| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺北大學 === 犯罪學研究所 === 97 === According to Child and Teenage Sex Trade Prevention Act, teenage girls engaged in sexual transaction related activities are victims and must be placed. The short-term emergency placement centers are the intermediate organizations between criminal justice and social welfare system. This dissertation aims to: firstly, explores the way girls perceive their situation, interpret their sexual transaction experience and view the highly contradictory mandatory protection. It also tries to categorize the girls’ coping strategy and survival skills in the placement centers. I applied qualitative approach and in-depth interviews on collecting data. Five girls in a short-term emergency placement center were interviewed. The findings are as follows:
1. Girls engaged in sexual transaction may have different motives and courses, but most of them describe their relationship with family as distant and/or conflictive.
2. After the justice process and the entering into placement centers, the girls’ perception of their illegality and the negative evaluation of their behaviors are intensified. Also, they are concerned about being stigmatized. In other cases, some girls insist on their autonomy and continuously question the legitimacy of parens patriae.
3. Most girls do not appreciate the protective role of the placement centers. In contrast, they view placement as punishment and custody that force them to introspect themselves. They also regard sexual transaction related activities as deviance.
4. The girls’ coping strategy in short-term emergency placement centers can be categorized as: susceptive style, leading style, obedient style, depressive fugitive style and rebelling style.
5. The supporting system and the empowerment measure provided by placement centers might has positive effects on girls’adjustability.
6. The girls and the workers in placement centers were unequal in power relations. They are also unequal in terms of the access to information of evaluation and judgment.
7. Generally speaking, the girls seldom feel themselves under protection inside the placement center.
Based on all of the above, this research provides following suggestions:
1. Educate and assist the girls to develop positive and constructive use of internet.
2. Help girls who desire financial independence with developmental and constructive technological and vocational training opportunities.
3. Regard the girls as survivors, not victims.Design diversified programs and practice the protective position.
4. Help the girls in the placement centers and restore their family relation.
5. Set up an effective communication channel and respect the girls’ opinions during placing process.
6. Avoid gap of information and inform related process clearly during the criminal justice process.
7. Evaluate deliberately the necessity of long-term placement for strongly resistant girls.
8. Reinforce the protective sensitivity of the police and judges during law enforcement.
9. Respect the girls’ right to attend the court.
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