The invention of yet another form of abuse

A new report from the UK Office of the Children's Commissioner, titled Inquiry into Child Sexual Exploitation in Gangs and Groups, shows that policy-led research is still flourishing in Westminster. [...]

The researchers answer this question, not so much by discovering crimes, but by inventing a new crime. They call it CSE, or Child Sexual Exploitation. As they acknowledge, 'There is no recognised category of abuse for sexual exploitation as part of standard child protection procedure'. They add: 'Furthermore, while perpetrators have been convicted for their involvement in the sexual exploitation of children, using offences such as "grooming" or "sexual activity with a child", there is no specific crime of child sexual exploitation and therefore it is not possible to obtain figures through a trawl of police crime data on sexual offences.' In other words, CSE has no juridical or legal standing; it is simply a highly emotive term, or metaphor, used by these child protection professionals to draw attention to what they think should be a crime.

source: Article ' The invention of yet another form of abuse' by Frank Furedi; www.spiked-online.com/site/article/13118/; spiked; 26 November 2012