Human Trafficking and Disabilities

This book explores the intersection of disabilities and human trafficking, focusing on cognitive, developmental, sensory, and physical disabilities before, during, and after the trafficking experience. This book was originally published as a special issue of Journal of Human Trafficking.

List of contents

Introduction: The Intersection of Human Trafficking and Disabilities 1. Prevalence of Neurodevelopmental, Mental, and Behavioral Disorders in a Sample of U.S. Commercially Sexually Exploited Youth, and Associations with Health and Health Care Access 2. Sex Trafficking Prevention for Youth with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities: Service Provider Perspectives 3. Exploring Consequences of Sex Trafficking Victimization Among Individuals with and without Disabilities 4. The Complex and Marginalized Experiences of BIPOC Trafficked Women: An Examination of Disabilities, ACEs, Discrimination, and Racism 5. Deaf Populations and Human Trafficking: Risk and Protective Factors for Consideration 6. Including Measures of Disability in Prevalence Studies: Lessons from a Prevalence Estimation Study of Labor Trafficking in the Construction Industry in Houston 7. Unveiling the Long-Term Challenges: Disabilities and Post-Human Trafficking Survival - A Survivor Perspective

About the author

Daniela Peterka- Benton, PhD, is Associate Professor of Justice Studies and Director of the Global Center on Human Trafficking at Montclair State University. She holds a PhD and MEd from the University of Vienna, Austria, and an MS from the University of Cincinnati.
Elizabeth Bowman, PhD, LICSW, LCSW- C, is Associate Professor of Social Work at Gallaudet University and a trafficking survivor. She holds a PhD from Catholic University and an MSW from Gallaudet University.

Product details

• Authors: Daniela Bowman Peterka-Benton
• Assisted by: Elizabeth Bowman (Editor), Daniela Peterka-Benton (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.08.2025
• EAN: 9781041099673
• ISBN: 978-1-0-4109967-3
• No. of pages: 109
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, LAW / Criminal Law / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, LAW / Public, LAW / Agricultural, Legal aspects of criminology, Disability: social aspects, Social Law, Crime and criminology, Crime & criminology, Public international law: human rights, International human rights law, Criminology: legal aspects, Social law and Medical law, Modern slavery / Human trafficking