Journal of Shanghai University (Social Science Edition) ›› 2020, Vol. 37 ›› Issue (1): 94-104.

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The Crime of Compelling Prostitution from the Angle of Victims

  

  • Online:2020-01-15 Published:2020-09-04

Abstract:  Prostitution should be understood as sexual services including sexual intercourse or other direct sexual contacts that arouse sexual awareness or satisfy sexual psychology provided by a man or a woman in exchange for material or other benefits. Victims of compelling prostitution can either be men or be women. The people who do not directly engage in prostitution, including family members like wife and daughter, but form an interrelated whole with the person compelled to prostitute in the eyes of the coercing party, are also the victims of compelling prostitution. In addition, people who are unconscious or have impaired consciousness or children under 14 are not necessarily victims of compelling prostitution. What the victims do not agree with the coercers may sometimes be inconsistent with what they agree with the clients of prostitution. The criterion for the completion of the crime should be grounded on whether the will of the victim is controlled by the coercer through his/her coercive behavior at the moment of compelling prostitution.

Key words:  crime of compelling prostitution, victim, disagreed content, criminal pattern