In the past two decades, the fight against human sex trafficking has become an evangelical mission but sex-worker rights advocates have rejected the conflation of sex trafficking and prostitution.
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The Crossing tells the story of a girl who had been trafficked using the ‘lover boy’ technique.
July 30 marks the United Nations’ World Day Against Trafficking in Persons. How can computer scientists help combat this problem?
Two criminologists wanted to learn the tricks of the trade so they went to the source, interviewing over 70 pimps.
When a child dies from neglect or maltreatment from parents, outraged observers demand at-risk kids be placed in foster care. But the US foster care system can pose risks for children, too.
Theresa May’s much vaunted Modern Slavery Bill is designed to stamp out what she describes as a “disgusting trade in human beings”, and a new report on trafficking from the National Crime Agency (NCA…
Cases in which women or children have been forced into prostitution under the violent control of a third party are often described as the tip of a very large iceberg. One of the principal statistical claims…
The moral panic on the supposed prevalence of trafficking in the global sex industry rests on a lie: that the majority of sex workers are trafficked. In fact, the opposite is true. However, on the basis…
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Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Richmond
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Professor of Sociology, University of Nottingham
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Human trafficking and modern slavery researcher, Flinders University
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Professor of Sociology and Migration Studies, London Metropolitan University
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Professor of Criminal Justice and Criminology, Loyola University Chicago
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Professor of Religious Studies, College of the Holy Cross
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Director of the School of Criminal Justice, Michigan State University
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Senior Lecturer in Criminology & Justice | Co-leader of the Sexual Violence Research and Prevention Unit (SVRPU), University of the Sunshine Coast
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Assistant Professor of Operations and Industrial Engineering, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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Associate Professor of Operations and Industrial Engineering, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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Director, StoryLab Research Institute, Anglia Ruskin University
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Professor of Social Work, Wayne State University
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Associate Professor; Religious and Cultural Studies; Gender and Sexuality; History of Christianity, Concordia University
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Assistant Professor of Social Work, Wayne State University
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Associate Professor, Griffith University
