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This book considers the rapidly evolving, both legally and
socially, nature of image-based abuse, for both minors and adults.
Drawing mainly from UK data, legislation and case studies, it
presents a thesis that the law is, at best, struggling to keep up
with some fundamental issues around image based abuse, such as the
sexual nature of the crimes and the long term impact on victims,
and at worst, in the case of supporting minors, not fit for
purpose. It shows, through empirical and legislative analysis, that
the dearth of education around this topic, coupled with cultural
norms, creates a victim blaming culture that extends into
adulthood. It proposes both legislative developments and need for
wider stakeholder engagement to understand and support victims, and
the impact the non-consensual sharing of intimate images can have
on their long-term mental health and life in general. The book is
of interest to scholar of law, criminology, sociology, police and
socio-technical studies, and is also to those who practice law, law
enforcement or wider social care role in both child and adult
safeguarding.
This much-needed volume fills an overlooked gap in adult
safeguarding - the digital arena - in providing a comprehensive
overview of policy and practice in supporting vulnerable adults
online. Providing an essential analysis illustrated by recent court
rulings and case studies, the authors advocate for the effective
support of adults with learning disabilities and/or mental capacity
issues in their digital lives without compromising their privacy
and participation rights. The text balances a theoretical
exploration of the tensions between participation and protection,
legislation, human rights, professional biases and social wrongs.
It encourages a critical approach in adopting both a practical and
realistic understanding for policy makers, professionals and
students in social work, law and adult social care.
This much-needed volume fills an overlooked gap in adult
safeguarding - the digital arena - in providing a comprehensive
overview of policy and practice in supporting vulnerable adults
online. Providing an essential analysis illustrated by recent court
rulings and case studies, the authors advocate for the effective
support of adults with learning disabilities and/or mental capacity
issues in their digital lives without compromising their privacy
and participation rights. The text balances a theoretical
exploration of the tensions between participation and protection,
legislation, human rights, professional biases and social wrongs.
It encourages a critical approach in adopting both a practical and
realistic understanding for policy makers, professionals and
students in social work, law and adult social care.
Using the UK as a case study the book aims to provide a detailed
rationale for the tension between a policy perspective that tries
to provide protection for victims of such practices through
legislation and the need to better understand a phenomenon that
constantly evolves as a result of new technology, disruptive
adoption and social norms.
This book explores the policing response to teen sexting – the
digital exchange, both consensual and non-consensual, of intimate
images among youth peers. With a particular focus in England and
Wales, it also considers other international responses and the
challenges faced in policing youth practices with legislation being
applied beyond its intended scope. It uses the police responses in
England and Wales as a case study of the challenges of policy
evolving the digital cultural phenomenon and the tensions between
enforcing the law, while knowing it’s not fit for purpose,
and supporting vulnerable minors. It explores the policy
responses that have developed from the problematic legislation and
whether these policy interventions have helped or hindered the
policing process. It draws in parallels with drugs policy and
policing, and brings in progressive, harm reduction approaches in
contrast to traditional solutions.
This book explores, through a children's rights-based perspective,
the emergence of a safeguarding dystopia in child online protection
that has emerged from a tension between an over-reliance in
technical solutions and a lack of understanding around code and
algorithm capabilities. The text argues that a safeguarding
dystopia results in docile children, rather than safe ones, and
that we should stop seeing technology as the sole solution to
online safeguarding. The reader will, through reading this book,
gain a deeper understanding of the current policy arena in online
safeguarding, what causes children to beocme upset online, and the
doomed nature of safeguarding solutions. The book also features a
detailed analysis of issues surrounding content filtering, access
monitoring, surveillance, image recognition, and tracking. This
book is aimed at legal practitioners, law students, and those
interested in child safeguarding and technology.
This book explores the use of technology in young people's social
lives against a backdrop of "online safety measures" put in place
by the UK government to ensure safe and risk free engagement with
online services. The UK landscape is used as a case study to
compare the grass roots of digital behaviours with attempts by
policy makers to control access and prohibit "bad" behaviours. In
conducting an analysis of current UK policy positions and media
perspectives against ethnographic research in areas such as gaming
and sexting, the book highlights the flaws in approaching the
control of disruptive social behaviours using prohibitive
approaches. It also highlights the gulf between the experiences of
young people and the capabilities of the school system to deliver
effective education around safe online behaviours. The author
illustrates the complex relationship young people have with
technology, as active engagers rather than passive consumers, and
looks at the ways in which their needs for effective education and
resilience are currently not being met. Furthermore, he
demonstrates how, in an effort to make them safe, stakeholders are
eroding children's fundamental rights. Children's Online Behaviour
and Safety will be of interest to scholars, practitioners and
students researching and practicing in education, sociology,
children's law, children's digital rights and social policy.
This book explores the growing phenomenon of the social media storm
in the context of educational establishments. With a methodological
approach that draws on aspects of virtual and offline ethnography,
the text presents a series of case studies of public online
risk-related incidents. Our ethnographic methodology adopts the use
of unobtrusive data collection approaches, to explore publicly
available data from online interactive behaviours. Drawing on a
range of methods from internet mediated research (IMR) to inform
our ethnographic account, the book provides an in-depth exploration
of the public and organisational discourses arising from four
short, clear high-profile internet risk case studies in the
education sector ranging from early year to higher education. It
considers the social construction of a new 'risk' culture arising
computer-mediated social interactions and its impact on, and
response by, the organisations and society.
The digital world is a place where even the most informed parents
and teachers can feel one pace behind children. Bombarded with
scare stories about the risks of everyday Internet interactions for
young people, those caring for them are frequently left to navigate
online minefields more or less on their own. This book is here to
help. Two leading experts on digital childhoods, Dr Sandra Leaton
Gray and Professor Andy Phippen, explore the realities of growing
up online in the 21st century. They provide an informative and
accessible guide to the issues young people face today, based on
the latest research and scholarship. They also expose the many ways
the child safeguarding industry means well, but often gets things
very wrong. The authors explain the latest research on topics such
as biometrics, encryption, cyphertext and sexting, and analyse
their relevance to the next generation. They raise a number of key
questions about the contemporary lives of young people, including
their relationship with digital technologies such as games, social
media, surveillance and tracking devices. They also challenge
conventional thinking on these issues. Rather than relying on
technology, they argue we should instead focus on the quality of
relationships between children, their peers, their parents and with
adults generally. Then we can build a healthy digital future for
society as a whole.
Drawing on research conducted over the last 3 years in Cornwall,
UK, this new book explores the impact of the EU/BT funded
introduction of fibre broadband on rural SMEs. Including a
qualitative methodology and in depth focus groups with over 200
companies, The Impact of Fibre Connectivity on SMEs provides a
detailed, in depth, analysis to challenge conventionally held
beliefs in the value of subsidy and policy pressure in the
deployment of such projects. With focus on regional development in
the UK as well as exploration of the wider EU context, the book
presents a genuine insight into the technology adoption and
technology provision.
This book considers the rapidly evolving, both legally and
socially, nature of image-based abuse, for both minors and adults.
Drawing mainly from UK data, legislation and case studies, it
presents a thesis that the law is, at best, struggling to keep up
with some fundamental issues around image based abuse, such as the
sexual nature of the crimes and the long term impact on victims,
and at worst, in the case of supporting minors, not fit for
purpose. It shows, through empirical and legislative analysis, that
the dearth of education around this topic, coupled with cultural
norms, creates a victim blaming culture that extends into
adulthood. It proposes both legislative developments and need for
wider stakeholder engagement to understand and support victims, and
the impact the non-consensual sharing of intimate images can have
on their long-term mental health and life in general. The book is
of interest to scholar of law, criminology, sociology, police and
socio-technical studies, and is also to those who practice law, law
enforcement or wider social care role in both child and adult
safeguarding.
Drawing on research conducted over the last 3 years in Cornwall,
UK, this new book explores the impact of the EU/BT funded
introduction of fibre broadband on rural SMEs. Including a
qualitative methodology and in depth focus groups with over 200
companies, The Impact of Fibre Connectivity on SMEs provides a
detailed, in depth, analysis to challenge conventionally held
beliefs in the value of subsidy and policy pressure in the
deployment of such projects. With focus on regional development in
the UK as well as exploration of the wider EU context, the book
presents a genuine insight into the technology adoption and
technology provision.
This book explores online resilience and safety from a new
perspective, by drawing extensively upon the youth voice. While
"online safety" as a concept has now existed for well over ten
years, the majority of policy and narrative is driven by
preventative and adultist views of ensuring safety from harm.
Underpinned by extensive empirical work, this book argues that
safety, or freedom from harm, is not an achievable goal and we
should refocus upon harm reduction and risk mitigation. Fundamental
to this argument is that the youth voice clearly states that they
will not disclose, or ask adults for support, because they do not
believe they will get help or worse, will be punished as a result
of disclosure. The research shows that professionals often bring
their own digital value biases into safeguarding decisions, and
feel that they should be white knights to young people, rather than
listening to them and supporting them in a non-judgemental way. The
book will be of great value to researchers and students as well as
practitioners, teachers and parents interested in digital
resilience and safeguarding, internet security and youth online
behaviour and wellbeing.
This book explores the use of technology in young people's social
lives against a backdrop of "online safety measures" put in place
by the UK government to ensure safe and risk free engagement with
online services. The UK landscape is used as a case study to
compare the grass roots of digital behaviours with attempts by
policy makers to control access and prohibit "bad" behaviours. In
conducting an analysis of current UK policy positions and media
perspectives against ethnographic research in areas such as gaming
and sexting, the book highlights the flaws in approaching the
control of disruptive social behaviours using prohibitive
approaches. It also highlights the gulf between the experiences of
young people and the capabilities of the school system to deliver
effective education around safe online behaviours. The author
illustrates the complex relationship young people have with
technology, as active engagers rather than passive consumers, and
looks at the ways in which their needs for effective education and
resilience are currently not being met. Furthermore, he
demonstrates how, in an effort to make them safe, stakeholders are
eroding children's fundamental rights. Children's Online Behaviour
and Safety will be of interest to scholars, practitioners and
students researching and practicing in education, sociology,
children's law, children's digital rights and social policy.
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