Coerced Performances? Trafficking, Sex Work, and Consent

Trafficking, sex work, and HIV: efforts to resolve conflicts.

94 www.thelancet.com Vol 385 January 10, 2015 and Evaluation responded to criticisms and improved its practices. The new GBD 2013 estimates show the vast expansion of collaborators, acquiring primary information even from countries that traditionally provide little data, such as China, Mexico, Turkey, and Russia. The description of methods is more detailed and transparent, and the instruments o...

Sex trafficking, sex work, and violence: evidence for a new era.

Trading sex: voluntary or coerced? The experiences of homeless youth.

This study examined the circumstances surrounding a homeless youth's "decision" to trade sex for food, money, shelter, or drugs. Forty homeless youth in 4 Midwestern states participated in individual in-depth qualitative interviews. Interviewers recruited youth both through service agencies and through street outreach. The findings revealed that approximately 1/3 of the sample had some experien...

Cannabis treatment outcomes among legally coerced and non-coerced adults

BACKGROUND Treatment seeking for cannabis dependence in general, and particularly the number of criminal justice referrals to cannabis treatment, has increased over the past decade. This study aims to compare the characteristics, psychosocial functioning and treatment outcome of those legally coerced into cannabis treatment compared to those entering treatment without legal coercion. METHODS ...

Sex trafficking in South Asia.

Economic and social inequalities and political conflicts have led to the movement of persons within each country and across the borders in South Asia. Globalization has encouraged free mobility of capital, technology, experts and sex tourism. Illiteracy, dependency, violence, social stigma, cultural stereotypes, gender disparity and endemic poverty, among other factors, place women and children...