Underage commercial sex and criminal prosecutions: Who really are the victims? A Singapore perspective
Publication Type
Book Chapter
Version
submittedVersion
Publication Date
9-2016
Abstract
In 2008 Singapore created a new offence under the Penal Code of under-aged commercial sex with any person below 18 years. The chapter discusses the many questions that arise from various cases and examines whether the prosecution and imprisonment of these offenders under the new law represent just desserts for the perpetrators of sexual exploitation, or whether they are merely examples of the overreach of the law, resulting in prosecution and imprisonment and the destruction of careers and families,resulting in perhaps multiple victims of the law.
Keywords
Penal Code, Commercial Sex, Punishment, Victimization
Discipline
Asian Studies | Criminal Law
Publication
Interpersonal Criminology: Revisiting Interpersonal Crimes and Victimization
Editor
Jaishankar, K.
ISBN
9781498748599
Publisher
CRC Press
City or Country
Boca Raton, FL
Citation
MOHAN, S. Chandra.
Underage commercial sex and criminal prosecutions: Who really are the victims? A Singapore perspective. (2016). Interpersonal Criminology: Revisiting Interpersonal Crimes and Victimization.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sol_research/1869
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