Adversity and intervention needs among girls in residential care with experiences of commercial sexual exploitation

Kristine Hickle and Dominique Roe-Sepowitz

Children and Youth Services Review, 2018, vol. 93, issue C, 17-23

Abstract: While the body of research on effective interventions for children and young people who experience commercial sexual exploitation is growing, much remains unknown regarding intervention needs, particularly in relation to the role of residential care in meeting those needs. In an effort to fill the gap in this research, this paper will report on a study comparing case files for girls victimized (n = 73) and not victimized (n = 62) by commercial sexual exploitation who were living in a residential care setting in a large southwestern city in the United States. Findings indicate that sexually exploited girls were more likely to report experiences of child sexual abuse, substance misuse/addiction, dating violence, and gang affiliation; they were also significantly more likely to run away from the group home facility and be identified as having an ‘unsuccessful discharge’. In the second part of the article we will consider the results of this study in the context of a wider discourse on how best to intervene in the lives of CSEC survivors in the United States and throughout the world.

Keywords: Sex trafficking; Sexual exploitation; CSE; CSEC; DMST; Residential care; Sexual abuse (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2018.06.043

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