PSYC 353 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Treatment As Prevention, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Homicide
28 Feb 2018
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Created tools to combat human trafficking by developing definitions, guidelines, and federal/state/local coordination of anti-human-trafficking work. Used language regarding force, fraud, and coercion to create specific description of experiences and legal parameters for criminal cases. Participants in sex-trafficking situations are often out of sight in our communities or hidden populations. There"s no reporting mechanism for each state required for all service providers. Few systems (child welfare and juvenile service) have mechanisms to detect and identify sex-trafficking cases among the youth they serve; do not have flags in their assessment system to obtain a count of victims they may encounter. Very few agencies are serving only sex-trafficking victims, so proper surveys are not conducted. 100,000 youths (18 and under) in u. s. sex trade. Difficulties of obtaining accurate estimate of victims due to: Chapter 9: human trafficking a spotlight on sex trafficking. Limited research due to complexity of developing an accurate count.
