Helping Survivors of Human Trafficking: A Systematic Review of Exit and Postexit Interventions

Dell, Nathaniel A.; Maynard, Brandy R.; Born, Kara R.; Wagner, Elizabeth; Atkins, Bonnie; House, Whitney

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“…Fraley et al (2020) conclude that females are targeted via fraud, coercion, places in which children congregate as well as through friends who are the recruiters. Dell et al (2019), in their systematic review, postulate that human trafficking survivors' intervention and impactful financial assistance is direly missing. According to the United States inquiry, numerous policies have been enacted to deal with human trafficking internally and internationally.…”

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“…There are a few works of literature on COVID-19 (del Rio & Malani, 2020;Li et al, 2020;Remuzzi & Remuzzi, 2020;van Staden, 2020). A number of scholarly writings exist on the current human trafficking perspectives of girls and women (Dell et al, 2019;Fraley et al, 2020;Latzman et al, 2019;Usman, 2014). These reviews point out COVID-19 and human trafficking as two critical global menaces.…”

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The COVID-19 pandemic: Theoretical and practical perspectives on children, women and sex trafficking

Asongu

Usman

2020

Health Care for Women International

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We provide theoretical and practical perspectives on children, women, and sex trafficking during the COVID-19 pandemic. Process tracing is employed as a primary research instrument. It is an analytical technique used for either theory-building or theory-testing purposes that is employed to elucidate causation and change as well as to develop and evaluate extant theories in social sciences. We illustrate that a policy is needed that will strengthen the capacity of existing structures in the fight against the underlying trafficking so that these attendant structures are efficiently used to stop the trafficking and avoid the corresponding threats to public health safety.

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The COVID-19 pandemic: Theoretical and practical perspectives on children, women and sex trafficking

Asongu

Usman

2020

Health Care for Women International

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“…There are a few works of literature on Covid-19 (del Rio and Malani, 2020;Remuzzi and Remuzzi, 2020;van Staden, 2020;Li et al, 2020). A number of scholarly writings exist on the current human trafficking perspectives of girls and women (Atkins and House, 2019;Dell et al, 2019;Fraley, Aronowitz, and Stoklosa, 2020;Latzman et al, 2019;Usman, 2014). These reviews point out Covid-19 and human trafficking as two critical global menaces.…”

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The COVID-19 Pandemic: Theoretical and Practical Perspectives on Children, Women and Sex Trafficking

Asongu

Usman

2020

SSRN Journal

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We provide theoretical and practical perspectives on children, women, and sex trafficking during the Covid-19 pandemic. Process tracing is employed as a primary research instrument. It is an analytical technique used for either theory-building or theory-testing purposes that is employed to elucidate causation and change as well as to develop and evaluate extant theories in social sciences. We illustrate that a policy is needed that will strengthen the capacity of existing structures in the fight against the underlying trafficking so that these attendant structures are efficiently used to stop the trafficking and avoid the corresponding threats to public health safety.

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“…For example, no one knows for certain the extent to which CSEC occurs, who are the perpetrators involved, and how many children are victims (Barnert et al., 2017; Moynihan et al., 2018). No one knows whether programs to address the needs of child victims of commercial sexual exploitation benefit or harm them (Dell et al., 2017; Gerassi, 2017; Goldberg & Moore, 2018). And there is scant evidence on whether established interventions to prevent and combat CSEC work to reduce victimization (Barnert et al., 2017; Coleman, 2016; Davy, 2016; Felner & DuBois, 2017; van der Laan, Smit, Busschers, Aarten, & van der Laan, 2011).…”

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Criminology & Public Policy

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Research Summary Safe harbor laws are designed to redirect young victims of commercial sexual exploitation away from justice system involvement by prohibiting their arrest and prosecution as criminals. A quasi‐experimental design was used to compare prostitution‐related crime and sex abuse maltreatment trends at the county level in states that have implemented safe harbor laws with a comparison group of counties in states that have not implemented safe harbor laws. Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) were used to measure prostitution‐related crime trends, while National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System (NCANDS) data were used to measure sex abuse maltreatment trends. We used a multilevel Poisson regression model to analyze the change in prostitution‐related crime and sex abuse maltreatment trends in treatment and comparison counties over an 11‐year observation period (2005–15). Policy Implications Overall, the findings provide a striking perspective into the current U.S. landscape of dealing with the commercial sexual exploitation of juveniles. To that end, the decline in the number of overall and juvenile arrests across all prostitution‐related offenses suggests that safe harbor laws were effective in redirecting young victims away from system involvement. But the systematic provision of treatment services envisioned to go to these young victims has, to date, not become a reality. Nevertheless, these findings offer policymakers a foundation of evidence that can be used to engage intelligently and knowledgeably with regard to the current state of U.S. policy.

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Helping Survivors of Human Trafficking: A Systematic Review of Exit and Postexit Interventions

Abstract: Evidence of effects of exit and postexit interventions is sparse, and much of the research is poorly designed and executed; however, the needs of trafficking survivors are complex and effective interventions are desperately needed. Implications for practice and research are discussed.

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The COVID-19 pandemic: Theoretical and practical perspectives on children, women and sex trafficking

The COVID-19 pandemic: Theoretical and practical perspectives on children, women and sex trafficking

The COVID-19 Pandemic: Theoretical and Practical Perspectives on Children, Women and Sex Trafficking

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