Summer 2017Newsletter
Research Subcommittee Election Results
2017-2019 Research Subcommittee Co-Chairs
Lianne Urada, PhD, MSW, LCSW is an Assistant Professor at SDSU in the School of Social Work, with a focus on Community Development within the Macro Social Work track. She received her BA (Psychology), MSW, and PhD in Social Welfare at UCLA, and served as a Social Welfare Field Faculty member at UCLA for over four years. For the past five years, she was an Assistant Professor at UC San Diego in the Division of Global Public Health, School of Medicine and a National Institute on Drug Abuse T32 Postdoctoral Fellow. As an affiliated core faculty of the UCSD Center on Gender Equity, and Health and a Fordham University Research Ethics Training Institute Alumni Fellow, she has over 25 publications on women and men involved in sex trade and sex trafficking in the Philippines, Russia, and Latin America. Dr. Urada’s current research interests focus on women living with HIV and CSEC populations (child welfare, healthcare) in San Diego County.
Jamie Gates, PhD, MDIV is a Cultural Anthropologist and the Director of Point Loma Nazarene University’s Center for Justice and Reconciliation. Dr. Gates founded and directs HT-RADAR for San Diego County. He led PLNU in establishing the Beauty for Ashes Scholarship Fund for survivors of human trafficking seeking their college degree. He is leading an effort to design and implement a drama-based peer-to-peer human trafficking awareness training in San Diego’s middle and high schools. Dr. Gates co-authored “Measuring the Nature & Extent of Gang Involvement in Sex Trafficking in San Diego” with Dr. Ami Carpenter at the University of San Diego. He has served as an expert witness on human trafficking legislation and he also serves as a faith-based organizer with regional and national faith-based organizations. Dr. Gates focuses on issues of immigration and human trafficking.
Quarterly Meeting
Ms. Crystal Isle, Ms. Jessica Kim, and Dr. David Habif Jr. presenting their ongoing research on HT/CSEC.
More than 35 stakeholders from various San Diego educational institutions, government entities, social service agencies, and organizations attended HT-RADAR’s fifth quarterly meeting on July 6. Dr. David Habif Jr., Ms. Crystal Isle, and Ms. Jessica Kim presented their ongoing research, which utilizes system dynamics and group model building to better understand and evaluate HT/CSEC in San Diego County. Dr. Habif Jr., Ms. Isle, and Ms. Kim are interning with San Diego County’s Child Welfare Services and are aspiring social workers. Other agenda topics included: the Research Subcommittee Election and announcements regarding upcoming conferences. Catering was provided by Paving Great Futures, a nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering the community through personal economic development.
Research Highlights
Mandated Social Disclosure: An Analysis of the Response to the California Transparency in Supply Chains Act of 2010
Rachel N. Birkey, PhD; Ronald P. Guidry, PhD; Mohammad Azizul Islam, PhD; Dennis M. Patten, PhD
ABSTRACT
In this study, we examine investor and firm response to the California Transparency in Supply Chains Act (CTSCA) of 2010. The CTSCA requires large retail and manufacturing firms to disclose efforts to eradicate slavery and human trafficking from their supply chains and is a rare example of mandated corporate social responsibility disclosure. Based on a sample of 105 retail companies subject to the CTSCA, we find a significant negative market reaction to the passing of the CTSCA. Furthermore, we find that the reaction is significantly more negative for larger firms and companies facing greater supply chain risks (apparel and footwear retailers), suggesting that investors place a negative value on exposure to legitimacy threats in the social domain. With respect to company disclosure response, we document relatively high compliance with the legislation, although we also find that the disclosure response appeared to be more symbolic than substantive in nature. Finally, our analysis indicates that both disclosure choice and disclosure extensiveness were significantly higher for the high-supply chain risk companies, suggesting that the response was influenced by concerns with strategic legitimation. Overall, the limited quality of disclosure suggests that, without additional rules and guidance, mandates alone may not lead to meaningful social disclosure.
Rachel N. Birkey, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at Illinois State University, College of Business.
Ronald P. Guidry, PhD, is an Associate Professor at Illinois State University, College of Business.
Mohammad Azizul Islam, PhD, is an Associate Professor at Queensland University of Technology, Business School.
Dennis M. Patten, PhD, is a Professor at Illinois State University, College of Business.
Human Trafficking, Immigration Regulation, and Subfederal Criminalization
Jennifer M. Chacón, JD
ABSTRACT
In the fifteen years since the enactment of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act—the U.S. legislation implementing the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children—every state in the United States has enacted its own, state-level antitrafficking law. This paper presents a multistate survey of state-level antitrafficking laws and the criminal prosecutions that have been conducted pursuant to those over the past decade. The comparative treatment of noncitizens and citizens in antitrafficking prosecutions is of particular concern. This research reveals that while subfederal implementation of antitrafficking laws has the potential to complement stated federal and international antitrafficking objectives, it also has the power to subvert and undermine those goals. State-level enforcement both mirrors and amplifies some of the systemic problems that arise when the criminal law is used as a tool to combat trafficking, including the manipulation of antitrafficking tools and rhetoric to perpetuate racial subordination and migrant criminalization. Ultimately, this research offers broader theoretical insights into the promises and pitfalls of overlapping criminal jurisdiction both within federalist systems and within frameworks of international regulation.
Jennifer M. Chacón, JD, is a Professor of Law at University of California, Irvine, School of Law. Professor Chacón does research in the fields of immigration law, constitutional law and criminal law and procedure. As a teacher of both criminal procedure and immigration law and policy, she is particularly interested in questions arising at the intersection of these fields.
Training US Health Care Professionals on Human Trafficking: Where Do We Go From Here?
Clydette Powell, MD, MPH; Kirsten Dickins, MSN, FNP; Hanni Stoklosa, MD, MPH
ABSTRACT
Some 21 million adults and children are labor-trafficked or sex-trafficked through force, fraud, or coercion. In recognition of the interface between trafficking victims and the healthcare setting, over the last 10 years there has been a notable increase in training of health care professionals (HCPs) on human trafficking (HT) and its health implications. Many organizations have developed curricula and offered training in various clinical settings. However, methods and content of this education on trafficking vary widely, and there is little evaluation of the impact of the training. The goal of this study was to assess the gaps and strengths in HT education of HCPs in the US. This mixed-method study had two components. The first component consisted of structured interviews with experts in human trafficking HCP education. The second portion of the study involved an analysis of data from HCP calls to the National Human Trafficking Resource Center (NHTRC). The interviews captured trainer-specific data on types of HT training, duration and frequency, key content areas, presence of evaluation approaches and indicators, as well as an assessment of barriers and strengths in HT training for HCP. NHTRC call database analysis demonstrated increasing trends since 2008 in calls by HCPs. Overall findings revealed the need for standardization of HT training content to assure correct information, trauma-informed and patient-centered care, and consistent messaging for HCPs. Evaluation metrics for HT training need to be developed to demonstrate behavior change and impact on service delivery and patient-centered outcomes for HT victims, according to our proposed adapted Kirkpatrick’s Pyramid model. HT training and evaluation would benefit from an agency or institution at the national level to provide consistency and standardization of HT training content as well as to guide a process that would develop metrics for evaluation and the building of an evidence base.
Clydette Powell, MD, MPH, a former Medical Officer for the US Agency for International Development, is an Adjunct Associate Professor of Pediatrics in the School of Medicine & Health Sciences at George Washington University.
Kirsten Dickins, MSN, FNP, is a Family Nurse Practitioner and PhD Student at Rush University, College of Nursing.
Hanni Stoklosa, MD, MPH, is an emergency physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital with appointments at Harvard Medical School, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative. She is the Executive Director of HEAL Trafficking.
Opportunities & Resources
ACJRca Conference Information
Program Chair, Ms. Erinn Herberman is lining up panels for the ACJRca Fall Conference in Irvine, California on October 12-13. Panel suggestions include: crossover youth, immigration enforcement and local policing, pretrial reform and revamping bail. If you are willing to moderate panels and/or would like to share your research, please contact Ms. Herberman at erinn.herberman@sdcounty.ca.gov. Ms. Herberman is the Research Director at the County of San Diego Probation Department, Research, Policy and Science Division.Funding Opportunities
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- Group Foundation for Advancing Mental Health Research Grant
- Close Date: November 1, 2017
- Roy Scrivner Memorial Research Grant Program
- Close Date: November 1, 2017
- Elizabeth Munsterberg Koppitz Child Psychology Graduate Student Fellowship
- Close Date: November 15, 2017
- AAFP Joint Grant Awards Program
- Close Date: January 9, 2018
- Russell Sage Foundation: Social Inequality Grant
- Close Date: March 5, 2018
- Public Welfare Foundation Program Grants
- Currently receiving LOIs for areas of criminal justice, youth justice, workers’ rights.
- Group Foundation for Advancing Mental Health Research Grant
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