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- Title
Sexual Exploitation of Children in Travel and Tourism Perpetration: An Expansion of the Ecosystem Model.
- Authors
Stephens, Skye
- Abstract
The sexual exploitation of children in travel and tourism (SECTT), also referred to as child sex tourism, involves engaging in sexual activity with someone under the age of 18 in the context of travel and/or tourism. Research on the perpetration of SECTT is vastly underdeveloped. The present review considers the operationalization of SECTT, its prevalence, and existing theoretical models. Existing theory on SECTT provides a good overview of environmental factors that contribute to SECTT, but the model is insufficient in fully accounting for individual-level risk factors related to sexual offending against children. The present paper expands an existing theoretical model of SECTT, the ecosystem model, to account for these individual risk factors and considers their interaction with environmental factors. The paper concludes by highlighting different avenues for future research.
- Subjects
HUMAN trafficking; SEX crimes; SEX tourism; CHILD sexual abuse; EXPLOITATION of humans
- Publication
Archives of Sexual Behavior, 2024, Vol 53, Issue 9, p3347
- ISSN
0004-0002
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10508-024-02934-1