Background: Domestic minor sex trafficking (DMST) is an important social and public health
problem, but it has received little attention from healthcare professionals in research …

This paper reviews and evaluates the literatures on children in families that are homeless
and on adolescents who are homeless on their own. After presenting several emerging …

The concept of'social capital'is currently the focus of an explosion of interest in the research
and policy community. It refers to the social networks, informal structures and norms that …

Youth homelessness continues to be a seemingly intractable problem in Canada. We
believe there are solutions, and that means leveraging the best knowledge we have to do …

Created as an alternative to the punishment-oriented criminal justice system, the juvenile
court is a unique American invention that has been replicated around the world. But to say …

"[Gangs in America′ s Communities] is one of the most comprehensive treatments of gangs
in the marketplace.... I highly recommend its adoption as you will not be disappointed and …

Prostitution, payment for the exchange of sexual services, is deemed a major social problem
in most countries around the world today, with little to no consensus on how to address it. In …

This article explores the victimization experiences of street youth living in Toronto, Canada. It
is argued that street youth are much more likely than domiciled youth to be victims of a broad …

When data for 2009 through 2013 are included (table 6.2), we find that for the first fourteen
years of the TVPA, arrests of young people for prostitutionrelated offenses decreased nearly …

Behaviors beginning in childhood or adolescence may mediate the relationship between
childhood maltreatment and involvement in prostitution. This paper examines 5 potential …