Victims and Offenders
Volume 14, Issue 5, 2019, Pages 540-560

A Safe Harbor Is Temporary Shelter, Not A Pathway Forward: How Court-Mandated Sex Trafficking Intervention Fails to Help Girls Quit the Sex Trade (Article)

Luminais M.* , Lovell R. , McGuire M.
  • a Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research & Education, Mandel School for Applied Social Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, United States
  • b Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research & Education, Mandel School for Applied Social Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, United States
  • c Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research & Education, Mandel School for Applied Social Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, United States

Abstract

Results from an evaluation of a juvenile human trafficking court are presented to explore the ways in which tensions between (a) human trafficking rhetoric, (b) a legal framework that cannot resolve the conflict inherent in the victim-delinquent identity required by Safe Harbor legislation, and (c) the lived experiences of youth in the program do not support youth actually quitting the sex trade. Practical hurdles to implementation of the program are also discussed, and recommendations on how other jurisdictions might approach the issue are offered. © 2019, © 2019 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.

Author Keywords

conceptual frameworks specialized dockets intervention Human trafficking Girls Sex trade

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Link
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85069753752&doi=10.1080%2f15564886.2019.1628145&partnerID=40&md5=f3a291d16fb1da4f2a9ba5ef2debfb46
DOI: 10.1080/15564886.2019.1628145
ISSN: 15564886
Original Language: English