Author: Arizona State University, Office of Sex Trafficking Intervention Research Year: 2020 Outline: This study explores the life experiences of 167 homeless young adults (ages 18 to 25) from around Arizona including their experiences of sex trafficking and labor exploitation. The year 2020 has presented unique challenges. The COVID-19 pandemic created additional critical barriers to […]
Author: Arizona State University, Office of Sex Trafficking Intervention Research Year: 2019 Outline: This study explores the life experiences of 167 homeless young adults (ages 18 to 25) from around Arizona including their experiences of sex trafficking and labor exploitation. This is the sixth year collecting this survey from homeless young adults in Arizona and […]
Author: Arizona State University, Office of Sex Trafficking Intervention Research Year: 2018 Outline: The Youth Experiences Survey (YES) is a study of the experiences of homeless young adults in Arizona that has been conducted for the past five years, from 2014 to 2018. The YES study focuses on how the life experiences of Arizona’s homeless […]
Author: The Field Center for Children’s Policy, Practice & Research University of Pennsylvania Year: 2017 Outline: The Field Center completed a three-city study as part of a larger initiative by Covenant House International to research human trafficking among homeless youth that encompassed nearly 1,000 youth across 13 cities. The Field Center interviewed a total of […]
Author: Arizona State University, Office of Sex Trafficking Intervention Research Year: 2017 Outline: This report notes best practices, as well as, the gaps and challenges that are present while working with this difficult population of victims. This report is a summary of 187 surveys collected from Arizona’s homeless and runaway youth ages 18 to 25 […]
Author: Arizona State University, Office of Sex Trafficking Intervention Research Year: 2017 Outline: Sex trafficking is a pervasive national problem in the United States. Media reports indicate that sex trafficking occurs in both rural and urban areas with victims who are children and adults, of any gender, race, and sexual orientation. Sex trafficking, defined by […]
Author: Arizona State University, Office of Sex Trafficking Intervention Research Year: 2017 Overview: Human trafficking is a crime in the United States and as such, is hidden from plain sight making the estimation of the size of the problem complex and rife with error. Tremendous pressure has been placed on the human trafficking research community […]
Author: A Ten-City Study Full ReportModern Slavery Research Project, Loyola University New Orleans Year: 2016 Outline: Between February 2014 and June 2016, researchers from Loyola University New Orleans’s Modern Slavery Research Project (MSRP) were invited by Covenant House International and ten of their individual sites in the United States and Canada to serve as external […]
Author: Arizona State University, Office of Sex Trafficking Intervention Research Year: 2015 Outline: The purpose of this study is to capture the rate of occurrence of sex trafficking among juveniles involved in Arizona’s juvenile justice system. Also, recommendations were collected from juvenile probation officers and staff on how the Arizona juvenile probation system can best […]
Author: Northeastern University Justice Policy Center Year: 2014 Outline: This study examines the organization, operation, and victimization process of labor trafficking across multiple industries in the United States. It examines labor trafficking victim abuse and exploitation along a continuum, from victims’ recruitment for work in the United States; through their migration experiences (if any), employment […]