Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking: Beyond Victims and Villains
Alexandra Lutnick
Language: English
Pages: 200
ISBN: 0231169213
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
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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(Institute of Medicine and the National Research Council 2013). A young transgender woman in Chicago wanted to be connected with other transgender youth. Her case man- MESOSYSTEM CHALLENGES ı 71 ager shared that even though “there are a couple really great organizations in Chicago, they’re all in the Northside . . . [and the client] wasn’t able to get to the Northside where the other great organizations are” (E. Knowles Wirsing, personal communication, March 2, 2011). In less resource-rich.
Juncture. Somehow it’s assumed that if you are in need of any support, you couldn’t possibly also have a family” (M. Vilson, personal communication, May 21, 2012). Because these youth are younger than eighteen, want to avoid child welfare, and want to live with their intimate partners, they have limited to no housing options available to them. Seeing how homelessness creates a need to engage in sex trades, housing options are desperately needed for young people. Although this need is 100 ı.
Young men. These placements leave them vulnerable to verbal, physical, and sexual assaults by staff and peers alike. To address young people’s concern about safety and increase the likelihood that transgender youth will access housing options, programs must incorporate the needs of transgender youth into their protocols. These protocols would allow for assignment of placements and housing accommodations to be based on a person’s self-reported gender identity and would work toward having private.
More about youth who have received services who are domestic minor victims of sex trafficking. It is really important that I do not learn the identity of this young person. What is a fake name that you will use throughout this interview? [NAME]. I’ll be taking notes, but if you don’t mind, I’d also like to record the conversation as a backup for our own use. Is that okay? Do you have any questions before we begin? Start recorder. DEMOGRAPHICS 1. First I’ll be asking some basic demographic.
Institutions and groups that most immediately and di- rectly impact the young person, including OVC-funded program, family, school, religious institutions, neighborhood, and peers. PROGRAM SPECIFIC: Problems unique to the structure or functioning of the program. ENGAGEMENT: Ways in which the young person interacts with overall program. Includes other services the person receives beyond case management. Includes when the young person is no longer accessing services. ENTRY: How young person first.