The commercial sexual exploitation of children / Meredith L Dank.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dank, Meredith L., 1977-

Series:

Criminal justice (LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC)

Criminal justice: recent scholarship

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Child prostitution.

Child sexual abuse.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (166 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

El Paso, Tex. : LFB Scholarly Pub., c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Dank's work is based on The National Institute of Justice funded study interviewing 249 prostituted youth in New York City. Her study of the data generated a prevalence rate in addition to an explanation of the attributes of the CSEC networks and its members. Social capital theories explain how youth become involved in the CSEC market and why it is difficult for them to leave. Findings suggest that youth who possess social capital before entering the market are more likely to seek help, which can lead to their leaving the CSEC lifestyle. Those youth who do not have pre-existing normative socia

Contents:

CONTENTS; Acknowledgements; Preface; Chapter 1: What is the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children?; Methodology; Structure of the book; Chapter 2: What is Known about the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children; Chapter 3: The Methodological Approach and Lessons Learned from Attempting to Recruit Prostituted Youth; The CSEC Population in New York City: Size,Characteristics, and Needs; The Rationale: Why this method?; The Preparations: Formative Research; Planning for Subject Recruitment via RDS and Interviewswith Commercially Sexually Exploited Youth

The Data Collection Process: adjustments to the plan Chapter 4: CSEC Population Estimate and Attributes of CSEC Networks and its Members; Background; Population estimates and special seeds; RDS Recruitment Data; Conclusion; Chapter 5: Pre-existing Social Capital Among the CSEC Population; Methodology; Results; Discussion; Conclusion; Chapter 6: Constrained Choices and Lack of Agency among the CSEC Population; Introduction; Methodology; Discussion; Recruitment into the CSEC market; Leaving ""the life""; Conclusion; Chapter 7: General Discussion and Conclusion; Discussion of the Findings

Limitations Methodological Implications; Theoretical Implications; Policy Implications; Future Research; Last Reflections; Appendix A; Appendix B; Appendix C; References; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781593326739

1593326734

OCLC:

818818927