Children and Sexual-Based Online Harms

Tech-Smart Parenting

How to keep your kids happy and safe online

Catherine Knibbs

The essential new science-backed parenting guide to building healthy boundaries around technology and social media, from the leading cybertrauma expert and child psychotherapist, Catherine Knibbs. 'A must-read for the tech-anxious generation' Pete Etchells, psychologist and author of Unlocked: The Real Science of Screen Time 'An essential, expert (and overdue) guide for any parent worried about how tech is affecting their children, but wanting to rely on science instead of paranoia' – Dean Burnett, neuroscientist and author Should we ban screens? We are asking the wrong question – this is how we really keep our kids safe online. 'How much screen time is too much?' 'Could my child become addicted to their smartphone?' 'Why does every rule I set start a battle?' Children today are growing up in a world more connected than ever before, exposing them to dangers their parents didn’t even imagine and raising questions they've never considered. But in our rush to protect them, we can do more harm than good; outright bans and rules deemed ‘unfair’ can push your child away, when what they need most of all is you. Child psychotherapist and cybertrauma expert Catherine Knibbs has helped hundreds of families work together to build healthy boundaries around technology. In this science-backed guide, Knibbs sets out what the evidence really says about the risks and where your fears may be misguided, to empower you with the answers to make the right decisions for your family. You'll discover: How screens affect every stage of childhood and where the dangers actually lie The importance of keeping your child close and onside to protect them, with scripts to help you communicate positively and set reasonable boundaries Realistic advice to keep your child safe and develop a balanced relationship with technology, within and out of the home Tips on protecting neurodivergent children and understanding how tech can help them flourish Grounded in evidence and full of relatable stories and practical tools, Tech-Smart Parenting is the essential book for any parent who wants to feel informed and confident in navigating the new digital childhood.

Children, Technology and Healthy Development

How to Help Kids be Safe and Thrive Online

Catherine Knibbs

How can adults keep children safe and healthy online now and in the future? How can we thrive alongside technology? This highly accessible book unpacks the latest psychological research, attachment theory and neurobiology to offer parents and professionals insight into how technology impacts children’s development and how to navigate our lives online. Catherine Knibbs shares her extensive experience to reveal what we know about human behaviour in cyberspace, and particularly that of children using devices, consoles and social media platforms. She offers deeper understanding of how and why children engage online and shows parents and professionals how, rather than being overwhelmed by the dangers and pathologies of cyberspace, we can learn to support children in using technology healthily. She covers key topics including social media use and abuse, impact of screen time, issues around gaming and extreme behaviours online. By the end of this book you will be able to understand your child better, and have an understanding of what is happening in their minds, brains and bodies in relation to the technological and digital world. Children, Technology and Healthy Development is for all parents, and professionals in psychology, education, social care and the police who are concerned with understanding how we support children in an online world. It will also be valuable reading for those in tech design interested in the impact of technology on the developing human.

Online Harms and Cybertrauma

Legal and Harmful Issues with Children and Young People

Catherine Knibbs

This vital, sensitive guide explains the serious issues children face online and how they are impacted by them on a developmental, neurological, social, mental health and wellbeing level. Covering technologies used by children aged two through to adulthood, it offers parents and professionals clear, evidence-based information about online harms and their effects and what they can do to support their child should they see, hear or bear witness to these events online. Catherine Knibbs, specialist advisor in the field, explains the issues involved when using online platforms and devices in family, social and educational settings. Examined in as non-traumatising a way as possible, the book covers key topics including cyberbullying; cyberstalking; pornography; online grooming; sexting; live streaming; vigilantism; suicide and self-harm; trolling and e-harassment; bantz, doxing and social media hacking; dares, trends and life-threatening activities; information and misinformation; and psychological games. It also explores the complex overlap of offline and online worlds in children and young people’s lives. Offering guidance and proactive and reactive strategies based in neuroscience and child development, it reveals how e-safety is not one size fits all and must consider individual children’s and families’ vulnerabilities. Online Harms and Cybertrauma will equip professionals and parents with the knowledge to support their work and direct conversations about the online harms that children and young people face. It is essential reading for those training and working with children in psychological, educational and social work contexts, as well as parents, policy makers and those involved in development of online technologies.

Managing Your Gaming and Social Media Habits

From Science to Solutions

Catherine Knibbs

The influence of technology on hobbies and leisure time is quickly becoming a regular part of daily life, but how much do we really understand about how or why we’re using it, and its impact on our health? This easy-to-read guide is designed to provide all of the support needed to understand why we use technology the way we do, and how we can recognise when interventions are needed to help master our own technology use. Following an effective Q&A structure and offering a valuable ‘dip in and out’ approach, this book provides expert guidance on all the burning questions related to our technology use, with particular support for those struggling to regulate their own gaming and social media use. It focuses on the science and avoids scaremongering by simply addressing the bits you need to understand, what you can do about your behaviours, and how this can improve your productivity, mental health, sleep, and diet. Helping readers and their families take back control and feel better informed about the future use of technology in our everyday lives, this book is a must read for anyone wanting expert guidance on the issues that matter most.

Cybertrauma

Catherine Knibbs

A quick reference guide for parents, teachers and professionals with explanations on what can happen to children and young people in cyber space (Phones, The Internet and Games Consoles).This book reveals and describes the Neuroscience and Psychology behind how and why children can find themselves dealing with the issues detailed in this book.Catherine's experience of working with children and young people who encounter these issues and bring them into therapy/counselling has enabled her to write this comprehensive and handy guide.This is a must for any adult who wishes to understand the perils and pitfalls of the internet for children and young people and adults too.

Children and Sexual-based Online Harms

A Guide for Professionals

Catherine Knibbs

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Proceedings of the ASEAN Conference on Sexual Exploitation of Children (ACOSEC 2024)

Ahmad Sofian, Febby Mutiara Nelson, Rena Yulia, Yusuf Saefudin

This book is an open access. ECPAT Indonesia and Association of Criminal Law and Criminology Lecturer (ASPERHUPIKI) in collaborate with the Ministry of Women’s Empowerment and Child Protection Republic of Indonesia, ECPAT International, Center for Study and Child Protection, and Yayasan OUR Indonesia will organize ASEAN Conference on “the Prevention and Countermeasures for the Misuse of Financial Service Providers in Child Sexual Exploitation Crimes” that will be held August 7-8, 2024 in Bali. This event will deep dive into three topics: Misuse of financial service providers in crimes of sexual exploitation of children at the International and ASEAN Countries level Good practices of detecting and reporting suspected transaction related to child sexual exploitation crimes by involving financial service providers Strategy and potential for collaboration in engaging financial service providers to eradicate sexual exploitation of children Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse from Multi-Perspektive This conference will be the first conference in ASEAN that discusses deeply about the situation of misuse of financial service providers in sexual exploitation crimes. It will provide an important forum featuring expert speakers and participants from various stakeholders representing government, law enforcer, Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU), Financial Service Provider (including Financial Technology Company), International dan National NGO and UN Agency. This conference will produce a comprehensive report regarding the situation of misuse of financial service providers in sexual exploitation crimes and good practices, as well as strategic recommendations to eradicate sexual exploitation crimes through the involvement of financial service providers.

Discourse Approaches to Gender-Based Violence

Deconstructing Social Inequality Through Linguistic Inquiry

Laura Mercé, Sergio Maruenda-Bataller

This volume illustrates how the adoption of discourse approaches can cast light on the complex and often subtle ways in which gender-based violence (GBV) discursively operates. The focus is on careful theorisations and empirical contributions that foreground GVB as a human rights violation motivated by the gender of the targeted community. The chapters are premised on the belief that the hierarchical social arrangements that are inherent to GVB are symbolically realised through language use. While resonating with previous feminist discourse scholarship, the book explicitly focuses on the theme of GVB. It intends to be a valuable resource for language and gender researchers, and for organisations willing to prevent and respond to GVB.

The Routledge International Handbook of Gender-Based Violence Research

Carolina Borda-Niño-Wildman

This essential handbook provides researchers, educators and policymakers with the tools and critical reflections needed to navigate the complexities of GBV research, from conceptualisation and fieldwork to dissemination and impact. Carefully curated essays from leading scholars and practitioners in the field examine the interconnected epistemological, methodological, and ethical dimensions of GBV research. They offer new perspectives on how researchers formulate, design, and conduct research in changing knowledge production landscapes. Through global research experiences, the handbook explores not only the critical questions researchers face, but also the innovative strategies they employ in this complex field of enquiry. Key topics covered include: intersectional perspectives on neurodiversity and power relations in academic research; GBV in the context of debates around the concept of gender; GBV as an analytical tool and as an observable phenomenon; the challenges and opportunities of conducting feminist research on GBV; epistemological violences and the study of GBV against transgender-identified people; GBV in university contexts and the triple roles researchers face as teachers and providers of pastoral support; feminist research ethics; methodological designs to explore silence in GBV; the dilemmas of perpetrators’ participation in research; the use of digital media as a way to conduct and trace GBV in ever more online social interactions; the use of quantitative methods and its challenges to shed light on historically ignored forms of GBV; the practical and analytical implications of conducting international surveys and within larger policy and advocacy strategies; explorations on the use of arts in research, from music elicitation to Butoh dance; intersectionality in fieldwork practices; the problematisation of taken-for-granted GBV concepts; participatory and collaborative research methods, ethics and analytical frameworks; the policy and advocacy uses of research and its dilemmas in third-sector organisations; and the use of social theory as an analytical and practice-based transformative tool. The Routledge International Handbook of Gender-Based Violence Research is a landmark resource for graduate students, scholars, applied researchers and policy practitioners critically engaging with the nexus of epistemology, methodology, and ethics in research and more specifically in the study of gender, violence, and social inequality.

Child Exploitation and Communication Technologies

Alisdair Gillespie

New communication technology can help abusers gain access to children. It can allow groups of abusers to communicate with and incite one another. It can allow them to plan and undertake their abuse in new ways. At the same time, its apparent cover of anonymity can cause children to unwittingly, knowingly or naively put themselves at greater risk. Most of us are aware of some of these problems. But are we aware enough of how the various types of abuse happen, why they happen, and how perpetrators can be identified and prosecuted under law?This book gives a conceptual understanding of new technologies, new laws and new court decisions; and provides insights into a range of sexually abusive behaviours that both evolve and stay distressingly the same. It can help: those who work and study in law and criminology; those involved with safeguarding children; those providing therapeutic responses to both perpetrators and those impacted by their abuse; and, those in IT industries who want to assist their efforts. It explores offending behaviour of adults. Each behavioural type is given a distinct chapter, and common themes are drawn out, including - inappropriate adult response to being tempted by the behaviour exhibited by certain teenagers, exploiting teenagers' vulnerability, and seeking to turn their experimentation into inappropriate sexual contact. It examines the behaviour of children and young people. This can include distributing personal sexual images to a 'sweetheart'; acts of self-exploitation such as posting indecent images of themselves, perhaps when 'dared', or providing images of themselves when financially enticed; cyber-bullying, harassment; and sexually inappropriate behaviour by children themselves, such as the filming of non-consensual sexual attacks, passing on inappropriate images received, or seeking out sexual images of younger children. It also explores issues of identity: how and why people create different identities there, and how and why some people are taken in, or perhaps naively go along; technology-specific behaviours including those involving: the world-wide web, email, chatrooms (including Internet Relay Chat (IRC)), peer-to-peer systems, short messaging system (SMS) - aka 'text messages', instant messenger, and 3G technology. Brief introductions to each of these technologies allow anyone unfamiliar with technological development to gain enough understanding to see how each technology can be used to facilitate the abuse of children. This book presents social and corporate responses: how the pressure to improve technology and get the next uses 'out there' does not always appear to involve the same attention being given to social responsibility; and how corporate responsibility can strive to ensure that the virtual world is safe for children. It also exxamines legal and judicial responses: how the law makes distinctions between different behaviours, how it applies in different contexts, and why different risk and understanding of risk can result in adoption of sometimes absolute limits and sometimes more dynamic ones.

Child Abuse

Betraying a Trust

Unknown author

Presents facts, tables, charts, and statistics on several aspects of child abuse in the U.S.