Prostitucijos paplitimo kriminologinis tyrimas Europos Sąjungos kontekste ; Criminological Research of Spreading of Prostitution in the Context of the European Union

Abstract

Prostitution is thought to be one of the oldest professions in the world that was started to be criminalized in the Middle Ages after the changes in the societies' value, attitudes to women, increasing power of churches. Nowadays prostitution is a complex and multiple phenomenons. This problem should be solved looking for the solutions in the causes of prostitution. Such an angle to prostitution reveals the relevance of the theme, making it clear through the legal aspects of this phenomenon in different EU members. The results of the research show that this research is quite new. There were 121 references used and about 50 more articles, books, reports analyzed in this research and the analysis allows concluding that different authors and different organizations research, analyze just the detached facts without any trends, not taking into account the whole phenomenon. That means that there are no comprehensive researches done in this field. The goal of this paper is to characterize prostitution as a criminal activity in the European Union. Seeking this goal allowed analyzing the multiplicity of prostitution, defining the causes and outcomes, presenting the spreading of this phenomenon, showing that prostitution has the elements of criminal activity even in the countries it is legal. The Paper consists of preface, three main parts and conclusions. In the first part of the Paper the theoretical aspects of prostitution are being analyzed. The second part presents the results of the criminological research and the third part reveals the prevent policy carried out in the European Union.