Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking: A Network of Underground Players in the Midwest

Williamson, Celia; Prior, Michael

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“…Traffickers and pimps prey on their vulnerability and lie, coerce, or force adolescents into the commercial sex industry (Cianciarulo, 2008;Williamson & Cluse-Tolar, 2002). Traffickers sometimes pose as peers -friends or boyfriends -who introduce them to the sex trade (Williamson & Prior, 2009). …”

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Putting the Pieces Back Together: A Group Intervention for Sexually Exploited Adolescent Girls

Hickle

Roe‐Sepowitz

2014

Social Work with Groups

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Article (Unspecified) http://sro.sussex.ac.uk Hickle, Kristine E and Roe-Sepowitz, Dominique E (2014) Putting the pieces back together: a group intervention for sexually exploited adolescent girls. Social Work With Groups, 37 (2). pp. [99][100][101][102][103][104][105][106][107][108][109][110][111][112][113] This version is available from Sussex Research Online: http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/49718/ This document is made available in accordance with publisher policies and may differ from the published version or from the version of record. If you wish to cite this item you are advised to consult the publisher's version. Please see the URL above for details on accessing the published version. Copyright and reuse:Sussex Research Online is a digital repository of the research output of the University.Copyright and all moral rights to the version of the paper presented here belong to the individual author(s) and/or other copyright owners. To the extent reasonable and practicable, the material made available in SRO has been checked for eligibility before being made available.Copies of full text items generally can be reproduced, displayed or performed and given to third parties in any format or medium for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-profit purposes without prior permission or charge, provided that the authors, title and full bibliographic details are credited, a hyperlink and/or URL is given for the original metadata page and the content is not changed in any way. Running head: PUTTING THE PIECES BACK TOGETHER Putting the Pieces Back Together: A Group Intervention for SexuallyExploited Adolescent Girls KRISTINE E. HICKLE and DOMINIQUE E. ROE-SEPOWITZ Arizona State University, School of Social Work, Phoenix, AZ, USA Domestic minor sex trafficking (DMST) is an emerging problem affecting adolescents, families, and communities throughout the United States. Despite a growing awareness of the problem, information regarding treatment is limited. This paper describes a pilot group intervention created for use with DMST victims, focusing specifically on areas that were critical to the development and life of the group: 1) providing education about DMST, 2) reducing shame and addressing stigma, 3) mutual aid, and 4) managing strong emotions through the development of new coping skills. Process examples are given to illustrate this pilot intervention, and recommendations for research and practice are discussed.

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Section: Literature Review Risk Factors For Dmst Victimizationmentioning

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Putting the Pieces Back Together: A Group Intervention for Sexually Exploited Adolescent Girls

Hickle

Roe‐Sepowitz

2014

Social Work with Groups

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“…Victims of TIP and CSEC have been studied through different sampling methods: snowball or chain referral (Acharya, 2015), respondent-driven (Marcus et al, 2012), convenience (Chin & Finckenauer, 2011), a mix of simulated clients and snowball (Acharya, 2010), target samples (Goldenberg et al, 2015) and samples drawn from institutions (Williamson & Prior, 2009). In this research, we examined 10 identified cases of CSEC survivors sheltered in a not-for-profit institution in Mexico City.…”

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“…However, a variety of individuals take part in CSEC. There are direct exploiters such as pimps and sex buyers, as well as traffickers and often their underground networks composed by connectors, transporters, recruiters, traders, "mommies," groomers, bottoms, watchers, and wives-in-law that promote and perpetrate the abuse (for definitions see Chin & Finckenauer, 2011;Territo & Kirkham, 2010;Williamson & Prior, 2009). A recent study in two major U.S. cities, however, found that exploiters tend to act without these support networks (Marcus, Horning, Curtis, Sanson, & Thompson, 2014).…”

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“…1 According to Williamson and Prior (2009;p. 47), in the U.S. the Trafficking Victims Protection Act, "helped to change the language of child sex trafficking in the U.S. (…) the act of manipulating a child into prostitution is now called child sex trafficking and those who were once pimps are now referred to as traffickers."…”

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“…Chin and Finckenauer (2011) have questioned this view because traffickers recruit their victims using a variety of methods. Methods may include seduction (developing a romantic relationship), fake job offers (as dancers, hostesses or models), finesse pimping (manipulating victims to make them believe they had to pay back kindnesses shown to them through commercial sex), trading, and abduction, as well as guerrilla pimping (the exploitation of victims through the use of threat, intimidation and/or physical violence) (Kara, 2009;Meshkovska et al, 2015;Pinheiro, 2006;Williamson & Prior, 2009). The most common technique worldwide is based on seduction.…”

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Child and Adolescent Commercial Sexual Exploitation in Mexico: The Exploiters and the State

Frías¹,

Zaldívar²

2017

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Commercial sexual exploitation of children (CSEC) is a form of violence in which children, mainly girls and female adolescents, are reduced to sexual objects for rent. In this study, we argue that the concept of who is an exploiter must be broadened to include everyone who directly or indirectly benefits from CSEC. This paper is based on life stories of 10 female residents from a shelter, which we call Casa Libertad (a fictitious name) in Mexico City, for female victims of violence. Researchers also used semi-structured interviews with experts on CSEC to examine the exploiters' profiles. The research challenges the social representation of all exploiters as members of criminal trafficking networks. Some of the girls did not have direct exploiters, but often acted on their own. Among the victims who had exploiters, relatives and acquaintances played a central role. Our data revealed that the Mexican State, which formally prevents exploitation and assists victims, also contributes by action by not enforcing CSEC existing laws. The State also does not provide sufficient services to victims and has in its ranks sex buyers and abusers.

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Victims of Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking

Schauer¹,

Elechi²

2013

The Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice

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It is estimated that between 100,000 and 300,000 American children and youth are sexually exploited annually for commercial purposes. A significant proportion of the child victims of domestic minor sex trafficking (DMST) are runaways, street youths who engage in survival sex. Many victims of DMST have been sexually exploited either at home or elsewhere. It is estimated that the average age at which a girl is recruited into prostitution by traffickers is 12 to 14 years. The majority of the people who engage in the sexual exploitation of minors are men between the ages of 20 and 65. Child pornography and juvenile prostitution are examples of the sexual exploitation of children. Victims of DMST and offenders reflect all strata of American society. This entry examines the problem of DMST and the effectiveness of the laws which protect children from sexual exploitation.

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Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking: A Network of Underground Players in the Midwest

Cited by 113 publications

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Putting the Pieces Back Together: A Group Intervention for Sexually Exploited Adolescent Girls

Putting the Pieces Back Together: A Group Intervention for Sexually Exploited Adolescent Girls

Child and Adolescent Commercial Sexual Exploitation in Mexico: The Exploiters and the State

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