This technical assistance brief is intended to educate judges about steps to be taken to assist in the location and recovery efforts for children missing from care by ensuring the legal guardians, social workers, and child advocates within child serving agencies are aware of and engage assistance from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children on behalf of those endangered missing children.
Gain an understanding of NCMEC resources available to assist law enforcement with child sex trafficking cases.
Sex trafficking, much like other forms of child abuse, can be difficult to detect because victims often hide their victimization and are reluctant to come forward and tell a parent or trusted person at school. This guide discusses characteristics of those vulnerable to becoming involved in sex trafficking, tips to protect children from victimization, signs of victimization parents should be aware of and a step by step action plan if you think a child might have been a victim of human trafficking.
This report identifies the core components of a comprehensive and collaborative approach to the domestic sex trafficking of girls. It describes how three jurisdictions have created a multidisciplinary response to the sex trafficking of children, each from a different system perspective.
This report provides a one-year snapshot of sex trafficking cases developed by the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department’s Vice & Sex Trafficking Investigations Section. The partnership between Arizona State University, Office of Sex Trafficking Intervention Research and the Las Vegas Police Department demonstrates a collaborative initiative that exemplifies innovation in sex trafficking research. This collaboration assisted in the exploration of law ¬enforcement actions, case development and case analysis for the dual purpose of academic and operational learning and improvement with regards to sex trafficking investigation management in an affected, metropolitan environment. Support for this study was from the Arizona State University McCain Institute for International Leadership and the AMBER Alert Training and Technical Assistance Program at the National Criminal Justice Training Center (NCJTC) of Fox Valley Technical College. Warning: This report contains strong language.
This paper critiques current US strategies to address CSEC and highlights a human rights approach on the fulfillment of economic and social rights of children as a prevention strategy.
A guide for welfare agencies from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
Develop a multidisciplinary team approach for responding to child sex trafficking cases that result in prosecution. Discuss topics such as search warrants, what charges to bring and other considerations and/or prosecutions issues. Explore victim-centered approaches and strategies to deal with the unexpected.
This Resource Guide, provided by the United States Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs identifies data-driven solutions, resources and related publications to address commercial sexual exploitation of children.
An article written by a trafficking survivor on training and best practices by law enforcement when dealing with a victim of trafficking.
