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Human Trafficking, Commercial Sexual Exploitation, and Systems of Prostitution: Secondary Sources

Legal Encyclopedia

Legal encyclopedia can provide a brief overview of an area of law, introducing the reader to relevant legal topics and terms.

Selected Legal Encyclopedia:

Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law (Third Floor: KZ1160 .E5 1981)

Cornell’s Legal Information Institute’s WEX legal dictionary and encyclopedia is accessible online for free.

Selected Treatises

Law Journals and Articles

Laurel Bellows, Breaking the Shackles More Must Be Done to End Human Trafficking and Address the Needs of Its Victims, 98 SEP ABA J. 8 (Sept. 2012)

Mohamed Y. Mattar, Interpreting Judicial Interpretations of the Criminal Statutes of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act: Ten Years Later, 19 Am. U. J. Gender Soc. Pol'y & L. 1247 (2011)

Eileen Overbaugh, Human Trafficking: The Need for Federal Prosecution of Accused Traffickers, 39 Seton Hall L. Rev. 635 (2009)

Stephanie Richard, Note, State Legislation and Human Trafficking: Helpful or Harmful?, 38 U. Mich. J.L. Reform 447 (2005)

Arthur Rizer & Sheri R. Glaser, Breach: The National Security Implications of Human Trafficking, 17 Widener L. Rev. 69 (2011)

Jennifer A.L. Sheldon-Sherman, The Missing "P": Prosecution, Prevention, Protection, and Partnership in the Trafficking Victims Protection Act, 117 Penn St. L. Rev. 443 (2012)

Jayashri Srikantiah, Perfect Victims and Real Survivors: The Iconic Victim in Domestic Human Trafficking Law, 87 B.U. L. Rev. 157 (2007)

Henry Andrés Yoder, Civil Rights for Victims of Human Trafficking, 12 U. Pa. J.L. & Soc. Change 133 (2009)

Secondary Sources - Domestic

Responding to Sex Trafficking Victim-Offender Intersectionality – Shared Hope International

White Paper – World Without Exploitation

Who Buys Sex? – Demand Abolition

CSE Institute Annual Reports

Trafficking in Persons Report – State Department

Understanding Human Trafficking in the United States – T.K. Logan, Robert Walker, Gretchen Hunt

Polaris Project Trafficking Statistics

Secondary Sources - International

“Bitch, You Got What You Deserved!”: Violation and Violence in Sex Buyer Reviews of Legal Brothels by Natalie Jovanovski & Meagan Tyler.  Violence Against Women, 24(16) (2018).

This article challenges existing assumptions about harm minimization in systems of prostitution which are legalized or fully decriminalized.

Readings on "Vacatur"

Scholarly resources on vacatur and Human Trafficking victimization: