Reports

Arrest Is Not the Answer (2016)
Stephanie Richard, Cast. (2016) Victims of Human Trafficking Should Not be Arrested for Crimes Their Traffickers Force Them to Commit. Arrest frequency data from the Coalition to Abolish Slavery &...

How Do You Create Policy for the Anti-Trafficking Movement that Leads to Real Change?
Stephanie Richard, Esq. Originally Published in The Essential Abolitionist, What You Need to Know About Human Trafficking & Modern Slavery, Chapter 6, Daliwal Press, 2015 Many individuals who learn about...

Child Labor Trafficking is a Child Welfare Issue
This article will examine the recent mobilization of the child welfare system to better protect child sex trafficking victims and argue that this same attention would benefit child labor trafficking...

An Analysis of State Safe Harbor Laws and Recommendations for States Considering Future Safe Harbor Legislation (2013)
This paper argues that child trafficking victims, both sex and labor trafficked, identified asvictims, need to be treated as victims and not face criminal charges or be mandated into serviceswhere...