Understanding and Pursuing Labor Trafficking Cases Collaboratively
Societies, 2023 The disparity between sex and labor federal prosecutions in the United States underscores the significant degree to which labor trafficking investigations and prosecutions have been marginalized since the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA) was ...
Derek J. Marsh
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Labor trafficking in marijuana production: a hidden epidemic in the shadows of the cannabis industry [PDF]
Frontiers in Sociology, 2023 Labor trafficking in marijuana production remains a concealed epidemic within the expanding cannabis industry. This abstract brings attention to the systemic exploitation of vulnerable individuals engaged in cultivating, harvesting, and processing ...
Jaya Prakash +6 more
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Social Sciences, 2021 Research suggests that runaway and homeless youth (RHY) in the United States are vulnerable to sex and labor trafficking. In this paper, we report and analyze estimates of sex and labor trafficking collected as part of the Atlanta Youth Count 2018, a ...
Eric R. Wright +10 more
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Validation of a screening tool for labor and sex trafficking among emergency department patients
Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians Open, 2021 Objective Patients with labor and sex trafficking experiences seek healthcare while and after being trafficked. Their trafficking experiences are often unrecognized by clinicians who lack a validated tool to systematically screen for trafficking.
Makini Chisolm‐Straker +8 more
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An Alabama-tailored human trafficking response protocol within the Community, Advocacy, Law, and Medicine framework: a state-adaptable model [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychiatryHuman trafficking is a major public health and human rights concern associated with high rates of psychiatric disorders, substance use disorders, chronic medical illness, and ongoing exposure to trauma.
Cassie Wicken +11 more
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Online labor trafficking and machine learning: A scoping review and research agenda. [PDF]
PLoS ONELabor trafficking increasingly intersects with online environments, yet there are limited computational detection approaches. To examine existing methods and their potential applications, this article reviews literature that applies or advocates ...
Rebaka Pradhan, Onn Shehory
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Reports and Victims of Sex and Labor Trafficking in a Major Midwest Metropolitan Area, 2008-2017 [PDF]
Public Health Reports, 2019 Michelle Teti +2 more
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Understanding the role of transportation in combating human trafficking in California
Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives, 2022 Human trafficking, a form of modern slavery, is the recruitment, transport, transfer of persons using force, fraud or coercion to exploit them for act of labor or sex.
Kezban Yagci Sokat
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BMC Public Health, 2021 Background Human trafficking is a critical public health issue particularly pervasive in the Indian states of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh (UP), which share a border with Nepal.
Courtney Julia Burns +2 more
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Identification of skin signs in human-trafficking survivors
International Journal of Women's Dermatology, 2021 Human-trafficking survivors suffer significant physical, mental, and social health consequences, prompting them to seek health care services. Although there is research regarding identification protocols for human-trafficking victims, there is no ...
Raaga Rambhatla, BA +7 more
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