Addressing the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children in Brazil.

解决巴西对儿童的商业性剥削问题。

• 批准号: AH/V01336X/1
• 负责人: Ben Brewster
• 金额: $ 17.43万
• 依托单位: University of Nottingham
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2021 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FV01336X%2F1
• 关键词: Addressing; Commercial; Sexual; Exploitation; Children

Commercial sexual exploitation of children (CSEC) is a major and widely neglected problem in Brazil. Emerging evidence indicates that increasing numbers of children are becoming victims of, or vulnerable to, this heinous criminal act as a result of Brazil's economic crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic. Yet, existing policy responses have demonstrated limited success in effectively tackling the problem, particularly in this crisis context. There is a lack of robust evidence of what works to support effective policy development, and survivor voices and perspectives have been notably absent from these processes. However, there is currently a narrow window of opportunity to address this problem comprehensively-and in a robust, evidence-based and survivor-informed manner-as a number of the key state and national plans that govern CSEC response in Brazil are due to be reformulated in the next 18 months. Our study will help fill knowledge gaps on CSEC in Brazil by drawing on rich narrative interviews with survivors and children at-risk, as well as semi-structured interviews with key informants from organisations working in protection and enforcement. The narratives of survivors and at-risk children will provide direct insights into experiences of referral and support, identifying survivors needs, gaps in provision, and survivors and children's own perspectives on how policy and practice should be reformed. This narrative analysis (adopting an approach based on ethical storytelling) allows survivors and children to control their own participation in the research, set the priorities and agenda for the conversation, and therefore shape findings and recommendations. Interviews will focus on eliciting experiences of working with, and within, the support infrastructure that exists in Brazil, helping to identify gaps between national and state policy, and realities on the ground. This primary data will be combined with law, policy, and structural review identifying current responses and gaps, as well as analysis of administrative and case data, for a multi-scalar interdisciplinary investigation of CSEC policy and practice. Brought together, this data will help to provide a more complete and nuanced view of the dynamics of CSEC, continued evolutions to offending patterns, and gaps in state and national responses, and their implementation. The project will provide the evidence and guidance needed for rapid, evidence-based and survivor-centred revisions to policy and safeguarding of children from CSEC in Brazil, that represent the context and integrity of lived experience, to provide the basis for more effective national and state-level CSEC responses. Our research acknowledges that CSEC is influenced by exogenous shocks and environmental factors. COVID-19, the measures employed in response to the pandemic, and the long-term social and economic impacts have, and will likely continue to exacerbate this problem, having a huge impact on children's vulnerability to CSEC, and the general precarity of Brazil's most vulnerable communities, as well as the methods used to sexually exploit them. Brazil's economic crisis and political shifts have also substantially influenced CSEC vulnerabilities, dynamics, and responses. Yet, evidence on these changing dynamics is extremely limited. This research will therefore tackle the critical impacts of these exogenous shocks on CSEC, formulating victim assistance workflows, policy and practice guidance to help mitigate their adverse impacts and help protect Brazil's most vulnerable children.

对儿童的商业性剥削是巴西一个被广泛忽视的主要问题。新出现的证据表明，由于巴西的经济危机和COVID-19大流行，越来越多的儿童成为这种令人发指的犯罪行为的受害者或易受其害。然而，现有的政策应对措施在有效解决这一问题方面取得的成功有限，特别是在这场危机的背景下。缺乏强有力的证据表明哪些措施有助于有效地制定政策，这些进程中明显缺乏幸存者的声音和观点。然而，目前有一个狭窄的机会窗口，以全面解决这个问题，并在一个强大的，基于证据和幸存者知情的方式，作为一些关键的国家和国家计划，管理商业化性剥削的反应在巴西是由于在未来18个月内重新制定。我们的研究将有助于填补巴西对儿童商业化性剥削的知识空白，方法是利用对幸存者和高危儿童的丰富叙述式访谈，以及对从事保护和执法工作的组织的关键线人的半结构化访谈。幸存者和处境危险儿童的叙述将使人们直接了解转诊和支助的经验，确定幸存者的需要、提供方面的差距以及幸存者和儿童自己对应如何改革政策和做法的看法。这种叙事分析（采用基于讲道德故事的方法）使幸存者和儿童能够控制自己对研究的参与，确定对话的优先事项和议程，从而形成调查结果和建议。访谈将侧重于获取与巴西现有的支助基础设施合作的经验，帮助确定国家和州政策与当地现实之间的差距。这些主要数据将与法律，政策和结构审查相结合，以确定当前的对策和差距，以及对行政和案例数据的分析，对商业性剥削政策和做法进行多尺度跨学科调查。这些数据汇总在一起，将有助于更全面、更细致地了解对儿童商业化性剥削的动态、犯罪模式的不断演变、州和国家应对措施的差距及其执行情况。该项目将提供必要的证据和指导，以迅速、循证和以幸存者为中心修订政策，保护巴西儿童免受对儿童的商业性剥削，这代表了生活经验的背景和完整性，为国家和州一级更有效地应对对儿童的商业性剥削提供基础。我们的研究承认，CSEC受到外部冲击和环境因素的影响。COVID-19、为应对这一流行病而采取的措施以及长期的社会和经济影响已经并可能继续加剧这一问题，对儿童易受商业性剥削的脆弱性、巴西最脆弱社区的普遍不稳定性以及对他们进行性剥削的方法产生巨大影响。巴西的经济危机和政治变化也大大影响了对儿童商业化剥削的脆弱性、动态和应对措施。然而，关于这些变化动态的证据极其有限。因此，这项研究将解决这些外来冲击对商业性剥削的严重影响，制定受害者援助工作流程、政策和实践指南，以帮助减轻其不利影响，并帮助保护巴西最脆弱的儿童。