| Call for Papers | JUSTICE EVALUATION JOURNAL
Special Issue: Helping Victims of Human Trafficking: What Do We Know About What Works?
Guest Editors: Fawn T. Ngo, Ph.D., University of South Florida
Joan Reid, Ph.D., University of South Florida
Amy Farrell, Ph.D., Northeastern University
The topic of human trafficking has garnered national and international attention in the past two decades. In the United States, the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (TVPA 2000) and subsequent amendments (i.e., TVPRA 2003, TVPA 2005, TVPRA 2017, etc.) have afforded local and state agencies to prosecute traffickers, protect victims, and prevent trafficking activities. Internationally, several conventions such as the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (Palermo Protocol) and the United Nations Protocol to Prevent, Suppress, and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, have also put forth international standards to address the crime of human trafficking.
Human trafficking encompasses the use of force or physical threats, psychological coercion, abuse of the legal process, a scheme, plan, or pattern intended to either hold a person in fear of serious harm or coerce the person to perform work. The two main forms of human trafficking include sex trafficking and labor trafficking, with labor trafficking further categorized as debt bondage labor, domestic servitude, and forced child labor. According to the International Labor Organization (ILO), at any given time, 24.9 million people worldwide are trapped in forced labor with 16 million people are exploited in the private sector such as domestic work, construction, or agriculture, 4.8 million in forced sexual exploitation, and 4 million in forced labor imposed by state authorities.
Service providers working with victims of human trafficking have identified a broad range of needs among victims of human trafficking. Overall, the needs of victims of human trafficking, whether international or domestic, sex or labor trafficking, can be characterized as complex. Albeit researchers and evaluators have highlighted several elements and components of existing effective and promising programs serving victims of human trafficking, the current scholarship in this arena remains very limited. Prior evaluative studies on human trafficking have also noted the challenges with identifying what outcomes to measure and which indicators of effectiveness are most important.
This special issue aims to expand the scholarship on effective services and programming for victims of human trafficking. The guest Editors are seeking rigorous evaluations of existing human trafficking programs and services and best practices in meeting the complex needs of victims. Only manuscripts describing previously unpublished, original research, and not currently under review by a conference or journal will be considered.
A one-page abstract should be submitted electronically to fawnngo@usf.edu by December 1, 2021. Authors of selected abstracts will be notified by January 1, 2022. Final manuscripts are due by April 1, 2022. Accepted papers will be published ahead of print in OnlineFirst. Manuscripts should not exceed 25 pages of double-spaced text (including tables, figures, and references). Send two electronic copies of the manuscript, one full version (with a cover page containing the author's name, title, institutional contact information; acknowledgments), and one blind copy (without any identifying information) to Fawn Ngo at fawnngo@usf.edu. All manuscripts should be in MS Word format and conform to the formatting style of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (7th ed). Justice Evaluation Journal (JEJ) is one of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences (ACJS) journals. JEJ provides a forum for scholars and practitioners in Criminal Justice and related sectors to offer answers to fundamental questions of what works and what does not work, and why. JEJ publishes evidence-based evaluations of existing programs and policies and the role of research in practice. | | | JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY CRIMINAL JUSTICE
Special Issue: Examining the Dark Web: Innovations in Research Design and Methods to Advance the Study of Crime and Victimization
Guest Editors: Fawn T. Ngo, Ph.D., University of South Florida
Catherine D. Marcum, Ph.D., Appalachian State University
Scott Belshaw, Ph.D., University of North Texas
The Dark Web, also known as Darknet and Onionland, is a subsection of the Deep Web that consists of large networks run by corporations and small peer-to-peer networks run by individuals. The Deep Web is part of the Internet that search engines do not index. As an encrypted network of websites, the Dark Web can only be accessed using a special secure browser such as Tor. Tor, formerly an acronym for the "Onion Router," is a free and open-source software intended to protect the personal privacy of its users and keep their Internet activities unmonitored.
The Dark Web encompasses a variety of content ranging from progressive and benevolent to violence and disruption. In recent years, interests in the Dark Web as a platform for criminal and illegal activities have emerged. Studying the Dark Web poses unique challenges as well as opportunities. The goal of this special issue is to provide a platform for researchers and criminologists to share and discuss innovative research design and methods to shed light on the actual activity going on in the Dark web's shadowy realms. Only articles describing previously unpublished, original, state-of-the-art research, and not currently under review by a conference or journal will be considered.
A one-page abstract should be submitted electronically to fawnngo@usf.edu by November 1, 2021. The abstract should contain details of the design and methodological framework adopted for the study. Authors of selected abstracts will be notified by January 1, 2022. Final manuscripts are due by May 1, 2022. Manuscripts should not exceed 25 pages of double-spaced text (including tables, figures, and references). Send two electronic copies of the manuscript, one full version (with a cover page containing the author's name, title, institutional contact information; acknowledgments), and one blind copy (without any identifying information) to Fawn Ngo at fawnngo@usf.edu. All manuscripts should be in MS Word format and conform to the formatting style of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (6th ed). |
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