Publications

Human Trafficking Is a Public Heath Issue

By Makini Chisolm-Straker (Editor), Hanni Stoklosa (Editor)

This clear-sighted reference examines the public health dimensions of labor and sex trafficking in the United States, the scope of the crisis, and possibilities for solutions. Its ecological lifespan approach globally traces risk and protective factors associated with this exploitation, laying a roadmap towards its prevention. Diverse experts, including survivors, describe support and care interventions across domains and disciplines, from the law enforcement and judicial sectors to community health systems and NGOs, with a robust model for collaboration. By focusing on the humanity of trafficked persons, a public health paradigm broadens our understanding of and ability to address trafficking while adding critical direction and resources to the criminal justice and human rights structures currently in place.

Human Trafficking: Applying Research, Theory, and Case Studies

By Noel Bridget Busch-Armendariz, Maura Nsonwu, & Laurie Cook Heffron (2017)

Addresses the specific vulnerabilities of human trafficking victims, their medical-psycho-social needs, and issues related to direct service delivery; identification of human trafficking crimes, traffickers, and the impact of this crime on the global economy; covers national and international anti-trafficking policies, prevention and intervention strategies, promising practices to combat human trafficking, responses of law enforcement and service providers, organizational challenges, and the cost of trafficking to human wellbeing.

Ending Human Trafficking and Modern-Day Slavery: Freedom’s Journey

By Annalisa Enrile (2017)

Explores the complexities of human trafficking and modern-day slavery through a global perspective; includes a discussion of the root causes and structural issues that continue to plague society, as well as real-life case studies and vignettes, the words of human trafficking survivors, and insights from first responders and anti-trafficking advocates; Each chapter includes a “call to action” to inspire readers to implement a range of strategies designed to disrupt, eradicate, or mitigate human trafficking and modern-day slavery.

Combating Human Trafficking: Gaps in Policy and Law

By Veerendra Mishra (2015)

Explores varied dimensions of the crime and offers further classification to help effectively address the problem.; It presents a new perspective of identifying assimilative interaction between social and criminal justice systems, the progressive growth in socio-criminal legislations, and the universal demand of multi-agency approach to combat trafficking; offers a global perspective to the problem with examples and case studies.

Human Trafficking: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

By Mary C. Burke

Comprehensively explains human trafficking as it exists and is being addressed in the twenty-first century; essential reading for professionals working in many fields, including law enforcement, human services, and health care, and for concerned citizens interested in human rights and how to make a difference in their communities.

Challenging the Human Trafficking Narrative: Victims, Villains, and Heroes

By Erin O’Brien (2018)

This book deconstructs the human trafficking narrative in public discourse, examining the victims, villains, and heroes of trafficking stories. Sex slaves, exploited workers, mobsters, pimps and johns, consumers, governments, and anti-trafficking activists are all characters in the story, serving to illustrate who is to blame for the problem of trafficking, and how that problem might be solved.