Download or read book The Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children in Foster Care written by Tiffany Secrest and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many risk factors and behaviors have been correlated with becoming prostituted. As described by Jessor (1982; 1991), a child's social environment and subsequent behaviors are highly interrelated. The findings on risk factors and behaviors among the foster care population show just how vulnerable they are to negative outcomes, such as becoming commercially sexually exploited minors (CSEM). The purpose of this research was to study youth in the foster care population and examine risk factors and behaviors that make some foster care children more vulnerable to becoming commercially sexually exploited through prostitution. A chart review was conducted on archival data of 603 age-matched female youth who entered into a community mental health clinic for assessment from 2005 to 2008. Analysis shows CSEM were more than three times more likely to have run away or been truant from school than non-CSEM. Five times more CSEM reported drug problem behavior as compared to non-CSEM, with drug use reported by 72 % of CSEM and 29% of non-CS EM. Statistically significant differences were not found in reported risk factors of physical or sexual abuse between CSEM and non-CSEM. Correlations among risk factors and behaviors were examined, with significant positive correlations found among all risk behaviors examined including running away, truancy, drug use, and drug problems. Demographic statistics among CSEM and non-CSEM were also reported. Limitations and suggestions for future research are discussed along with the findings. The findings of this dissertation can help to illuminate some of the risk factors and behaviors placing foster care youth at greater risk for exploitation.
Download or read book Confronting Commercial Sexual Exploitation and Sex Trafficking of Minors in the United States written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2013-11-12 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every day in the United States, children and adolescents are victims of commercial sexual exploitation and sex trafficking. Despite the serious and long-term consequences for victims as well as their families, communities, and society, efforts to prevent, identify, and respond to these crimes are largely under supported, inefficient, uncoordinated, and unevaluated. Confronting Commercial Sexual Exploitation and Sex Trafficking of Minors in the United States examines commercial sexual exploitation and sex trafficking of U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents of the United States under age 18. According to this report, efforts to prevent, identify, and respond to these crimes require better collaborative approaches that build upon the capabilities of people and entities from a range of sectors. In addition, such efforts need to confront demand and the individuals who commit and benefit from these crimes. The report recommends increased awareness and understanding, strengthening of the law's response, strengthening of research to advance understanding and to support the development of prevention and intervention strategies, support for multi-sector and interagency collaboration, and creation of a digital information-sharing platform. A nation that is unaware of these problems or disengaged from solutions unwittingly contributes to the ongoing abuse of minors. If acted upon in a coordinated and comprehensive manner, the recommendations of Confronting Commercial Sexual Exploitation and Sex Trafficking of Minors in the United States can help advance and strengthen the nation's emerging efforts to prevent, identify, and respond to commercial sexual exploitation and sex trafficking of minors in the United States.
Download or read book The Commerical Sexual Exploitation of Children in Foster Care written by Gwynneth F. Smith and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Children who are commercially sexually exploited (CSE), or prostituted, while in foster care are an understudied and vulnerable population. The literature on the causes and consequences of the commercial sexual exploitation of children is sparse, and none currently examines the demographics and needs of this population in a child welfare context. This study is first of its kind to describe a sample of commercially sexually exploited children in foster care. The goals were to understand the demography of this population, document the mental and physical health problems they present with, and to propose legally and clinically informed policy recommendations to address the needs of these children.
Download or read book Confronting Commercial Sexual Exploitation and Sex Trafficking of Minors in the United States written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2014-06-20 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Commercial sexual exploitation and sex trafficking of minors in the United States are frequently overlooked, misunderstood, and unaddressed domestic problems. In the past decade, they have received increasing attention from advocates, the media, academics, and policy makers. However, much of this attention has focused internationally. This international focus has overshadowed the reality that commercial sexual exploitation and sex trafficking of minors also occur every day within the United States. Commercial sexual exploitation and sex trafficking of minors not only are illegal activities, but also result in immediate and long-term physical, mental, and emotional harm to victims and survivors. A nation that is unaware of these problems or disengaged from solving them unwittingly contributes to the ongoing abuse of minors and all but ensures that these crimes will remain marginalized and misunderstood. The 2013 Institute of Medicine and the National Research Council report Confronting Commercial Sexual Exploitation and Sex Trafficking of Minors in the United States increases awareness and understanding of the crucial problem of commercial sexual exploitation and sex trafficking of minors in the United States. By examining emerging strategies for preventing and identifying these crimes, for assisting and supporting victims and survivors, and for addressing exploiters and traffickers, that report offers a path forward through recommendations designed to increase awareness and understanding and to support efforts to prevent, identify, and respond to these crimes. Confronting Commercial Sexual Exploitation and Sex Trafficking of Minors in the United States: A Guide for Providers of Victim and Support Services offers a more concise and focused perspective on the problem and emerging solutions for providers of victim and support services for children and adolescents. These service providers include policy makers, leaders, practitioners, organizations, and programs at the local, state, and federal levels. This guide will be a valuable resource for them, and for child welfare and child protective services, other agencies and programs within the state and federal governments (e.g., the U.S. Department of Justice's Office for Victims of Crime), and nongovernmental organizations.
Download or read book Handbook of Child and Adolescent Sexuality written by Linda M. Williams and published by Elsevier Inc. Chapters. This book was released on 2013-01-28 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Social Workers Awareness of Commercially Sexually Exploited Children Within Foster Care written by Isela Vigil and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this quantitative descriptive study was to examine social workers' level of awareness and their ability to identify, assess, and provide appropriate resources to commercially sexually exploited children within the foster care system. A sample of 103 social workers employed by Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) assigned to Service Planning Area (SPA) 1 were surveyed to examine their self-rated level of awareness in identifying, assessing, and providing appropriate resources to commercially sexually exploited children (CSEC) within the foster care system. Each year more than 300,000 children are victims of commercial sexual exploitation throughout the United States (Adams, Owens & Small, 2010). Research indicates that the majority of these child victims have contact with social workers and the child welfare system (Walker, 2013). Social workers experience challenges in identifying these child victims because these victims present with similar behaviors to non-victims (Pano, 2015). This lack of awareness and difficulty in identifying child victims of commercial sexual exploitation by social workers increases their continued risk of victimization (Blue Campaign, 2014). Our findings indicate that although a majority of Los Angeles County DCFS social workers in SPA 1 have a good understanding of CSEC, they also expressed a need for further in depth CSEC training focusing on interviewing, working with and providing appropriate resources to CSEC within foster care.
Download or read book Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children written by Brandy Bang and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-10-14 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The commercial exploitation of children is a global crisis (Rahman, 2011; Svensson, 2006). However, media outlets and sociological researchers have successfully situated the problem as a primarily Asian, South American, or Eastern European concern. In the process, the exploitation of children in the United States has largely been ignored. The continued trafficking of international youth into this country, coupled with the growing rate at which American born children are targeted by interstate sex traffickers, speaks to the urgency with which the domestic exploitation of children must be addressed (Walker-Rodriguez & Hill, 2011). In fact, research suggests that an average of 250,000 American children and adolescents are at risk of commercial exploitation each year (Estes & Weiner, 2001). Further, there are indications that current data vastly underestimate the actual numbers of vulnerable and victimized youth (Chase & Statham, 2005). According to the U.S. Department of Justice (2007), no systematic efforts have been made to examine the commercial exploitation of children in this country. The low visibilities of the crime, combined with the inherent vulnerability of the victims, have facilitated the continued victimization of these children. The purpose of this book is to provide a critical analysis of the domestic, commercial exploitation of children. A careful explanation of the differing forms of commercial exploitation of children, victim and offender characteristics, and the mechanisms which maintain the problem will assist health care providers, researchers, and law enforcement in their efforts with this marginalized and understudied population. The authors begin with a comprehensive review of extant literature in this area. Additionally, case studies of child sexual exploitation are included to further illustrate the severity, complexity, and depravity of commercial exploitation in real life cases.
Download or read book Preventing Sex Trafficking and Improving Opportunities for Youth in Foster Care Act written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Social Work Practice with Survivors of Sex Trafficking and Commercial Sexual Exploitation written by Andrea J. Nichols and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 717 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As awareness and identification of sex trafficking and exploitation have grown, so has the need for improved social work responses. In this volume, expert practitioners, survivors, and researchers model the best practices for working with this population, using case examples and illustrative guides. Chapters cover the common challenges of working with trafficked and exploited people and how to overcome them, including topics like runaway youth, trauma-bonds, system-level challenges, and resource scarcity. Intended as a teaching tool for students or a supplementary manual for organizations, this book emphasizes interventions and treatments, working with specific populations, programmatic design recommendations, preventative work, and outreach interventions. Researchers, students, and practitioners will find a comprehensive guide to the emerging field of practice with sex trafficking and exploitation survivors.
Download or read book No Way to Treat a Child written by Naomi Schaefer Riley and published by Bombardier Books. This book was released on 2021-10-05 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kids in danger are treated instrumentally to promote the rehabilitation of their parents, the welfare of their communities, and the social justice of their race and tribe—all with the inevitable result that their most precious developmental years are lost in bureaucratic and judicial red tape. It is time to stop letting efforts to fix the child welfare system get derailed by activists who are concerned with race-matching, blood ties, and the abstract demands of social justice, and start asking the most important question: Where are the emotionally and financially stable, loving, and permanent homes where these kids can thrive? “Naomi Riley’s book reveals the extent to which abused and abandoned children are often injured by their government rescuers. It is a must-read for those seeking solutions to this national crisis.” —Robert L. Woodson, Sr., civil rights leader and president of the Woodson Center “Everyone interested in child welfare should grapple with Naomi Riley’s powerful evidence that the current system ill-serves the safety and well-being of vulnerable kids.” —Walter Olson, senior fellow, Cato Institute, Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies
Download or read book Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children written by Nai Harrington and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exploratory, mixed-methods research study explored the effectiveness of protection laws and services for commercially sexually exploited (CSE) children in Merced County. In addition, the study examined the protocols and procedures, preventative approaches from a child welfare services (CWS) agency perspective, and the impact of the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children (CSEC) California S.B. 855 / A.B. 2035. Thirty social workers voluntarily participated in the self-administered Likert scaling questionnaire, which consisted of 13 CSEC related statements and 1 open-ended question regarding desired services. Two social workers were interviewed by this researcher; the interview consisted of 9 open-ended questions regarding the CSEC. A quantitative analysis was conducted for questionnaire responses to statements 1-13. A qualitative analysis was conducted for the questionnaires open-ended question and social worker interviews. Results indicated a lack of sufficient funding and services in the areas of counseling and shelters for CSE children in Merced County. More services between local community agencies to provide trauma-based counseling, inpatient substance abuse treatment, and immediate and appropriate shelters are needed. Social workers at this CWS agency feel more public awareness and preventative outreach services on the issue and deterrence of CSEC are needed. Keywords: commercial sexual exploitation of children, sex traffickers, sex trafficking of children, commercial sex trafficking, human trafficking, child prostitution, child sexual abuse.
Download or read book Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking written by Susan C. Mapp and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text integrates knowledge on DMST from the scholarly literature with interviews with those working directly in the field. Interviews with survivors, social workers, psychologists, law enforcement professionals, and others help educate the reader as to why and how this crime occurs, how to fight it, and how to help survivors recover.
Download or read book Evidencing Curricula to Address Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children written by Amanda Nicole Brouwer and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: The purpose of this project was to write a grant proposal to field test curricula that would teach child welfare professionals and prospective mentor (foster) parents to work with youth involved with Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking. The goal of this grant project is to document if the two curricula are worthy of the label evidence-based and able to be disseminated to the curricula's target populations. The recommended host organization for this project is the Child Welfare League of America (CWLA) which is committed to promoting the well-being of children and families through advocacy, standard-setting, research, and publications. A foundation with extensive history of funding grant projects that support child welfare and at risk populations was identified, however actual submission and/or funding was not a requirement for the completion of this project.
Download or read book Sex Trafficking of Children in the United States written by Kristin M. Finklea and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2012-10-07 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Victims of Childhood Sexual Abuse written by Cathy Spatz Widom and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Confronting Commercial Sexual Exploitation and Sex Trafficking of Minors in the United States written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2014-10-17 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every day in the United States, children and adolescents are victims of commercial sexual exploitation and sex trafficking. These are not only illegal activities, but also forms of violence and abuse that result in immediate and long-term physical, mental, and emotional harm to victims and survivors. In 2013, the Institute of Medicine/National Research Council released the report Confronting Commercial Sexual Exploitation and Sex Trafficking of Minors in the United States. The report found that the United States is in the very early stages of recognizing, understanding, and developing solutions for these crimes. Law enforcement professionals, attorneys, and judges all have important roles to play in responding to commercial sexual exploitation and sex trafficking of minors in the United States. Their knowledge and ability to identify victims, investigate cases, and make appropriate referrals is crucial to the development of an overall response to these crimes. This Guide for the Legal Sector provides a summary of information from the original report that is most relevant to individuals within the legal sector who interact in some way with victims, survivors, and perpetrators of commercial sexual exploitation and sex trafficking of minors. This includes federal, state, county, local, and tribal law enforcement agencies; police officers and investigators; probation officers; parole officers; corrections officers; prosecutors and defense attorneys; victim advocates; and judges. This guide includes definitions of key terms and an overview of risk factors and consequences; noteworthy examples of efforts by law enforcement personnel, attorneys, the juvenile and criminal justice systems, and the judiciary; multisector and interagency efforts in which the legal sector plays an important role; and recommendations aimed at identifying, preventing, and responding to these crimes.
