Opinion: Not even Suella Braverman’s own department agrees with her about ‘grooming gangs’
5 April 2023
Child sexual abuse is distressingly common, but the Government's focus on "grooming gangs" of Pakistani-heritage Muslim men is xenophobic, untrue and can harm efforts to combat child sexual exploitation, writes Dr Ella Cockbain (UCL Security & Crime Science) in The Guardian.
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Links
- Article in The Guardian
- Dr Ella Cockbain’s academic profile
- UCL Security & Crime Science
- UCL Faculty of Engineering Science
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