RT Article
T1 Intergenerational Pathways into Family Sex Market Facilitation
JF Victims & offenders
VO 19
IS 8
SP 1560
OP 1585
A1 Horning, Amber
A2 Poirier, Michelle
A2 Jordenö, Sara 1974-
LA English
YR 2024
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1908521961
AB Prior studies have found that 15–31% of sex market facilitators (SMFs) experienced family trafficking, and this was a primary route of market entrance (Dank et al., 2014), yet researchers have not thoroughly explored this social problem. We interviewed 24 SMFs exposed to facilitation through family, starting as teenagers. We qualitatively explored the accounts using the Grounded Theory (G.T.) approach (Glaser & Strauss, 2017), evaluating patterns to their entrance story using the sensitizing concept of “agency.” Our sample consisted of SMFs experiencing structural disadvantage. Their positionality informed their formulations of their entrance, ranging from family coercion to cooperative learning. Their negative formulations centered on being denied a childhood, exposure to negative stimuli, physical or sexual abuse, unconventional relationships with caregivers, strained relationships with traditional family and family discord. At the same time, their positive interpretations centered on family bonding, masculinity, survival, career, status, and freedom. Our findings indicate that prevention programming should be implemented at the community and family levels to address structural inequality contributing to fragile family systems, risk, trauma, and destructive relationship cycles. Policy directives and legislation should consider these social actors exploited and include them in prevention programs.
K1 Prevention
K1 structural disadvantage
K1 Social learning
K1 Family
K1 Sex trafficking
K1 Pimping
DO 10.1080/15564886.2023.2199735