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Between 1% and 9% of sex offenders are female. Many are ‘co-offenders,’ recruiting and manipulating victims for others.
Jeffrey Epstein may be the current face of sex trafficking, but buying and selling youth for sex is a common practice in the US.
Part of a law that goes into effect in New York state on Aug. 14 allows victims more time sue in civil court. Epstein’s victims can still go after his estate.
Citizens-watch programs designed by police to aid anti-trafficking efforts threaten the rights and safety of sex workers.
Sex trafficking is the most common form of human trafficking. Globally, an estimated 4.8 million people are forced into sexual exploitation.
While there’s still a great deal that is unknown about sex trafficking, research studies and nonprofits have been able to gather telling data on this industry’s victims and perpetrators.
Many trafficked victims are female. But what happens when the perpetrator is also female, and was once a victim herself?
Governments should heed the expertise of the grassroots nonprofits that witness this scourge firsthand.
New England Patriots CEO Robert Kraft’s criminal charges in a suspected sex trafficking case draw new attention to this illicit underground economy.
If India really wants to stop sex trafficking, legislators might consider asking sex workers in Kolkata how they keep the Sonagachi red light district safe and exploitation-free.
In the past two decades, the fight against human sex trafficking has become an evangelical mission but sex-worker rights advocates have rejected the conflation of sex trafficking and prostitution.
The Crossing tells the story of a girl who had been trafficked using the ‘lover boy’ technique.
July 30 marks the United Nations’ World Day Against Trafficking in Persons. How can computer scientists help combat this problem?
Two criminologists wanted to learn the tricks of the trade so they went to the source, interviewing over 70 pimps.
When a child dies from neglect or maltreatment from parents, outraged observers demand at-risk kids be placed in foster care. But the US foster care system can pose risks for children, too.
Theresa May’s much vaunted Modern Slavery Bill is designed to stamp out what she describes as a “disgusting trade in human beings”, and a new report on trafficking from the National Crime Agency (NCA…
Cases in which women or children have been forced into prostitution under the violent control of a third party are often described as the tip of a very large iceberg. One of the principal statistical claims…
The moral panic on the supposed prevalence of trafficking in the global sex industry rests on a lie: that the majority of sex workers are trafficked. In fact, the opposite is true. However, on the basis…
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Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Richmond
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Human trafficking and modern slavery researcher, Flinders University
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Professor of Sociology, University of Nottingham
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Clinical Professor of Social Work, Boston University
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Associate Professor in Creative Writing, Griffith University
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Professor of Criminal Justice and Criminology, Loyola University Chicago
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Associate Professor; Religious and Cultural Studies; Gender and Sexuality; History of Christianity, Concordia University
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Associate Professor of Criminology, University of South Florida
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Professor of Criminology, University of South Florida
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Assistant Professor of Operations and Industrial Engineering, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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Associate Professor of Operations and Industrial Engineering, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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Reader In Modern History, Department Of History, Classics & Archaeology, Birkbeck, University of London; Independent Social Research Foundation
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Dean and Professor of Social Work, Wayne State University
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Associate Professor, Criminology & Justice, Co-leader of the Sexual Violence Research and Prevention Unit (SVRPU), School of Law and Society, University of the Sunshine Coast
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Director of the School of Criminal Justice, Michigan State University