Abstract
International laws provide recommendations to American law enforcement on how to charge and prosecute offenders of commercial sexual exploitation of children (CSEC). However, international law is far more difficult to enforce than State or Federal laws. The Trafficking Victims Prevention Act (TVPA) of 2,000 offered over $95 million for anti-trafficking law enforcement and assistance programs. It mandated longer prison terms and significant financial sanctions for those convicted of trafficking. Its reauthorization in 2003 and 2005 further provided law enforcement the ability to investigate both domestic and international forms of CSEC. The William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008 strengthened Federal laws to fight both domestic and international trafficking. Further, in the past 20 years, Federal legislation has been modified to include child pornography as a punishable offense through the Communication Decency Act and Child Pornography Prevention Act. This section further explores the current legislation used to prosecute CSEC offenders.
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Bang, B., Baker, P.L., Carpinteri, A., Van Hasselt, V.B. (2014). CSEC Legislation. In: Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children. SpringerBriefs in Psychology(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01878-2_9
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