CRIM 1400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Workflow
6 Jun 2018
School
Department
Course
Professor
Partnerships
● Prevention
● Protection
● Prosecution
○ Public-private partnerships address local crime problem
○ Literature exposes limits of CJ system
● All feed into partnerships
Public Systems
● Child welfare system → CSEC youth
● Children slip through cracks when welfare doesn’t see red flags as indicators of
trafficking
● Type of prior victimization related to higher risk of trafficking
● At time of referral, a lot of agencies already involved that could have seen that they were
trafficked
● Not all agencies are super aware of human trafficking (until after receiving training)
● Improve public systems’ identification of victims of child sex trafficking
○ Standard treatments for child sexual abuse may not be appropriate
○ Diverse backgrounds of child human trafficking victims → must take cultural
practices into account in public agencies
Multidisciplinary Task Forces
● Combat domestic sex trafficking of girls
○ Youth sometimes involved in multiple systems → multiple systems needed to
address youth’s needs
● Which systems should be involved (at the minimum)?
○ Law enforcement
○ Case coordinator
○ Child welfare
○ Schools
○ Juvenile justice
○ Medical providers
○ Survivor
○ ...
● Needs of a multidisciplinary team
○ First response protocol
○ Hotline
○ Data
○ Identification and assessment tools
○ Training
○ Public awareness campaigns
○ Long-term task force
● Workflow of a multidisciplinary team
○ Complex referral system (not good)
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Document Summary
Children slip through cracks when welfare doesn"t see red flags as indicators of trafficking. Type of prior victimization related to higher risk of trafficking. At time of referral, a lot of agencies already involved that could have seen that they were trafficked. Not all agencies are super aware of human trafficking (until after receiving training) Improve public systems" identification of victims of child sex trafficking. Standard treatments for child sexual abuse may not be appropriate. Diverse backgrounds of child human trafficking victims must take cultural practices into account in public agencies. Youth sometimes involved in multiple systems multiple systems needed to address youth"s needs.
