Sex Trafficking and Commercial Sexual Exploitation - Lara Gerassi, Andrea J. Nichols

Sex Trafficking and Commercial Sexual Exploitation

Prevention, Advocacy, and Trauma-Informed Practice
Buch | Softcover
266 Seiten
2017
Springer Publishing Co Inc (Verlag)
978-0-8261-4974-9 (ISBN)
79,95 inkl. MwSt
Analyses the current research and best practices for working with children, adolescents, and adults involved in sex trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation (CSE). With a unique, research-based focus on practice, the book synthesizes the key areas related to working with victims of sex trafficking / CSE, including prevention, identification, practice techniques, and program design.
This is the first comprehensive text to critically analyze the current research and best practices for working with children, adolescents, and adults involved in sex trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation (CSE). With a unique, research-based focus on practice, the book synthesizes the key areas related to working with victims of sex trafficking/CSE including prevention, identification, practice techniques, and program design as well as suggested interagency, criminal justice, and legislative responses. Best practices are examined through an intersectional, trauma-informed lens that adheres to principles of cultural competency.

Highlights include:



Integrates a trauma-informed lens in practice, program design, and interagency responses.
Uses an intersectional approach to examine identity-based oppression such as race, class, sex, LGBTQ identities, age, immigration status, and intellectual disabilities.
Highlights the importance of cultural competency in practice and program design, prevention and outreach efforts, and interagency and criminal justice system responses.
Reviews the different types of sex trafficking and CSE, the physiological and psychological effects, various risk factors, and the distinct needs of survivors to encourage practitioners to tailor interventions to the specific needs of each client.
Examines the role of social workers and practitioners in interagency, legislative, and criminal justice responses to sex trafficking.
Takes a broad societal perspective by examining the role of macro-level risk factors facilitating sex trafficking victimization.

The book analyzes the commonly reported indicators of sex trafficking/CSE, how to conduct a screening with potential victims, and direct practice techniques with various populations including evidence-based trauma treatments. Other chapters guide the reader in implementing trauma-informed programming in a variety of organizational settings, advocating for sex trafficking and CSE survivors within the criminal justice system, and implementing effective prevention and outreach programs in schools and community organizations.

Intended as a text for upper-division courses on sex or human trafficking, interventions with women, trauma interventions, violence against women, or gender and crime taught in social work, psychology, counseling, and criminal justice, this book is also an ideal resource for practitioners working with victims of sex trafficking and CSE in a variety of settings including child protective services, the criminal justice system, health care, schools, and more.

Lara B. Gerassi, PhD, LCSW, is an assistant professor at the School of Social Work and an affiliate of the Department of Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Wisconsin- Madison. Andrea J. Nichols, PhD is a Carnegie Award-winning professor of sociology at St. Louis Community College at Forest Park, and lecturer and anti-trafficking initiative coordinator at Washington University in St. Louis.

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

1. Introduction


Definitions and Use of Terms

Types of Sex Trafficking and Commercial Sexual Exploitation

Characteristics of Sex-Trafficked People

Prevalence and the Need for Services

Physiological and Psychological Effects

Chapter Overviews

References

2. Prevention and Outreach

Risk Factors: Guiding Targeted Prevention and Outreach

Prevention Education

Outreach Preventing Further Trafficking/CSE

Conclusion

References

3. Identification and Screening

Identification of Sex Trafficking and CSE

Conducting a Screening With Potential Victims or Survivors

Barriers and Facilitators to Identification and Screening

Conclusion

References

4. Direct Practice

Practice Theories and Frameworks

Trauma-Based Treatments

Evidence-Based Mental Health Treatments

Population-Specific Practice Considerations

Conclusion

References

5. Programmatic Design

Trauma-Informed Programming

Importance of Long-Term Care

Trafficking-Specific Services

Non-Trafficking-Specific Services

Barriers and Facilitators to Social Service Access and Engagement

Conclusion

References

6. Interagency and Community-Based-Responses (CBRs)

Background: Interagency and Community-Based Responses

Anti-Sex-Trafficking Coalitions

Avoiding Re-Exploitation/Revictimization of Survivors in Coalition Work

Conclusion

References

7. Criminal Justice System and Legislative Responses

Legal Framework of Sex Trafficking

Prosecution

Conclusion

References

8. Recommendations and Reflections

Recommendations

Reflections

References

Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Persönlichkeitsstörungen
Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Sozialpädagogik
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 0-8261-4974-X / 082614974X
ISBN-13 978-0-8261-4974-9 / 9780826149749
Zustand Neuware
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