Surveillance and Entanglement: How mandatory sex offender registration impacts criminalised survivors of human trafficking
Date
2020-04-27Journal
Anti-Trafficking ReviewPublisher
Alliance Against Traffic in Women FoundationType
Article
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This short article describes how some victims of human trafficking in the sex industry in the United States are prosecuted alongside traffickers and put on sex offender registries. The result is both a criminal record and an indefinite digital mark that limits their ability to find a job, settle in a new community, and see their children. The article concludes with a call for a careful, critical look at the system of sex offender registries and, more broadly, policing and prosecution strategies, including in cases of human trafficking, in the United States.Keyword
Human trafficking victims--Legal status, laws, etc.--United StatesSex offenders--Legal status, laws, etc.
Sex offenders registers--United States
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http://hdl.handle.net/10713/13700ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.14197/atr.2012201410