성매매 청소년 사법처리와 지원시설 연계의 과제

Abstract

This study is focused on the problems occurred in legal action against adolescent prostitutes and in the connection to the youth shelter. The early detection of adolescent prostitutes take priority in the problem of connection to the youth shelter. For the early detection of adolescent prostitutes, monitoring activities on the internet space, especially on chatting community, and police rounds should be reinforced at the places of entertainment. For taking appropriate measures in the stage of police investigation against the adolescent prostitutes, the role of the policeman and the prosecutor require a coordination. In the stage of police investigation against the adolescent prostitutes, it is necessary to grant discretionary power to the policeman according to the situation that the adolescent prostitutes are faced. Especially it is necessary to give command authority for rehabilitation programs that the prosecutors already have officially also to the policeman who investigate the adolescent prostitutes. Above all things, youth shelter that able to accommodate the adolescent prostitutes should be added quantitatively in order to activate the connection activities by policeman.