A Safe Harbor Is Temporary Shelter, Not A Pathway Forward: How Court-Mandated Sex Trafficking Intervention Fails to Help Girls Quit the Sex Trade

Misty Luminais; Rachel Lovell; Margaret McGuire

doi:10.1080/15564886.2019.1628145

A Safe Harbor Is Temporary Shelter, Not A Pathway Forward: How Court-Mandated Sex Trafficking Intervention Fails to Help Girls Quit the Sex Trade

Misty Luminais
, Rachel Lovell
, Margaret McGuire

Criminology and Sociology

Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences

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Abstract

Results from an evaluation of a juvenile human trafficking court are presented to explore the ways in which tensions between (a) human trafficking rhetoric, (b) a legal framework that cannot resolve the conflict inherent in the victim-delinquent identity required by Safe Harbor legislation, and (c) the lived experiences of youth in the program do not support youth actually quitting the sex trade. Practical hurdles to implementation of the program are also discussed, and recommendations on how other jurisdictions might approach the issue are offered.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	540-560
Number of pages	21
Journal	Victims and Offenders
Volume	14
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/15564886.2019.1628145
State	Published - Jul 4 2019

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SDG 5 Gender Equality
SDG 8 Decent Work and Economic Growth
SDG 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

Keywords

Human trafficking
conceptual frameworks
girls
intervention
sex trade
specialized dockets

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