Peer-on-Peer Abuse
Research indicates that a significant minority of young women will be abused by a partner before they reach the age of 18 years (Barter et al., 2009); that a third of child sexual exploitation cases are peer-on-peer (Firmin, 2013; MOPAC, 2015); and that young men have been groomed into victimising their peers, physically, emotionally and sexually (Beckett et al., 2013; McNaughton Nicholls et al., 2014).
This body of work indicates that, in particular Western cultures, peer groups, schools and neighbourhoods inform the nature of peer-on-peer abuse. It is the response to this individual/context interplay, across different manifestations of peer-on-peer abuse, with which this article is concerned.
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