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Pathways into and out of Commercial Sexual Exploitation – Preliminary Findings and Implications for Responding to Sexually Exploited Teens

Document number
2264
Date
2008
Title
Pathways into and out of Commercial Sexual Exploitation – Preliminary Findings and Implications for Responding to Sexually Exploited Teens
Author/publisher
Linda M. Williams, Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology, University of Massachusetts Lowell
Availability
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Document type(s)
Research/Study/Analysis,
Keywords
Women's rights; Women; Control and regulation of prostitution, Protection, Punishable forms of prostitution, Sex tourism, Pornography, Domestic violence, Prostitution, Rape, Sexual harassment, Corporate social responsibility, Multi-stakeholder partnerships: Child Trafficking, Child Prostitution, Child Pornography,
Summary

The goal of the research is to understand the victims' perspectives; to identify the factors (individual, family, peer, school, and community contexts) associated with the commencement of CSEC; to identify factors that surround its maintenance and escalation; and to identify factors that impede or empower exiting from or overcoming exploitative situations. Our research includes qualitative and quantitative methods with a focus on integrating researchers and grassroots organizers into the design, data collection, data analysis and dissemination.

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