PEREIRA ALBERTO, Maria de Fátima et al. Sexual exploitation of children and adolescents from the perspective of population’s members. Psicol. rev. (Belo Horizonte) []. 2009, 15, 3, pp.41-59. ISSN 1677-1168.

This article talks about a research developed in points of commercial sexual exploitation of children and adolescents with adults people members of the population about the knowledge they had about this kind of exploitation. It was used a guide with open and closed questions that contemplated the perception and the knowledge about the commercial sexual exploitation of children and adolescents, characteristics of involved and forms of facing. Data reveal that the 15 participants of the research have knowledge of the problematic and its nuances, causes, characteristics, profile of the children and adolescents and exploiters, modalities, locals, relation of commercial sexual exploitation of children and adolescents with others activities of work and with the webs of exploitation. It’s possible to verify that, though some participants believe that the form to face commercial sexual exploitation of children and adolescents resides in public politics and verify in the city object of the research the existence of social politics, they don’t believe in the efficacy of those politics, neither in Laws.

: children and adolescents; public; commercial sexual exploitation; human rights.

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