Briefing 3: Organised crime and child sexual exploitation in local communities

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Related Projects: Reducing the impact of organised crime in local communities, Improving the law enforcement response to online child sexual exploitation and abuse
Related Themes: Children and young people, Organised crime, Sexual assault

Briefing 3: Organised crime and child sexual exploitation in local communities

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This briefing brings together key evidence on child sexual exploitation from the Police Foundation’s Reducing the impact of serious organised crime in local communities project with Perpetuity Research.

Focusing on a single city, this research examines the links between child sexual exploitation (CSE). It presents an analysis of the characteristics of the groups that perpetrate CSE and how they operate, the scale and impact of organised crime linked to CSE and the response from the police and partner agencies. The briefing concludes with a number of recommendations.

Authors: Michael Skidmore, Sarah Garner, Ruth Crocker, Sarah Webb, John Graham and Martin Gill

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The Impact of Organised Crime Briefing 3 (CSEA)
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Michael Skidmore

Michael Skidmore joined the Police Foundation in May 2014 as a researcher on a project studying the impact of organised crime on local communities. He previously worked as a researcher in government for six years, most recently in Home Office Science where he developed a portfolio of work looking at the profiles of organised crime offenders. Michael also worked at HM Inspectorate of Prisons where he led the research for a number of national projects looking at the provision of alcohol treatment services and the treatment of remand prisoners in custody. He has also been a support worker for ex-offenders in a community and probation setting and has an MSc in forensic psychology. Michael did his DPhil in criminology and policing studies at the University of Portsmouth.