Sex Trafficking in the United States Issue Brief

“Sex Trafficking in the U.S.: A Closer Look at U.S. Citizen Victims,” an Issue Brief released on May 28, 2015, provides crucial insight into the realities of sex trafficking in the U.S. based largely on experiences reported by U.S. citizen survivors. The brief highlights key aspects of the U.S. sex trafficking industry, including how U.S. citizen victims are recruited and controlled, the relationships between victims and traffickers, common venues where sex trafficking occurs, and survivors’ level of access to opportunities for assistance. Based on information reported to the National Human Trafficking Resource Center (NHTRC) hotline and Polaris’s BeFree Textline in 2014, the brief illustrates the variety of situations that victims face in rural, suburban, and urban communities across the country. Click here to access the Issue Brief.