Child exploitation and trafficking: examining the global challenges and U.S. responses

Surveying the scope of the problem

The broad descriptive challenge

Appreciating the human trafficking problem and its enforcement challenges

Synchronized abuse : the impact of international organized crime groups on child trafficking and other forms of sexual exploitation

Public corruption as the silent partner to child sexual exploitation

Federal statutes targeting child exploitation

Finding the world's voice : international instruments targeting the sexual exploitation of children

Investigating child exploitation cases

The syndicate and the scholar : examining the anatomy of the prosecution of University of Chicago pediatrician Dr. H. Marc Watzman

The challenge of transnational investigations

Victim witness protection in child exploitation cases

The difficult defense : surveying the most common issues when representing individuals accused of child exploitation

Overview of selected trial issues

Sentencing considerations in sexual exploitation cases : does anything work?

Appendix 1: Convention on the rights of the child (1989) Preamble

Appendix 2: Optional protocol to the convention on the rights of the child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography

Appendix 3: U.S.- Thailand mutual legal assistance treaty

Appendix 4: Sample letter rogatory

Appendix 5: 1992 Inter-American convention on mutual assistance in criminal matters.