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Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking: Beyond Victims and Villains

Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking: Beyond Victims and Villains

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CriminologyGeneral Racism & Ethnic StudiesGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0231169213
ISBN13: 9780231169219
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: Jan 12 2016
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.80
Language: English

The domestic sex trafficking of minors is a problem of growing concern yet little critical attention. This book analyzes the forces behind the sex-trafficking industry in the United States and provides a much-needed reference for practitioners. It adopts a holistic approach, pursuing a nuanced exploration of these young people's experiences, their treatment, and outside efforts to combat sex trafficking.

The book features interviews with service providers and experts, and incorporates recent research, thereby mapping the complex factors associated with young people's involvement in trading sex and the social connections that facilitate their behavior. It considers the experiences of both those who choose sex work and those who are forced into it by circumstances or third parties, and it discusses the networks of friends and close acquaintances who introduce newcomers to the trade. In addition, it takes a hard look at how local and federal responses to trafficking increase young people's vulnerability to trading sex. Urging policymakers and practitioners to move beyond the simple framework of rescuing victims and punishing villains, this book calls for policies and programs that focus on the failure of social and cultural systems and respond better to the young people caught in this web.

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