Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking : Beyond Victims and Villains / Alexandra Lutnick.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lutnick, Alexandra, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Teenage prostitution--United States.

Teenage prostitution.

Human trafficking--United States.

Human trafficking.

Prostitutes--Services for--United States.

Prostitutes.

Social work with prostitutes--United States.

Social work with prostitutes.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (198 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2016]

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)

ISBN:

9780231540834

0231540833

OCLC:

936117844