Research & Reports

Author: The Urban InstituteNortheastern University Justice Policy Center Year: 2012 Outline: Utilizing a multi-method approach to understand the challenges local and state officials face investigating and prosecuting human trafficking cases, this study helps us identify and recommend strategies to overcome barriers to local investigation and prosecution of human trafficking. This study includes a systematic review […]

Author: The Field Center for Children’s Policy, Practice & Research University of Pennsylvania Year: 2018 Outline: The Field Center recently completed a 3-city study. Download PDF

Author:Shared Hope International Outline:This report notes best practices, as well as, the gaps and challenges that are present while working with this difficult population of victims. The goal of this assessment is to provide Arizona first responders and community members with information to advocate for improvements in the identification and proper response to DMST victims. […]

Author: Shared Hope International Year: 2015 Outline: This paper evaluates the fundamental importance of defining sex trafficking to include all instances of commercial sexual exploitation of minors. Beyond the question of whether force, fraud or coercion was used by the offender, this discussion addresses the impact of requiring that a third party, in particular a […]

Author: Ian Urbina – The New York Times Year: 2015 Outline: While forced labor exists throughout the world, nowhere is the problem more pronounced than here in the South China Sea, especially in the Thai fishing fleet, which faces an annual shortage of about 50,000 mariners, based on United Nations estimates. The shortfall is primarily […]

Author: Shared Hope International Year: 2014 Outline: In 2014, Shared Hope International conducted a research project on the subject of demand for sex with minors. The study consisted of a desk review followed by quantitative research in four geographic areas, including Maricopa County in Arizona, of instances where buyers were identified. Download PDF

Author: Andy Hall, Southern Arizona Against Slavery Year: 2015 Outline: Almost 15 years after Congress passed the first contemporary anti-slavery legislation, the Trafficking Victims Protection Act, state anti-trafficking law and policy still lag far behind their federal counterparts in terms of prosecuting traffickers, protecting victims, and preventing trafficking. Regrettably, Arizona provides an ample case study […]

Author: Dominique Roe-Sepowitz, MSW, Ph.D., Kristen Bracy, MA, Commander James Gallager, Madim, and Michael Cimino Year: 2015 Outline: With proper training, Probation Officers can begin to identify victims and help them receive the services needed to exit the life of prostitution. Download PDF

Author: Megan Cassidy, The Republic, October 2, 2014 Year: 2014 Outline: In the past several years, a growing number of Arizona police agencies have operated on an understanding that women and girls who are paid for sex are victims of sex trafficking rather than accomplices of the men who buy and sell them. Read the […]

Author: Marissa Roper, Downtown Devil, January 23, 2015 Year: 2015 Outline: Phoenix City Council voted to change the booking procedures for human trafficking suspects and adjustments to the city’s Human Trafficking Task Force. The changes amended Phoenix City Code to include an “educational component” for suspects sentenced for soliciting or hiring a prostitute. The changes […]