Pathways to Offending: Domestic Sex Trafficking

<p>Multidisciplinary professionals across criminal justice, public policy, education, and health and</p> <p>human services have all attempted to understand the complex phenomenon of sex trafficking to assist victims, correct offenders, and prevent future abuse. However, current research has struggled to agree on terms, definitions of terms, best measures of prevalence, and recommendations to address sex trafficking in the United States. This review of current literature aims to offer a synthesized framework to conceptualize domestic sex trafficking perpetrator behaviors (what they do), their uses of force, fraud, and coercion (how they do it), and their motivations and justifications/rationalizations for those behaviors (why they do it). The resulting conceptual framework can serve as a roadmap to guide the development of tailored assessment instruments and evidence-based treatments as well as improve community prevention and education efforts. </p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Psy.D. Doctor of Clinical Psychology

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation - Public Access

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Clinical Psychology

Year dc:date.available

2023

Author dc:creator

• Williams, Julie

Contributors dc:contributor

• Christina D. Brown, Psy.D.
• Kathie Bates, Ph.D.

• coercion
• commercial sex act (CSA)
• commercial sexual exploitation of children (CSEC)
• domestic sex trafficking (DST)
• force
• fraud
• grooming
• pimp
• prostitution
• recruitment
• sex offender
• Clinical Psychology
• Criminology and Criminal Justice
• Public Affairs, Public Policy and Public Administration

Repository record dc:identifier

https://digitalcommons.nl.edu/diss/739

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:digitalcommons.nl.edu:diss-1792