Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children

Biological, psychological, and environmental risk factors leave children and adolescents vulnerable to corruption, coercion, and violence, as in cases of young people being trafficked and sexually exploited. While the public tends to associate such abuses with far-off locales, the numbers of America...

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Main Authors: Bang, Brandy. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Baker, Paige L. (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Carpinteri, Alexis. (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Van Hasselt, Vincent B. (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
Edition:1st ed. 2014.
Series:SpringerBriefs in Behavioral Criminology,
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01878-2
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children
  • Victimology
  • Domestic Victims
  • Male Victims
  • International Victims
  • Child Trafficking
  • Offender Characteristics
  • Mechanism of Child Trafficking
  • Case Example 1: Sex Trafficking Risk Factors
  • Child Prostitution
  • Offender Characteristics
  • Mechanism of Forced Prostitution
  • Case Example 2: Methods of Victimization by Child Prostitution
  • Pornography
  • Offender Characteristics
  • Mechanism of Pornography
  • Case Example 3: Consumer, Trader, and Distributor of Child Pornography
  • Case Example 4: Offender Networks
  • Sex Tourism
  • Offender Characteristic
  • Mechanism of Sex Tourism
  • Case Example 5: The Preferential Sexual Tourist
  • Case Example 6: The Repeat Tourist
  • Sex Traveler/Enticer
  • Offender Characteristics
  • Mechanism of Sex Traveling
  • Case Example 7: The Enticement/Grooming Process of a Traveler
  • Case Example 8: Luring Behaviors of a Traveler
  • CSEC Legislation
  • Legislative History
  • Current Federal Laws Used to Prosecute CSEC Offenders
  • Conclusion.