Juvenile Prostitution Crimes

Juvenile prostitution could be define as the time in which a teenage under the age of 18 engage in sexual activities in exchange of money, property, or for mainly other reason than satisfy one emotional or sexual needs. When we think of juvenile prostitution we usually think that these grills sell their self for pleasure or because they want to but, the reality is that this crime is escalating to a level that our teenagers are becoming like slave in the 2009 this crime is getting worst and our community is not concern that this people are usually tacking our teenagers to prostitute them.

Back in the century like in the 1800’s, juvenile prostitution was legally and sociable accepted but this change with the Mann ACT law in the 1910, which prohibited juvenile prostitution almost every were in the country. Today is prohibited in 49 out of 50 states with the exception of Nevada who still promote the adult prostitution legally. We really need to fight with this problem because is ending with our teenager liberty, social moral and is creating hire crimes (rape, muder, kinapping and more). “It is estimated that there are 60 million survivors of childhood sexual abuse in America today. Child abuse contributes to our overcrowded prisons as nearly 31% of woman in prison say they were abuse as children” (Pat Lunsford). More than

Many cases suggest that teenagers involve in juvenile prostitution grow up in neglectful and abusive homes. These teenagers were often abuse bay their fathers, sell by their mothers, ore violated by their step parents. Most of the time this teenagers run away from their home and unfortunely many end on the street without no one to support them and a safe place to stay. They are often victimise true pornograph...

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... rehabilitation and social reintegration, strength the relationship between the government and the civil society, maintain social policies, media education, develop programs offering counselling, education, as well to give them support will living this life. When it come to interment with youth involve in prostitution we should start with creating alliances with young people and take time to know them. Encouraging them to make use of their strength and believe in themselves, talk to them about violence, STD, HIV, sexual exploitation and all the outcome of the world of prostitution. It is essential to include juvenile-prostitution-related initiatives that can be carried out by police departments, school services, community and heath agency (wisper), parents groups, youth and the community in general.

Sources:

www.juvenileprostitution.com

www.wisper.com