- Title
- An exploratory study of children and youth in prostitution with specific reference to Gauteng Province, South Africa
- Creator
- Sibanyoni, Ephraim Kevin
- Subject
- Child prostitution -- Gauteng -- South Africa
- Subject
- Teenage prostitution -- Gauteng -- South Africa
- Date Issued
- 2013
- Date
- 2013
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Masters
- Type
- MA
- Identifier
- vital:18464
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/11260/d1008291
- Description
- This study focuses on children and youth who have been exploited sexually for commercial reasons and are currently in a rehabilitation programme. At the time of the study these children and youth were staying in safe shelters in the Gauteng province. The focus is specifically on four facilities, three in Johannesburg and one in Pretoria. The aims of the study is to determine how these children and youth were lured into prostitution; to determine the impact of the prostitution life on the child and youth and to examine factors that contribute to children and youth resuccumbing to prostitution after being rescued from prostitution. The researcher employed a questionnaire as an instrument of gathering data from children that were rehabilitated and associated with four shelters in Gauteng. Scheduled structured questionnaires were used in the study and were divided into six sections, with each section addressing each aim of the study. The findings of the study revealed that children were lured into prostitution because of poverty, unemployment, and a promise of a better life. They also got involved due to drug addiction. In turn, children faced great risks, including forced perversion, physical abuse, and emotional abuse.
- Format
- xiii, 227 leaves
- Format
- Publisher
- Walter Sisulu University
- Publisher
- Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Walter Sisulu University
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