Topic
Child prostitution
About: Child prostitution is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 296 publications have been published within this topic receiving 4785 citations. The topic is also known as: child prostitution.
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Papers
TL;DR: Conceptualising and debating sex-work harm reduction as a new paradigm can hasten this process of safeguard sex workers' lives in the same way that drug users have benefited from drug-use harm reduction.
543 citations
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1 Jan 1998
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined how vested economic interests and unequal social relations between the sexes and between parents and children interact with considerations based on human rights, workers' rights, morality, criminality, and health threats to influence the legal stance adopted by governments and the social programmes targeting the sex sector.
Abstract: Focuses on the commercial sex sector and its institutional structures and connections with the national and international economies Case studies of Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Thailand are included The text examines how vested economic interests and unequal social relations between the sexes and between parents and children interact with considerations based on human rights, workers' rights, morality, criminality, and health threats to influence the legal stance adopted by governments and the social programmes targeting the sex sector A chapter specifically addresses child prostitution and explains why it should be treated as a much more serious problem than adult prostitution
358 citations
1 Mar 2014
228 citations
TL;DR: Commercial sexual exploitation of children is examined; the needs and problems between child prostitution and victims of human trafficking are distinguished; current treatment practices are reviewed; challenges and successes are summarized; and practice and policy recommendations are summarized.
205 citations
TL;DR: These estimates underscore the need for health professionals to collaborate with individuals and organisations that provide direct services to prostituted children and propose research strategies and interventions to mitigate such health consequences.
204 citations
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| Year | Papers |
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| 2021 | 3 |
| 2020 | 7 |
| 2019 | 7 |
| 2018 | 9 |
| 2017 | 12 |
| 2016 | 6 |