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Title
Fostering Exploitation
Description
Fostering Exploitation is a thesis project that examines the link between foster care and prostitution. It identifies and explains the various factors that contribute to the significant percentage of foster care children who end up as victims of sex trafficking. Specifically, it addresses three main elements that make foster children more vulnerable to being trafficked and recruited into the sex industry: sexual/physical/emotional abuse, negative understanding of self, and running away, which leads to homelessness. In addition, it highlights several suggestions that can help curtail this issue and assist in rehabilitating the children, including the development of adequate housing solutions, drug addiction treatment services, and legislation/policy changes. While part of this thesis is a literature review that includes in-depth research, the largest aspect of this project comes in the form of a video. The video presents interviews from a sex trafficking survivor, care provider, and a police lieutenant. Ultimately, it serves as a resource and informational tool that raises awareness on the modern day form of slavery.
Date Created
2014-05
Contributors
- Dicarlo, Samuel Paul (Author)
- Katsulis, Yasmina (Thesis director)
- Holman, Christine (Committee member)
- Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor)
- T. Denny Sanford School of Social and Family Dynamics (Contributor)
- School of Social Transformation (Contributor)
Topical Subject
Extent
20 pages
Language
eng
Copyright Statement
In Copyright
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Series
Academic Year 2013-2014
Handle
https://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.23322
Level of coding
minimal
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- 2017-10-30 02:50:57
System Modified
- 2021-08-11 04:09:57
- 3 years 3 months ago
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