Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children

Topic of the thesis: Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children The topic of this thesis is commercial sexual exploitation of children, which represents fundamental violation of children's rights. It comprises sexual abuse by an adult and remuneration in money or non-monetary benefits to the child or to a third party. The child is treated as a sexual object and as a commercial object. The thesis is divided into five parts. The first chapter is dedicated to theoretical introduction to the phenomenon of commercial sexual exploitation of children, the process of its recognition and the current situation. Criminological aspects are also mentioned. The second chapter deals with international treatment of protection of children against commercial sexual exploitation and turns attention to documents adopted by the United Nations, the International Labour Organization, the International Tourism Organization, the Council of Europe and the European Union. The core of this thesis is elaborated on in the third chapter, which focuses on criminal protection of children against commercial sexual exploitation in the Czech Republic and concentrates on the analysis of the elements of crimes penalizing various aspects of this phenomenon. The analysis is divided by the forms of actions into trafficking of children,..