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Research Example -- Human Trafficking
An example of library resources used for the topic of "human trafficking of children in the United States"
Search Strategy
Databases: OneSearch, Academic Search Complete, PsychArticles, Military and Government, and Psychology and Behavioral Sciences
Keywords: human trafficking, sex trafficking, children, United States, slavery, anti-trafficking, law enforcement, technology
Sources
Below is a sample of sources that address the questions included in the prompt.
Sex Trafficking of Minors: Overview, Federal Response and Justice Systems Issues by This book discusses the federal responses and justice system issues involved in the sex trafficking of minors.
Understanding Violent Criminals: insights from the front lines of law enforcement by Call Number: HV 6080 .T546 2014What causes people to commit violent crimes? The case studies in this book enable readers to evaluate the motivations behind crimes ranging from arson to rape to gang violence. In this book, readers are given access to excerpts from police interviews for each spotlighted crime in the case studies, offering a unique inside look at the true motivations of the criminal.
Child Exploitation and Trafficking: Examining the Global Challenges and U.S. Responses by The book provides the first comprehensive, practical introduction to the history and present-day reality of child sexual exploitation, as well as to the interconnected web of domestic and transnational federal laws and law enforcement efforts launched in response thereto. It is written from the distinctive perspective of those who have spent their careers in the trenches investigating, prosecuting, and adjudicating these intricate and commonly emotional cases.
- Policing labor trafficking in the United States.This study utilizes data from 86 qualitative interviews with municipal, state, county and federal law enforcement, victim service providers and labor trafficking victims in four US communities to inform our understanding of police responses to labor trafficking in local communities.
- Buying Sex On-Line from Girls: NGO Representatives, Law Enforcement Officials, and Public Officials Speak out About Human Trafficking-A Qualitative AnalysisThis qualitative study focused on learning from NGO
representatives, law enforcement officials, and public officials their experiences
about how men buy girls on-line for sex, and the words that the men use in the
transactions. - Free Speech or Slavery Profiteering?: Solutions for Policing Online Sex-Trafficking AdvertisementThe marketplace for sex has moved from the street
corner to classified ad websites such as Backpage.com, and all too often
the victims of online sex trafficking are minors.