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    Resources for Bought and Sold

    Further reading and materials related to the radio documentary Bought and Sold.

    May 12, 2016

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    STUDIES

    The Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children in New York City
    Center for Court Innovation, John Jay College of Criminal Justice

    Estimating the Size and Structure of the Underground Commercial Sex Economy in Eight Major US Cities
    Urban Institute

    Evaluation of Services for Domestic Minor Victims of Human Trafficking
    RTI International

    Identifying Challenges to Improve the Investigation and Prosecution of State and Local Human Trafficking Cases
    Northeastern University, Urban Institute

    Identifying Effective Counter-Trafficking Programs and Practices in the U.S.: Legislative, Legal, and Public Opinion Strategies that Work
    Texas Christian University, Northeastern University, Colorado College

    Mapping the Market for Sex with Trafficked Minor Girls in Minneapolis: Structures, Functions, and. Patterns.
    University of Minnesota Urban Research and Outreach-Engagement Center

    Measuring the Nature and Extent of Gang Involvement in Sex Trafficking in San Diego
    University of San Diego, Point Loma Nazarene University

    New laws but few cases: Understanding the challenges to the investigation and prosecution of human trafficking cases
    Crime, Law and Social Change

    No Love for Children: Reciprocity, Science, and Engagement in the Study of Child Sex Trafficking
    Ethical Concerns in Research on Human Trafficking

    Ordinary or Peculiar Men? Comparing the Customers of Prostitutes With a Nationally Representative Sample of Men
    International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology

    Prosecuting Human Trafficking Cases: Lessons Learned and Promising Practices
    ICF International

    Prostitution 2.0: The Changing Face of Sex Work
    University of Iowa

    Review of Existing Estimates of Victims of Human Trafficking in the United States and Recommendations for Improving Research and Measurement of Human Trafficking Amy Farrell, Jack McDevitt, Noam Perry, Stephanie Fahy, Kate Chamberlain, William Adams, Colleen Owens, Meredith Dank, Michael Shively, Ryan Kling, and Kristin Wheeler. Final Report to Humanity United, 2009.

    Sex Workers Perspectives on Strategies to Reduce Sexual Exploitation and HIV Risk: A Qualitative Study in Tijuana, Mexico
    PLoS ONE

    Structural and Environmental Barriers to Condom Use Negotiation With Clients Among Female Sex Workers: Implications for HIV-Prevention Strategies and Policy
    American Journal of Public Health

    Youth Involvement in the Sex Trade
    Center for Court Innovation

    BOOKS

    Domestic minor sex trafficking: Beyond victims and villains
    Alexandra Lutnick

    Girls Like Us
    Rachel Lloyd

    Somebody's Daughter: The Hidden Story of America's Prostituted Children and the Battle to Save Them
    Julian Sher

    ADVOCACY RESEARCH

    Child Sex Trafficking Fact Sheet
    National Center for Missing and Exploited Children

    Demandforum.net: Resources for the Prevention of Prostitution and Sex Trafficking
    Abt Associates

    Sex Trafficking in the U.S.: A Closer Look at U.S. Citizen Victims
    Polaris Project

    Learn About Sex Work: Further Reading
    Sex Workers Outreach Project

    State Law Survey: Prohibiting Criminalization of Juvenile Sex Trafficking Victims Under State Prostitution Laws
    Shared Hope International

    GOVERNMENT DATA

    2014 Crime in the United States Report
    Criminal Justice Information Services Division

    Characteristics of Suspected Human Trafficking Incidents, 2008-2010
    Bureau of Justice Statistics

    Human Trafficking: Data Collection & Reporting Project
    Northeastern University, Bureau of Justice Statistics

    ARTICLES

    Gone Girls: Human Trafficking on the Home Front
    Los Angeles Magazine

    The Myth of the All-Girl, Pimp-Controlled Trafficking Trade
    Dallas Observer

    Running in the Shadows Pt. 1: Recession Drives Surge in Youth Runaways
    The New York Times

    Running in the Shadows Pt. 2: For Runaways, Sex Buys Survival
    The New York Times

    Star Tribune Saving Bobbi series:

    Pt 1: A teen's sex trafficking ordeal
    Pt 2: Lured by drugs, used by pimps
    Pt 3: One cop's determination
    Pt 4: Struggling to find a way forward

    Selling American girls
    Al Jazeera America

    Studies of online child prostitution criticized for methodology
    Minnesota Public Radio

    Washington Post Fact Checker Series:

    The bogus claim that 300,000 U.S. children are 'at risk' of sexual exploitation
    The false claim that human trafficking is a '$9.5 billion business' in the United States
    The fishy claim that '100,000 children' in the United States are in the sex trade
    The Four-Pinocchio claim that 'on average, girls first become victims of sex trafficking at 13 years old'
    Loretta Lynch's false claim on sex trafficking arrests

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