RT Article
T1 Projected heroes and self-perceived manipulators: understanding the duplicitous identities of human traffickers
JF Trends in organized crime
VO 23
IS 2
SP 95
OP 114
A1 Mehlman-Orozco, Kimberly 1983-
LA English
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1820208982
AB This qualitative inquiry examines human trafficker identities through stories from convicted offenders. Thematic findings suggest that the projected-identity of sex traffickers may be different from their true self-identity. Identity regulation to produce the appropriate individual by situation facilitates both improvisational and patterned methods of victim recruitment. Sex traffickers exercise their coercive power predominately through the use of deception and fraud, projecting themselves as Bhonest heroes^ and Blovers^ of their victims. Rather than using force to perpetually repress victims, sex traffickers more frequently gain compliance by building a trauma bond with their victims, who are also typically found at the margins of society. Recruitment into a commercial sexually exploitive victimization involves the perceived fulfillment of physiological and emotional needs, as well as strategic infusion of counterculture virtues. For tenured sex traffickers, force is normally only intermittently exercised to punish recalcitrant victims in a way that maintains the longevity of control through trauma bonding.
NO Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 112-114
K1 sex trafficking
K1 Human Trafficking
K1 Commercial sexual exploitation of children
K1 CSEC
K1 Pimp
K1 Prostitute
K1 Trafficking in persons
K1 TVPA
K1 Trafficking victims
K1 protection act
K1 CSAAS
K1 Child sexual abuse accommodation syndrome
K1 RTS
K1 Rape trauma syndrome
K1 Trauma bonding
DO 10.1007/s12117-017-9325-4