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43 Vand. J. Transnat'l L. 1 (2010)
Taking Prevention Seriously: Developing a Comprehensive Response to Child Trafficking and Sexual Exploitation

handle is hein.journals/vantl43 and id is 3 raw text is: VANDERBILT JOURNAL OF TRANSNATIONAL LAW VOLUME 43 JANUARY 2010 Taking Prevention Seriously: Developing a Comprehensive Response to Child Trafficking and Sexual Exploitation Jonathan Todres* ABSTRACT Millions of children are victims of trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation each year. Governments have responded with a range of measures, focusing primarily on seeking to prosecute perpetrators of these abuses and offering assistance to select victims. These efforts, while important, have done little to reduce the incidence of these forms of child exploitation. This Article asserts that a central reason why efforts to date may not be as effective as hoped is that governments have not oriented their approaches properly toward prioritizing prevention-the ultimate goal-and addressing these problems in a comprehensive and systematic manner. Instead, efforts to date have been piecemeal and * Associate Professor of Law, Georgia State University College of Law. I am grateful to Andi Curcio, Paul Lombardo, Pratheepan Gulasekaram, Risa Kaufman, and Russell Covey for their comments on earlier drafts. I also benefited from presenting an earlier version of this Article at the Children and the European Union: Legal, Political, and Research Perspectives conference at the University of Liverpool Law School, U.K., in April 2009. I also must thank the many government and NGO representatives working on this issue who were willing to share their experiences with me. Finally, thank you to Nichole DeVries for her excellent research assistance. 1 NUMBER 1

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