Alexandra Lutnick

Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking (eBook, ePUB)

Beyond Victims and Villains

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780231540834
• Artikelnr.: 44367102

Autorenporträt

Alexandra Lutnick is a senior research scientist for the San Francisco-based Urban Health Program at RTI International's Behavioral Health and Criminal Justice Research Division. Her research interests include the sex industry, trafficking, human rights, criminalization, and substance abuse.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations and Tables
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction
2. Timing of Initiation: Routes Into and Reasons for Involvement in Sex
Trades
3. Linked Lives: Third Parties, Violence, and Transitions in Involvement
4. Service Needs and Microsystem Challenges
5. Mesosystem Challenges: Interactions Between Case Managers and Other
Systems
6. From Criminalization to Decriminalization: Local Responses to Domestic
Minor Sex Trafficking
7. Macrosystem Challenges: The Impact of Policies and Culture
8. Conclusion
Appendix A: Study Site Information
Appendix B: Methodological Process
Appendix C: Case Narrative Interview Guide
Appendix D: Qualitative Analysis Code List
Appendix E: Sample Characteristics
Notes
References
Index