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Overview
Child sexual abuse is attracting much public concern and attention in many parts of the world. In recent years, it has taken on a novel form involving abusers masquerading as tourists and travelling to countries where children may be particularly vulnerable. Men from Europe, the US, and Japan now visit Third World and Eastern European countries in order to engage in the sexual abuse of young children. This book examines a new departure in international cooperation to suppress this practice whereby a number of countries--including the US, many European nations, Japan and Thailand--have passed legislation making possible the arrest and trial of their citizens for these offences even when carried out beyond their borders.
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Seabrook translates for general readers the findings of a study by the End Child Prostitution, Child Pornography and Trafficking in Children for Sexual Purposes (ECPAT), which was in technical and legal jargon. It examined the operation of the complicated legal issue, extraterritorial jurisdiction, that is, to test whether child sex offenders had been and could be prosecuted in their own countries if they managed to escape the jurisdiction in which they had the committed the offense. Distributed in the US by St. Martin's Press. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)Book Details
Published
July 1, 2000
Publisher
London [England] ; Zed Books, c2000.
Pages
160
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9781856499149