School of Social Work, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA.
Trauma Violence Abuse. 2012 Apr;13(2):59-76. doi: 10.1177/1524838012440340. Epub 2012 Apr 9.
Children, youth, and adults of both genders are sex trafficked into and throughout the United States every day. Regrettably, little attention has been given to how human service providers might identify the sex-trafficking victims they are likely to encounter. To address this knowledge gap, the authors review 20 documents with the aim of detecting and synthesizing service identification recommendations in the scientific literature, government reports, and documents produced by organizations working with sex-trafficking victims. The review shows consensus regarding identification recommendations, including (a) trafficking indicators, (b) victim interaction strategies, (c) immediate response strategies, and (d) child-specific information. The review also shows consensus regarding screening questions that are important for service providers to use in identifying sex-trafficking victims. These questions relate to the victims' safety, employment, living environment, and travel and immigration status in addition to specific questions used with children and youth. The review results offer human service providers a preliminary set of screening strategies and questions that can be used to identify sex-trafficking victims in the context of human services. Building on the review findings, the authors offer policy and research recommendations.
儿童、青少年和成年男女每天都在被贩卖到美国各地并成为性交易的受害者。令人遗憾的是，很少有人关注到提供社会服务的人员如何识别他们可能遇到的性交易受害者。为了弥补这一知识空白，作者回顾了 20 份文件，旨在从科学文献、政府报告以及与性交易受害者合作的组织编写的文件中发现和综合服务识别建议。该综述表明，在识别建议方面已经达成共识，包括（a）人口贩卖指标、（b）受害者互动策略、（c）紧急应对策略以及（d）针对儿童的特定信息。综述还表明，在识别性交易受害者时，服务提供者使用的筛选问题也很重要。这些问题除了与儿童和青少年一起使用的具体问题外，还涉及到受害者的安全、就业、生活环境以及旅行和移民身份。综述结果为社会服务提供者提供了一套初步的筛选策略和问题，用于在社会服务背景下识别性交易受害者。作者在综述结果的基础上提出了政策和研究建议。
