Tag: victim offenders

  • January 23rd, 2020

Over three years ago, the JuST Response Council began to discuss an emerging issue that was challenging the field: sex trafficking victim-offender intersectionality (hereafter ST-VOI) – the phenomenon of sex trafficking victims facing sex trafficking charges. The response to this issue has varied greatly among jurisdictions, influencing how and when sex trafficking survivors are treated as victims of a crime and when they are treated as equal offenders alongside their exploiter without recognition of their own victimization.

Read their report of the findings here!

 

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