Nepilnamečių merginų įtraukimo į prostituciją prevencija
The prevention of juvenile girls’ involvement in prostitution

Summary/Abstract: Prostitution is a criminal activity that juvenile girls are deceived into by trick or by force. Getting involved in prostitution trade has an extremely negative impact on girls. According to F. Christiane (1998), prostitution damages juveniles’ health - it harms the reproduction functions, diminishes the possibility to conceive and to bear a healthy fullterm child. Moreover, it increases the risk of being infected with sexually transmitted diseases [1]. Involvement in prostitution trade also affects juveniles’ state of mind - distorts emotional and psychic sphere, arouse the feeling of quilt and stigma, causes depression and suppresses empathy [15]. Prostitution also impinges on social relationship - juvenile prostitutes develop the syndrome of a victim, inability to start and maintain close relationships, aggressiveness and loose confidence in other people [4]. Involvement in prostitution is related to insufficient juvenile education and lack of information about damage, done by prostitution. An effective precautionary device of involvement in prostitution should be the informing of society, especially young people, about possible risks of prostitution. The representatives of Catholic Church also highlight the latter direction of education. Pope John Paul II (1995) noted that the society and the Church must participate in the struggle against boys and girls’ dignity violation, that arise because of sexual exploita tion, and to develop their attitudes towards values [5]. On purpose to implement the highlighted direction of prostitution prevention successfully, it is very important, as R. Deborah (2007) points out, to be acquainted with youth’s attitudes towards prostitution and to pay attention to these attitudes during precautionary activity [3]. The study of attitudes towards prostitution has shown that the researched juvenile girls can be classified according to their attitudes towards prostitution. Two broad groups (A and B) of juvenile girls can be distinguished. Group A. They believed that the life of a prostitute could be successful...

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