Reeves, Jane, Jones, Stephanie E., Kosaraju, Aravinda, Shemmings, David, Rigby, Paul, Scharf, Kristen, Soutar, Emma (2024) May and Bay: Online child sexual exploitation and abuse in Southeast Asia — Using digital games in preventative education. Journal of Human Rights and Social Work, 9 (4). pp. 615-629. ISSN 2365-1792. (doi:10.1007/s41134-024-00314-2) (KAR id:108274)
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s41134-024-00314-2 |
Abstract
This article follows the journey of creating a digital preventative education programme for combating online child sexual exploitation and abuse (OCSEA) and child sex trafficking in Thailand and Cambodia. Created and rolled out over 2 years as part of the End Violence Against Children (EVAC) grant during the COVID-19 global pandemic, this article sets out how the programme was designed, with direct input from children and professionals, and underpinned by human rights and contextual safeguarding principles. It outlines how collaborative approaches between children, academia, expert NGO’s, and professionals have resulted in a thought-provoking digital programme (May and Bay) that sensitively tackles sexual grooming and promotes child safeguarding. The article highlights how the game focuses on the interplay between children’s choices online and the environmental constraints they face, with the lead characters May (aged 11) and Bay (aged 13) making ‘risky’ and ‘safe’ choices against interacting aspects of their social and digital environments. The game supports the development of digital competence among children and professionals by promoting awareness of online harms emanating from the interplay of technology with children’s micro, meso, and macro environments against a range of people whose interaction with them may be ‘safe’ or ‘unsafe’. It recognises children, peers, parents, carers, professionals responsible for safeguarding, media, legislators, and local non-governmental and international aid organisations as potential ‘attractors’ or ‘agents within the system’ whose combined efforts can change how child safeguarding systems respond.
Item Type: | Article |
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DOI/Identification number: | 10.1007/s41134-024-00314-2 |
Uncontrolled keywords: | Online child sexual exploitation and abuse (OCSEA), Digital safety, Child trafficking, Grooming, Preventative education, SimulationS, Human rights approach |
Subjects: | H Social Sciences |
Divisions: | Divisions > Division for the Study of Law, Society and Social Justice > School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research |
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University of Kent (https://ror.org/00xkeyj56)
University of Stirling (https://ror.org/045wgfr59) |
SWORD Depositor: | JISC Publications Router |
Depositing User: | JISC Publications Router |
Date Deposited: | 11 Feb 2025 16:35 UTC |
Last Modified: | 13 Feb 2025 09:56 UTC |
Resource URI: | https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/108274 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
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