Jessica Taylor

This report and related recommendations should be considered vital to any organisation seeking to engage victims, survivors and people with experience of all different types of abuse, oppression, health and illness, loss, distress, and trauma. With many organisations now moving towards, or aspiring to trauma informed approaches and philosophies,...

Over 22,000 UK women told VictimFocus about their experiences of violence and abuse. This dataset is the largest and most comprehensive record of violence committed against women and girls in the UK. 'I thought it was just a part of life' Understanding the Scale of Violence Committed Against Women in the UK Since Birth 99.7% of our sample had b...

As part of a set of three reports being released in early 2021, this report presents the findings of a large study which explored the attitudes of the British public towards women who become pregnant from sexual violence committed against them by men. Further, the questionnaire asked the participants for their thoughts and perceptions of children...

Second part of the three part study. This report contains the real stories of women who have become pregnant or had children who were conceived in sexual violence committed against them by men. These are unedited and presented without analysis to honour the real experiences and voices of women. The intended audience for this resource includes:...

This report contains the views of professionals across a UK local authority (LA), when asked about how current child sexual exploitation and abuse practice could change and innovate in the future. As part of a commissioned project by the LA, the researcher was tasked with exploring how professionals in a range of different roles both within the LA...

Approaches to E-safety have been fairly static for several years in the UK, with common tactics centring around safeguarding, policing and restricting internet and technology access of children, without necessarily engaging with children to learn about what they are accessing, what they enjoy, what they do not enjoy and how they use technology in t...

This study considers whether the diagnosis Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (C-PTSD) might replace Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) as a less harmful alternative for women in forensic services. This paper investigates the perspectives of key informants with a high level of expertise in the fields of complex trauma and personality disorde...

A report exploring the way the UK media portrays sexual violence against women. The second part of the report analyses 6 UK sexual violence prevention campaigns and then suggested recommendations for improving the media reporting and campaigning around sexual violence to reduce victim blaming of women and children

Thesis Summary Victim blaming and self-blame are common experiences for women who have been subjected to sexual violence and abuse. This thesis employs a comprehensive mixed-methods approach from a critical relativist feminist epistemology which includes a review of the literature of victim blaming of women, the development and initial validation...

This resource contains critical discussions of current approaches to child sexual exploitation prevention, intervention and practice in the UK. Three core assumptions about CSE practice are critically examined: The assumption that only vulnerable children are sexually exploited The assumption that children 'take risks' that lead to CSE The assumpt...

Online abuse communicated via social networking sites has increased dramatically in recent years. Criminal justice agencies have been slow to respond to the immense change that has occurred as a result of the way that individuals interact in the digital space. The emerging nature of the phenomena has created a policy vacuum, with evidence suggestin...

This document considers whether the human rights and entitlements afforded to girls are protecting them from sexual exploitation in the UK, and whether those rights under international and national law and legislation are being observed and adhered to when working with girls. At the back of this document (starting at page 12) is a large table of hu...

This guide is a free and accessible collection of ideas and advice for practitioners working in child sexual exploitation (CSE) and abuse. In 2017, Jessica Eaton launched the campaign #nomoreCSEfilms to challenge the use of traumatic imagery which led to hundreds of people submitting written accounts of the harm caused by showing CSE films to chi...

What can we learn from this unique example of writing from a child experiencing severe abuse, rape and daily violence? What can we learn about how she coped with and understood what was happening to her? Jessica Eaton and Claire Paterson-Young work through the poems, performing thematic analysis and grounding the voice of the child in empirical lit...

All over the UK, tens of thousands of children are being shown films containing graphic scenes of the rape and sexual abuse, drugging, trafficking, grooming, bullying and even murder of children. In the sector, they are well known as ‘CSE resources’ or ‘CSE films’ by practitioners and the suppliers. The films are shown to children as young as 8 yea...

This study is one of the first to explore the impact of child sexual exploitation (CSE) training on an entire police force which had not undertaken any CSE training before. There is a large industry which sells CSE training to police forces and other statutory services all over the UK and British Isles-but it is rare to find studies that evaluate h...

This is the latest evidence scope in child sexual exploitation, originally written and published in 2015 by RiP. It was revised by Jessica Eaton in September 2017 and published by RiP in October 2017 to reflect the evolving understanding and evidence in child sexual exploitation practice and theory. It is open access and owned by RiP.

Child sexual exploitation training has become a central part of the strategy of all local authorities, organisations and police forces in the UK. However, the impact and value of this training - including whether it has any effect on practice going forward, has not been evaluated. Training was designed based on the latest evidence and delivered to...

The focus of this planned research is the way in which external victim blaming from all levels of society can be internalised by women who have experienced rape and sexual assault. These damaging victim blaming messages have been shown to affect the way the woman sees her own experience. It seeks to explore the relationship between a woman experien...

The focus of this research is the way in which external victim blaming from all levels of society can be accepted and internalised by women who have experienced rape and sexual assault. These damaging victim blaming messages and myths have been shown to affect the way the woman sees her own sexual violence experience. This piece of research seeks t...