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DHS Says Children Being Trafficked ‘Outside’ Its Responsibility

Amy Farrell, director and professor of criminology and criminal justice at Northeastern University, told Newsweek that neither Republican nor Democratic policies are “particularly effective as anti-trafficking efforts.”

Human Trafficking Is on the Rise, What Will the Next President Do About It?

Commenting on the data, Northeastern University Professor Amy Farrell told Newsweek, “Overall, we know human trafficking is under identified, under investigated and under prosecuted and some places around the country are better at identifying, investigating and prosecuting.”

Exposure of brothels that catered to the elite spotlights how legal system treats buyers and sellers in sex trade

While there is debate about whether arresting buyers cuts down on the exploitative sex trade, “not arresting them at all completely sanctions their behavior,” said Amy Farrell, the director of Northeastern University’s School of Criminology & Criminal Justice. “It’s not fair to arrest sellers but not buyers.”

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‘Working like a slave’: Why human trafficking in restaurants is underreported

Amy Farrell, director of the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Northeastern University, said if regulators spent more time listening to workers and focusing on lower-level crimes, they could stop exploitation before it develops into trafficking.

Human trafficking statistics: Politicians love them though they remain imprecise

Amy Farrell, co-director of the Violence and Justice Research Lab at Northeastern University, has studied the flaws in the FBI data-collection system on human trafficking. State and local officials often misclassify trafficking cases, leading to chronic underreporting.

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Rise in labor trafficking abuse found across many US industries, study says

The study, which is the first to explore and focus on labor trafficking victimization among U.S. citizens, was conducted by researchers from John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Northeastern University and the University of Massachusetts Lowell.

Police crackdowns on illicit massage businesses pose harms to the women they aim to help

Other advocates say that further law enforcement intervention would do more harm, pointing to past efforts to police brothels that generally end with women — usually, women of color — in jail cells. Amy Farrell, a professor of criminology and criminal justice at Northeastern University in Boston, says society would be better served targeting the […]

She Was Sex Trafficked At 14 — Then Sentenced To 20 Years In Prison

“Police officers and jurors and judges don’t come from Mars,” said Amy Farrell, an associate professor of criminology and criminal justice at Northeastern University who co-authored the study. “The dominant American model of sex trafficking is coming from the movie ‘Taken.’ It isn’t surprising that’s the schema people are walking around with.”

The Florida spa raids were aimed at men, but women paid a far steeper price

“This is a situation where law enforcement has egg all over their face. Somebody’s got to go down for this. And it’s going to be the women,” said Amy Farrell, a criminologist who studies sex trafficking at Northeastern University. “That’s what happens in these cases. There’s a huge political pressure to prosecute somebody and at […]

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Why Seattle is scoring victories against labor traffickers

Farrell, the Northeastern criminologist, says a key need is to train and motivate other government agencies – like licensing and inspection officials who visit farms or restaurants – so they can give more tips to law enforcement. “Labor trafficking cases are so hard to see in many ways, that it really takes people being trained […]

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New report says the health care system is failing child trafficking victims — and what it can do to improve

Building trust with young people who are hesitant to receive care is the most important step, a Northeastern report states.

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Northeastern’s Michael Davis receives prestigious award for his work as a trailblazing police chief

Vice president of global safety and policing, Davis was named a distinguished fellow of the George Lewis Ruffin Society.

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Northeastern researcher exposes child labor trafficking as a hidden crime after investigating 132 victims

"They're disposable." A new study co-authored by Northeastern's Amy Farrell sheds light on world of children trafficked for their labor

Disrupting human trafficking in U.S. agriculture by focusing on the supply chain

Three Northeastern researchers are hoping to disrupt human trafficking in U.S. agriculture with an unusual approach: They are focused on the victims.

State and regional law enforcement records likely reflect less than 10 percent of trafficking victims in the area, according to new research by Amy Farrell, a Northeastern University professor who studies human trafficking. Photo by iStock

Human trafficking in the US is a much bigger problem than we think

New research by Amy Farrell, a Northeastern University professor who studies human trafficking, shows that obstacles at nearly every level of the reporting process have likely resulted in crime statistics that are much lower than reality.

Northeastern University, New England Coalition Against Trafficking host conference on the warning signs of human trafficking

The first step to fighting human trafficking is the ability to spot when it’s happening. But identifying someone who is caught in the web of a trafficking scheme requires an eye for nuanced details, says Amy Farrell, an associate professor of criminology and criminal justice at Northeastern who studies human trafficking.

Human trafficking happens every day in the US. Why do we hear about it only at the Super Bowl?

It's a phenomenon that happens year after year. As hundreds of thousands of football fans flood into designated cities across the United States in anticipation of the Super Bowl, ranks of human traffickers bring sex- and labor-workers to meet the demands of the crowds, says Amy Farrell, an associate professor at Northeastern who studies human trafficking.

Can data help make racial profiling by police a thing of the past?

Jack McDevitt, who directs the Institute on Race and Justice at Northeastern, is leading a study of police stops and searches in Douglas County, Kansas, where black people have been jailed at a disproportionately high rate.

Study finds human trafficking is judged unevenly by law, public

In the first-ever report on the efficacy of the nation’s anti-human trafficking efforts, co-authored by Northeastern criminologist Amy Farrell, researchers found that comprehensive laws that invested in fiscal and human resources—not harsher criminal penalties—increased arrests and prosecutions.

After Ferguson, building police-community trust

In the wake of last year’s deadly shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, as well as other events in which the police’s use of force has been questioned, is policing in America facing a legitimacy crisis? And if so, what do we do about it? Amy Farrell, an associate professor in the School of […]

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