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Articles on Child sex trafficking

May 10, 2021

Want to save the children? How child sexual abuse and human trafficking really work

Alexandra Baxter, Flinders University

Child sexual abuse and child sex trafficking are serious problems. Misinformation is harming efforts to combat them.

May 6, 2021

Julia Laite, Birkbeck, University of London

A missing girl, a sensational trial, and the troubled history of anti-trafficking.

August 5, 2019

Genevieve Fuji Johnson, Simon Fraser University

Citizens-watch programs designed by police to aid anti-trafficking efforts threaten the rights and safety of sex workers.

July 12, 2019

Larissa Christensen, University of the Sunshine Coast; Nadine McKillop, University of the Sunshine Coast, and Susan Rayment-McHugh, University of the Sunshine Coast

Sex trafficking is the most common form of human trafficking. Globally, an estimated 4.8 million people are forced into sexual exploitation.

Larissa Christensen
Senior Lecturer in Criminology & Justice | Co-leader of the Sexual Violence Research and Prevention Unit (SVRPU), University of the Sunshine Coast
Nadine McKillop
Deputy Head of School (Research) | Senior Lecturer in Criminology & Justice | Co-leader of the Sexual Violence Research and Prevention Unit (SVRPU), School of Law and Society, University of the Sunshine Coast
Susan Rayment-McHugh
Lecturer in Criminology and Justice & Co-Leader of the Sexual Violence Research and Prevention Unit, University of the Sunshine Coast
Alexandra Baxter
Human trafficking and modern slavery researcher, Flinders University
Genevieve Fuji Johnson
Professor, Political Science and Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies, Simon Fraser University
Kerry Porth
Sex Worker Rights Activist, Independent Scholar
Julia Laite
Reader In Modern History, Department Of History, Classics & Archaeology, Birkbeck, University of London