Title: Elements of Offense – Prostitution
Headings: Elements of Offense
Elements of Offense
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Content: Elements of Offense – Prostitution
Elements of Offense
Generally, prostitution is the act of engaging in sexual activity by a person for a fee or a thing of economic value. But the scope of the crime of prostitution has been widened to include all prostitution related offenses. Thus a person is considered to commit an offense of prostitution if s/he engages in an act of prostitution willfully, solicits prostitution, or agrees to engage in an act of prostitution. The parties to the crime usually include: a prostitute and a customer or a third person/pimp. In addition to engaging in prostitution, soliciting prostitution, agreeing to engage in an act of prostitution, child prostitution, attempted prostitution are other prostitution related offenses. A person may be guilty of an attempt to commit prostitution when s/he engages in conduct which tends to effect the commission of such crime. In order to prove attempt, it is necessary to establish that a defendant had the intent to commit a specific offense and that a defendant engaged in some affirmative act to carry out that crime. The elements constituting an offense of prostitution are that a person has engaged in a sexual activity and has done it willfully. Sexual activity may be sexual intercourse or any lewd acts that may arouse sexual feelings.