How Anti-Sex Trafficking Efforts Should Align With Criminal Justice Reform.

Current law enforcement practices--including efforts to address sex trafficking--disproportionately harm Black people. This Article proposes that front-end criminal justice reforms to reduce the criminalization of poverty, reform racially biased police practices, and increase police accountability could mitigate the disparate impact that policing has on Black individuals being sex trafficked. Aligning anti-sex trafficking efforts with criminal justice reform would prioritize the prevention of sex trafficking as well as the protection of people who experience trafficking, while seeking to prosecute traffickers with less collateral harm to Black individuals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]