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Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children

Pediatric Clinics of North America
Youth who are at risk for or who have experienced commercial sexual exploitation (CSEC) have specialized health care needs. Their experiences are often unrecognized, even with regular contact with pediatric medical providers. CSEC is a form of child abuse; this has been recognized by federal law and some state laws.
Rachel Silliman, Cohen, Deborah, Hall, Col Brian W, Brennan, Katherine P, Deye   +3 more
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Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children [PDF]

, 2014
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 American-born children targeted by sex traffickers, and of ...
Bang, Brandy, Baker, Paige L., Carpinteri, Alexis, Van Hasselt, Vincent B.   +3 more
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Uncovering Indicators of Commercial Sexual Exploitation

Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2017
It is estimated that annually 100,000 to 300,000 youth are at risk for sex trafficking; a commercial sex act induced by force, fraud, or coercion, or any such act where the person induced to perform such an act is younger than 18 years of age. Increasingly, such transactions are occurring online via Internet-based sites that serve the commercial sex ...
Dawn, Bounds, Kathleen R, Delaney, Wrenetha, Julion, Susan, Breitenstein   +3 more
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Prevention of Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children

Journal of Forensic Nursing
ABSTRACT Commercial sexual exploitation of children (CSEC) is a global public health crisis. CSEC is defined as the use of a child under the age of 18 years in a range of crimes and activities involving the sexual abuse or exploitation of the child for the financial benefit of any person or in exchange for anything of value given or received ...
Gail Hornor
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Commercial sexual exploitation of children

, 2017
This essay explores key questions emerging from recent research with children who experience commercial child sexual exploitation. It examines the discrepancies between children’s right to be protected from all forms of violence, including sexual violence, and the right to express their views.
Pearce, Jenny, Jenny Pearce
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Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children [PDF]

, 2013
Topic of the thesis: Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children The topic of this thesis is commercial sexual exploitation of children, which represents fundamental violation of children's rights. It comprises sexual abuse by an adult and remuneration in
Brandy Bang, Paige L. Baker, Alexis Carpinteri, Vincent B. Van Hasselt   +3 more
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Teen Knowledge of Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children

Journal of Pediatric Health Care, 2020
The commercial sexual exploitation of children (CSEC) is a pediatric health care problem with significant physical and mental health consequences for victims, even death. Although there exists community-wide collaborations in the United States to address professional response to CSEC, these efforts often have a limited capacity to reach adolescents and
Gail, Hornor, Jennifer, Sherfield, Jennifer, Tscholl   +2 more
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From Human Services to “Justice Enterprises”: Reframing the Market-Mission Tension in U.S. Organizations Serving Survivors of Commercial Sexual Exploitation

Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 2023
Nonprofits must navigate a unique tension—meeting the financial demands of the market while pursuing a social mission. As a result, market and mission concerns are often framed in a competitive, dualistic relationship.
Danielle J Corple
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Commercial Sexual Exploitation Victims Treated as Offenders: Examining the Gendered Risk Factors of Incarcerated Youth Charged with Prostitution

Victims & Offenders, 2023
Minors under the age of 18 involved in prostitution, or commercial sex acts, are defined as victims by the Trafficking Victims Protection Act. However, state and local justice systems continued to arrest and incarcerate minors for prostitution after the ...
Calli M. Cain
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