construction of a racial crime threat
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诱骗和“亚洲性犯罪团伙掠夺者”：种族犯罪威胁的构建
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2013
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E. Cockbain
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继英国主流报纸声称发现了“街头诱骗”这一新的犯罪威胁后，围绕英国所谓的“亚洲性帮派”问题展开了广泛而激动人心的辩论。本文探讨了新的种族犯罪威胁的构建，评估其基础的有效性并探讨其可能的原因和后果。诱骗被证明是一个可疑的类别，不是一种独特的犯罪行为，而是更普遍的儿童性剥削的一个不明确的子集。这篇文章强调了诱骗言论中的根本紧张关系，表明有关独特种族犯罪威胁的说法是没有根据的，但相对于总人口而言，在迄今为止发现的涉嫌儿童性剥削者中，亚洲人所占比例过高。人们对当前对诱骗和“亚洲性帮派”的痴迷所产生的影响进行了研究，结果表明，这会进一步推动政治议程并使几乎不加掩饰的种族主义合法化，最终给受害者带来伤害。文章最后呼吁转变迄今为止主导性话语的全面、毫无根据的概括，转向围绕儿童性剥削进行开放和冷静的讨论，包括但不限于审查种族与犯罪之间的关系。
Following a mainstream British newspaper’s claim to have uncovered a new crime threat of ‘on-street grooming’, extensive and emotive debate continues around the so-called ‘Asian sex gang’ problem in the UK. This article examines the construction of a new racial crime threat, assessing the validity of its foundations and exploring its possible causes and consequences. Grooming is shown to be a dubious category, not a distinct offence but an ill-defined subset of child sexual exploitation more generally. The article highlights a fundamental tension in the grooming discourse, showing that claims of a uniquely racial crime threat are ill founded but that Asians have been overrepresented, relative to the general population, among suspected child sexual exploiters identified to date. The implications of the current fixation with grooming and ‘Asian sex gangs’ are examined and shown to further a political agendum and legitimise thinly veiled racism, ultimately doing victims a disservice. The article concludes by calling for a shift from the sweeping, ill-founded generalisations driving dominant discourse to date, towards open and level-headed discussions around child sexual exploitation, including but not limited to, examining relationships between race and offending.