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Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking: Beyond Victims and Villains
Alexandra Lutnick
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Description for Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking: Beyond Victims and Villains
Hardback. Num Pages: 200 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBTS; JFFE2; JKV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 454.
The domestic sex trafficking of minors is a problem of growing concern yet little critical attention. This book analyzes the forces behind the sex-trafficking industry in the United States and provides a much-needed reference for practitioners. It adopts a holistic approach, pursuing a nuanced exploration of these young people's experiences, their treatment, and outside efforts to combat sex trafficking. The book features interviews with service providers and experts, and incorporates recent research, thereby mapping the complex factors associated with young people's involvement in trading sex and the social connections that facilitate their behavior. It considers the experiences of both ... Read more
The domestic sex trafficking of minors is a problem of growing concern yet little critical attention. This book analyzes the forces behind the sex-trafficking industry in the United States and provides a much-needed reference for practitioners. It adopts a holistic approach, pursuing a nuanced exploration of these young people's experiences, their treatment, and outside efforts to combat sex trafficking. The book features interviews with service providers and experts, and incorporates recent research, thereby mapping the complex factors associated with young people's involvement in trading sex and the social connections that facilitate their behavior. It considers the experiences of both ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231169202
SKU
V9780231169202
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About Alexandra Lutnick
Alexandra Lutnick is a senior research scientist for the San Francisco-based Urban Health Program at RTI International's Behavioral Health and Criminal Justice Research Division. Her research interests include the sex industry, trafficking, human rights, criminalization, and substance abuse.
Reviews for Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking: Beyond Victims and Villains
Lutnick's is a much-needed scholarly voice in a research field that is dominated by condemnatory prurience, earnest expose, and salacious melodrama. Her book has the potential to shake up the various anti-trafficking groups-several of which base their proposed solutions and fundraising on ideas that Lutnick will challenge-and therefore change the way that we all talk about and respond to trafficking. ... Read more