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Title

• Sex Trafficking as Structural Gender-Based Violence: Overview and Trauma Implications

Date modified

• 12/25/2025

Creator

• Burke, Mary
• Amaya, Barbara
• Dillon, Kelly

Abstract

• Human trafficking is known to be one of the most rapidly growing criminal industries globally, and a significant portion of this criminal industry is the trafficking of girls and women for commercial sexual exploitation and for labor (Polaris Project 2015). Trafficking, as it affects women and girls, in particular sex trafficking, is a form of gender-based violence. The lesser-valued status of women and girls worldwide places them at increased risk for abuses and exploitation. This chapter will focus on sex trafficking, as well as the sociocultural and institutionalized reasons that women and girls are vulnerable to this form of exploitation. This chapter will also address trauma related to sex trafficking and implications for psychological treatment of sex trafficking survivors.

Bibliographic citation

• Burke, M.C., Amaya, B., Dillon, K. (2020). Sex trafficking as structural gender-based violence: Overview and trauma implications. In Winterdiyk, J., Jones, J. (Eds). The Palgrave International Handbook of Human Trafficking. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63058-8_22

Date created

• 2020

Identifier

• 9783319630571

Stichwort

• Human trafficking
• Sex crimes
• Gender-based violence
• Post-traumatic stress disorder
• PTSD

Language

• English

Publisher

• Palgrave Macmillan

Related url

•  https://carlowuniversity.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1132289490
•  https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63058-8_22

Resource type

• Part of Book

Rights statement

• In Copyright

Source

• Winterdyk, J., & Jones, J. (Eds.). (2020). The palgrave international handbook of human trafficking. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63058-8_22

Subject

• Human trafficking
• Gender-based violence
• Sex crimes
• Emotional trauma