Journal article | Zeitschriftenartikel

Safe Harbor legislation for juvenile victims of sex trafficking: a myopic view of improvements in practice

Current social and political realties have focused attention on human trafficking in the United States. Although new mechanisms for criminalizing offenders and protecting victims are increasingly funded and implemented across the country, empirical exploration into the efficacy of these interventions is lacking. This article uses yearly count data on juvenile prostitution arrests aggregated at the state level to explore the criminalization of commercial sexually exploited children post safe harbor policy implementation. Preliminary data from four states suggests that the passage of safe harbor laws may not reduce the number of juveniles arrested for prostitution crimes. Implications for future research are discussed.

ISSN
2183-2803
Extent
Seite(n): 52-62
Language
Englisch
Notes
Status: Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)

Bibliographic citation
Social Inclusion, 3(1)

Subject
Soziologie, Anthropologie
Jugendsoziologie, Soziologie der Kindheit
Kriminalsoziologie, Rechtssoziologie, Kriminologie
Kriminalität
Menschenhandel
USA
Opfer
Jugendlicher
Kind
Prostitution
Kriminalisierung
Freiheitsstrafe
sexueller Missbrauch

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Mehlman-Orozco, Kimberly
Event
Veröffentlichung
(when)
2015

DOI
Last update
21.06.2024, 4:26 PM CEST

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  • Zeitschriftenartikel

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  • Mehlman-Orozco, Kimberly

Time of origin

  • 2015

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