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Victimization

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  • Repeat Victimization, Polyvictimization 

  • Risk factors for the sexual exploitation of minors

  • Human trafficking victimizations

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Understanding Human Trafficking Victimizations




Social contexts of isolation, vulnerability, and resilience among minors with experiences of commercial sexual exploitation in the Netherlands (2025) - Child Abuse & Neglect

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Changing profiles of youth referred for commercial sexual exploitation before and since the onset of Covid-19 in the United States (2025) - Child Maltreatment

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Identifying online risk markers of hard-to-observe crimes through semi-inductive triangulation: The aase of human trafficking in the United States (2022)

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Understanding factors associated with re-referral of youth for commercial sexual exploitation (2021) - Child, Abuse & Neglect 

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Examining individual and contextual correlates of victimization for juvenile human trafficking in Florida (2024) - Journal of Interpersonal Violence

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The impact of childhood abuse on the commercial sexual exploitation of youth: A systematic review and meta-analysis (2020) - Trauma, Violence & Abuse

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Enhancing the identification of commercial sexual exploitation among a population of high-risk youths using predictive regularization models (2020) - Child Maltreatment

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Measuring the nature and prevalence of human trafficking (2020) - The Palgrave International Handbook of Human Trafficking

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Sex Work (2019) - The Encyclopedia of Women and Crime 

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Connected to crime: An exploration of the nesting of labour trafficking and exploitation in legitimate markets (2018) - The British Journal of Criminology 

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Labor Trafficking Victimizations: Repeat Victimization and Polyvictimization (2017) - Psychology of Violence 

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Estimating the size of hard-to-reach populations using capture-recapture methodology, with a discussion of the International Labour Organization's global estimate of forced labour (2015) - Forum on Crime & Society 

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Extremely wanted: Human trafficking statistics - what to do with the hodgepodge of numbers? (2015) - Forum on Crime & Society

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