Children as 'Risk' - Sexual Exploitation and Abuse by Children and Young People. By A.-M. McAlinden (Cambridge University Press, 2018, 372 pp. £ 85.00)
Children as 'Risk' - Sexual Exploitation and Abuse by Children and Young People. By A.-M. McAlinden (Cambridge University Press, 2018, 372 pp. £ 85.00)
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儿童作为“风险”——儿童和青少年的性剥削和性虐待。
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10.1093/bjc/azz002
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在某些方面，我的不安得到了证明。在《儿童为危险》一书中讨论的行为在社会和文化上都是禁忌，接触(如不想要的触摸和渗透)和非接触活动(如打扮、暴露癖、窥视癖、性短信和网络欺凌)都受到关注。然而，从各个方面看，我的不安似乎都被安妮-玛丽·麦卡林登预料到了，她显然写了《儿童作为风险》一书，挑战读者的假设，特别是那些在新自由主义社会中运作的读者，在社会政治上，他们被构建为掠夺性的、危险的成年男性陌生人。这本书之所以让人难以阅读，是因为它揭示了那些被刻板印象为“脆弱”和“被动”的人所犯下的虐待行为。然而，正是作者提出的精致、原创、发人深省和概念精炼的叙事使它成为必读之作。这并不出人意料。麦卡林登是一位屡获殊荣的国际知名学者，他研究针对儿童的性侵犯已有20年之久。《作为风险的儿童》是她的第三本专著，书中充满了自信和老练，这是他们所在领域的专家的标志。作为一名读者，你会在麦卡林登的领域里感到舒服，确保她会引导你完成她的论点，而不是诉诸耸人听闻的例子，并通过展示对努力减少日常虐待儿童的实践者的尊重。麦卡林登这本新书的总体目标是“批判性地审视当代流行的国家主导的关于儿童和年轻人的风险概念，这些儿童和年轻人表现出有害的性行为或剥削行为”(第5页)。为了达到这一目的，McAlinden不仅参考了法律、社会法律、犯罪学、社会学和心理学文献，还引用了对北爱尔兰HSB患者或受HSB影响的儿童和年轻人进行的32次深入采访的主要数据，以说明她的理论和政策论点。值得注意的是，没有对儿童或其家人进行面谈，理由是这样做可能会给受害者造成进一步的精神创伤。鉴于这本书的长度(372页)和
In some ways, my unease was vindicated. The behaviours discussed in Children as Risk are socially and culturally taboo, with both contact (such as unwanted touching and penetration) and non-contact activity (such as grooming, exhibitionism, voyeurism, sexting and cyberbullying) receiving attention. Yet, in every way it would seem that my unease was anticipated by Anne-Marie McAlinden, who has evidently written Children as Risk to challenge the assumptions held by readers, particularly those operating in neoliberal societies whereby ‘the paedophile’has been socio-politically constructed as the predatory and dangerous adult male stranger. It is the shedding of light on the abuse being committed by those stereotypically held to be ‘vulnerable’and ‘passive’that makes this book difficult to read. Nonetheless, it is the delicate, original, thoughtprovoking and conceptually refined narrative presented by the author that makes it a must-read. This is hardly unexpected. McAlinden is an award-winning and internationally renowned academic who has been researching sexual offending against children for two decades. Children as Risk is her third monograph and is written with the confidence and sophistication that is the hallmark of an expert in their field. As a reader, you feel comfortable feeling uncomfortable in McAlinden’s domain, assured that she will navigate you through her argument without resorting to sensationalist examples and by demonstrating respect for practitioners striving to reduce child abuse on a daily basis. The overall aim of McAlinden’s new book is to ‘critically examine contemporary and popular state-led conceptions of risk concerning children and young people who display harmful sexual or exploitative behaviour’(p. 5). To meet this aim, McAlinden not only draws on legal, socio-legal, criminological, sociological and psychological literature, but also illustrates her theoretical and policy arguments by citing primary data derived from 32 in-depth interviews with professionals who work with children and young people displaying or affected by HSB in Northern Ireland. Notably, interviews were not conducted with children or their families on the grounds that this would risk further traumatization of victims. Given the length of this book (372 pages) and the