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Control and protect : collaboration, carceral protection, and domestic sex trafficking in the United States / Jennifer Musto.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2016]Copyright date: �2016Description: 1 online resource (229 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780520957749
  • 0520957741
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Control and protect.DDC classification:
  • 306.3/620973 23
LOC classification:
  • HQ281 .M87 2016eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction -- Collaboration meets carceral protection -- Investigations -- Trafficking, technology, and "data-driven" justice -- The switch up -- Curative harms and the "revolving door" of the criminal justice system --Conlcusion.
Summary: "Control and Protect explores the meaning and significance of efforts designed to combat sex trafficking in the United States. A striking case study of the new ways in which law enforcement agents, social service providers, and nongovernmental advocates have joined forces in this campaign, this study reveals how these collaborations consolidate state power and carceral control. This book examines how partnerships forged in the name of fighting domestic sex trafficking have blurred the boundaries between punishment and protection, victim and offender, and state and nonstate authority"--Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Collaboration meets carceral protection -- Investigations -- Trafficking, technology, and "data-driven" justice -- The switch up -- Curative harms and the "revolving door" of the criminal justice system --Conlcusion.

"Control and Protect explores the meaning and significance of efforts designed to combat sex trafficking in the United States. A striking case study of the new ways in which law enforcement agents, social service providers, and nongovernmental advocates have joined forces in this campaign, this study reveals how these collaborations consolidate state power and carceral control. This book examines how partnerships forged in the name of fighting domestic sex trafficking have blurred the boundaries between punishment and protection, victim and offender, and state and nonstate authority"--Provided by publisher.

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In English.

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