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Victims of sex trafficking and online sexual exploitation
Commercial sexual exploitation is a complex, profitable, relatively low risk, and everchanging criminal enterprise that remains difficult to effectively address in policy and practice. Researchers throughout the last decade have begun exploring the unique role of the Internet in facilitating commercial sexual exploitation among vulnerable children and adults in the United States. This chapter will summarize current research on Internet-facilitated commercial sexual exploitation, and will discuss the ways in which cyberspace represents an increasingly anonymous market for sex buyers complicit in the victimization of children and adults. It will also critically examine the ways in which current efforts to address commercial sexual exploitation may be complicit in upholding structures that enable exploitation to flourish.
History
Publication status
- Published
File Version
- Accepted version
Publisher
Taylor & FrancisPublisher URL
Page range
94-107Pages
230.0Book title
Cybercrime and its victimsPlace of publication
New YorkISBN
9781138639447Series
Routledge studies in crime and societyDepartment affiliated with
- Social Work and Social Care Publications
Full text available
- No
Peer reviewed?
- Yes