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Lifestyles and routine activities of South African teenagers at risk of being trafficked for involuntary prostitution.
- Source :
- Journal of Child & Adolescent Mental Health; 2010, Vol. 22 Issue 2, p91-110, 20p
- Publication Year :
- 2010
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Abstract
- The United Nations estimates that 79% of teenage girls trafficked globally every year are forced into involuntary prostitution. About 247 000 South African children work in exploitative conditions; about 40 000 South African female teenagers work as prostitutes. This paper investigates lifestyles and routine activities of teenagers at risk of being trafficked for involuntary prostitution. The key concepts involuntary prostitution, intergenerational sex and exploitative conditions are defined in relation to the lifestyles and routine activities of South African female teenagers. Human trafficking for involuntary prostitution is described, based on a literature review. Lifestyle exposure and routine activities theories help to explain the potential victimisation of these teenagers in human trafficking for involuntary prostitution. Actual lifestyle and routine activities of South African teenagers and risky behaviours (substance abuse, intergenerational sex and child prostitution) are discussed as factors that make teens vulnerable to such trafficking. This paper recommends that human trafficking prevention efforts (awareness programmes and information campaigns) be directed at places frequented by human traffickers and teenagers in the absence of a capable guardian to reduce victimisation, as traffickers analyse the lifestyles and routine activities of their targets. South Africa should also interrogate entrenched practices such as intergenerational sex. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- SEX work
SUBSTANCE abuse & psychology
PREVENTION of sex work
CONCEPTUAL structures
INTERGENERATIONAL relations
MATHEMATICAL models
PARENT-child relationships
RISK assessment
RISK-taking behavior
SEX distribution
CRIME victims
THEORY
GOVERNMENT policy
CULTURAL values
FAMILY relations
SOCIOECONOMIC factors
SOCIAL context
LIFESTYLES
ADOLESCENCE
PSYCHOLOGY
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 17280583
- Volume :
- 22
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Child & Adolescent Mental Health
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 55227257
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.2989/17280583.2010.528578