@article{ref1,
title="A longitudinal study of justice characteristics among girls participating in a sex trafficking court program",
journal="Health and justice",
year="2021",
author="Talbert, Ryan D. and Cook, Mekeila C. and Thomas, Breanna",
volume="9",
number="1",
pages="e1-e1",
abstract="BACKGROUND: Sex trafficking is a public health and social justice issue that has traditionally been addressed with criminal justice solutions. Because many sex  trafficking survivors are incarcerated for crimes related to their exploitation,  specialty, human trafficking courts were developed to offer resources and assistance  to labor and sex trafficking survivors. This study assessed justice-involved youth  participating in a specialty, anti-trafficking court program. The purpose of this  study was to investigate justice-related outcomes of participants in a specialty  court program. We examined: (1) the relationship between age at first citation and  justice characteristics (number of bench warrants, number of citations, number  placements, and number of times ran away); and (2) the number of months between  first citation and enrollment into the program with the aforementioned justice  characteristics. We used negative binomial models to estimate the relationships  between age at first citation, number of months between first citation and program  enrollment, with the four justice characteristics (n = 181). <br><br>RESULTS: Adjusted  models showed that younger age at first citation was associated with significantly  more bench warrants and citations while in the program. Likewise, fewer months  between first citation and program entry was related to more bench warrants and  citations. <br><br>CONCLUSIONS: There is a need to evaluate the appropriateness of  specialty, trafficking court programs in reducing continued justice involvement and  these programs ability to meet the evolving needs of sex trafficking survivors over  time. We recommend universal screening for trafficking indicators for all  systems-involved youth and relocating trafficking specialty courts out of juvenile  courts to dependency courts.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="2194-7899",
doi="10.1186/s40352-020-00127-1",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40352-020-00127-1"
}