Public Health Perspective on UK-identified Victims of Modern Slavery. (December 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Bird, Sheila
• Other Names: Zhang Sheldon X. guest-editor.; Durgana Davina P. guest-editor.; King Ruth guest-editor.
• Is Part Of: Crime and delinquency. Volume 67:Number 13/14(2021)
• Page Start: 2295
• Page End: 2306
• Publication Date: 2021-12
• Subjects: intervention -- policing -- quantitative -- victimology; Crime -- United States -- Periodicals; Juvenile delinquency -- United States -- Periodicals; 364.05
• DOI: 10.1177/0011128720981887
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0011-1287

Abstract

Links between identified-victims, which occur if escape of one has led to rescue of others (as cluster of victims in single location or controlled-individuals across a network of locations), have implications for how the totality of victims of modern slavery is estimated. Information from identified-victims can help to identify densely or dangerously trafficked-routes. Vulnerability of victims is not ended by their liberation: evidence-based healthcare and other support protocols are needed to assist recovery and resilience. The evidence-base for national protocols would be enhanced if over half the identified-victims agreed to join a research-led cohort by which morbidity and mortality could be monitored; location notified if the participant was again in extremis; with DNA-sampling offered as means to re-unite trafficked family-members.