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ARTICLES

Criminalized Survivors: Today’s Abuse to Prison Pipeline for Girls
How Jose Alfaro Escaped a Sex Trafficking Nightmare
Snapshot on the State of Black Women and Girls: Sex Trafficking in the U.S.


DOCUMENTARIES

Black and Missing
Finding Hope and Healing After Trauma
I Am Dorsey Jones
Nameless: a Documentary about Child Sex Trafficking
Very Young Girls


GLOSSARY

https://sharedhope.org/the-problem/trafficking-terms/
https://www.americanbar.org/groups/judicial/publications/judges_journal/2013/winter/glossary_of_humantrafficking_acronyms_and_terms/


RESEARCH

2023

“In Harm’s Way” – Polaris Project

“Ending Child Sexual Exploitation in Texas Progress and Hope” – Office of the Texas Governor – Child Sex Trafficking Team

“CSEY Advocates” – Office of the Texas Governor – Child Sex Trafficking Team

“Responding to Online Threats: Minors’ Perspectives on Disclosing, Reporting and Blocking in 2021” – Thorn

“National Hotline 2021 Texas State Report” – National Human Trafficking Hotline

“In Harm’s Way, How Systems Fail Human Trafficking Survivors” – Polaris


2022

“2022 Trafficking in Persons Report” – Department of State

“United States Advisory Council on Human Trafficking Annual Report 2022” – US Department of State

“Self-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Material: Youth Attitudes and Experiences in 2021” – Thorn

“Help-Seeking and Help-Related Experiences of Commercially Sexually Exploited Youth: A Qualitative Meta-Synthesis” – Prior, Shilo, Peled

“Report Cards on Child & Youth Sex Trafficking” – Shred Hope International


2021

“United States Advisory Council on Human Trafficking Annual Report 2021” – US Department of State

“An Exploratory Study of Labor Trafficking Among U.S. Citizen Victims” – U.S. Department of Justice


2020

“Texas Strategic Plan” – Texas Attorney General

Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Youth in the United States: A Qualitative Systematic Review – Hampton & Lieggi


2019

“Road Map for Texas Communities to Address Child Sex Trafficking” – Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute

“To the Public, Nothing was Wrong with Me” – University of Texas at Austin


2018

“Survivor Insights-Role of Technology in Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking” – Thorn

“Who Buys Sex? Understanding and Disrupting Illicit Market Demand” – Demand Abolition 


2017

“A Six-Year Analysis of Sex Trafficking of Minors” – Arizona State University Office of the Sex Trafficking Intervention Research

“The Typology of Modern Slavery: Defining Sex and Labor Trafficking in the United States” – Polaris Project


2016

“Human Trafficking by the Numbers” – University of Texas at Austin


STUDY

Domestic Minor Familial Sex Trafficking – The Institute for Shelter Care