Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children

The commercial exploitation of children is a global crisis (Rahman, 2011; Svensson, 2006). However, media outlets and sociological researchers have successfully situated the problem as a primarily Asian, South American, or Eastern European concern. In the process, the exploitation of children in the United States has largely been ignored.  The continued trafficking of international youth into this country, coupled with the growing rate at which American born children are targeted by interst