The relationship between commercial sexual exploitation and foster care placement in the US: a scoping review

AE Dunnigan, RA Fusco - Child Abuse & Neglect, 2024 - Elsevier
Background There is evidence youth in foster care may be vulnerable to commercial and
sexual exploitation of children (CSEC) in the US Youth in care may show vulnerabilities …

“She was willing to send me there”: Intrafamilial child sexual abuse, exploitation and trafficking of boys

ELM Pacheco, AE Buenaventura, GM Miles - Child Abuse & Neglect, 2023 - Elsevier
Background Boys subject to intrafamilial child sexual exploitation and abuse (CSEA)-in
particular, cases which begin as incest and later evolve into child trafficking for sexual …

Power and Control Dynamics in Domestic Sex Trafficking: A Systematic Review

AHH Deitz - Journal of Human Trafficking, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT US citizens sex trafficked domestically (survivors of domestic sex trafficking, or
SDSTs), a population comprising many cisgender women and girls, encounter complex …

How do providers assess young people for risk of sex trafficking? Observed indicators, follow-up, and assessment questions from a sample of social service providers

LB Gerassi, C Cruys, N Hendry… - Children and youth …, 2023 - Elsevier
The extent to which service providers across systems identify and assess potentially sex
trafficked youth is understudied. The purpose of this study is to determine whether and how …

Practitioners' perspectives on working with families of minors experiencing sex trafficking: Family risk factors and implications for family based interventions

AJ Nichols, M Oberstaedt, S Slutsker, K Gilbert - Child Abuse & Neglect, 2024 - Elsevier
Purpose The current study explored family risk factors for sex trafficking of minors and the
implications for family based interventions post identification. Methods Drawing from 30 …

Engaging victims of child sex trafficking: Training for child welfare workers

C Harmon-Darrow, A Rubenstein… - Social Work …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Child sex trafficking (CST) is the exploitation through commercial sex of a minor under 18.
Federal law requires state child welfare agencies to respond and provide services to victims …

Verified Human Trafficking Allegations Among Single and Dual System-Involved Children: Predicting Initial and Repeat Victimization

S Cutbush Starseed, M Kluckman… - Child …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
There is a dearth of research examining repeat human trafficking victimization among
children involved with the child welfare system (ie, single system involvement) and children …

Sex Work and Educational Mobility: Results from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health

J Jones, A Testa, DB Jackson, JM Nagata… - Archives of Sexual …, 2024 - Springer
The purpose of the study was to assess the relationship between sex work involvement and
education mobility among a national sample of US young adults. Data from the National …

Struggling, Alone, and Exposed

K Benvenuto, J Connolly - Child Welfare, 2024 - JSTOR
The present study explored how the COVID-19 pandemic affected the risk of sex trafficking
among adolescents in care through the lens of 25 child welfare workers in 2021. Results …

Patterns and The Role of The Government in Preventing Human Trafficking

N Rahmania, AZ Nirmala, AA Dudy, S Ashady - Dialogia Iuridica, 2023 - 114.7.153.31
Human Trafficking is an iceberg phenomenon that is growing all over the world including in
Indonesia. Indonesia is a tier 2 surveillance country because human trafficking cases are …