Andrea J Nichols
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 644828 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Andrea J Nichols |
| PRENOMES | Andrea J |
| SOBRENOME | Nichols |
| ASSINATURA | NICHOLS A J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Washington University in St. Louis |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9259-1375 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 31 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 97 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 31 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2004 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
An Examination of Sex Trafficking by Race and Ethnicity in the State of Missouri on State and Local Levels
Studies examining the relationship between sex trafficking victimization and race/ethnicity are typically limited to organizational or national-level data. State-level and local-level analyses are limited and typically do not occur simultaneously. The aim of the current study is to examine the race/ethnicity of sex trafficking survivors relative to the population on state and local levels in the state of Missouri. Data were derived from survey re…
Vulnerabilities to Sex Trafficking and Barriers to Service Access by Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Disability
Anti-Trafficking Professionals’ Perspectives and Experiences Engaging Families with Interventions to Respond to Sex Trafficking of Minors
Identity Matching Among Human Trafficking Survivors and Providers
Structural and Interpersonal Oppressions Associated with Vulnerability to Human Trafficking Experienced by People with Disabilities
Examining the Use of Specialized Workgroups to Enact anti-Trafficking Coalition Strategic Planning in a Small Midwestern State
An integrated model of human trafficking response in the prosecution process
A State-Level Analysis of Demographic Characteristics and Sex Trafficking Experiences of Survivors
Targeted Funding for Anti-Trafficking Initiatives
Community-driven research is key to creating evidence-based collaborative systems that meet the multifaceted needs of human trafficking survivors and address oppressions that create vulnerabilities to human trafficking. Programmes and solutions require money and evidenced-informed processes, or they risk investing in systems that will not meet the needs of the intended target populations. This paper reflects on how a community-initiated research …
Family Involved Human Trafficking
Labor Trafficking in Missouri
Knowledge about labor trafficking (LT) lags behind extant understanding about sex trafficking due to the ability of LT to exist within legal frameworks, and it impacts some of the most oppressed and marginalized groups of people within our society. While the anti-trafficking movement is developing better understanding about LT broadly, nuances around the regions and industries in which LT exists, and the unique needs experienced by survivors have…
Team Approaches to Addressing Sex Trafficking of Minors
The extant research literature is lacking in its focus on community-based responses (CBRs) to sex trafficking involving minors in the juvenile justice system. To address this research gap, the present study draws from 35 interviews with social service and justice system practitioners who work with juvenile justice-involved minors experiencing sex trafficking to examine collaborative responses in two Study Sites. Specifically, protocols to respond…
Assets and Logic
Since knowledge about human trafficking has increased over the last 20 years, so have our understandings about interventions, survivor empowerment, and attention to intersectional forces that lead to trafficking vulnerability and exiting barriers experienced by survivors. An area lacking in such advancement, however, relates to collaborative community responses (CCRs), which have notably increased evidenced-based, effective responses in other pub…
Practitioners’ Perspectives of Family Involved Sex Trafficking of Minors
A Pilot Study Comparing Sex Trafficking Indicators Exhibited by Adult and Minor Service Populations
Indicators of sex trafficking are widely disseminated by organizations in the criminal justice, social service, healthcare, and community sectors. Drawing from a larger pilot study examining survey responses of providers working with sex trafficking survivors (N = 86), the present study specifically examines providers’ observations of 62 sex trafficking indicators comparing minor and adult service populations (n = 47) in a Midwestern metropolitan…
Social Work Education that Addresses Trafficking for Sexual Exploitation
Practice, policy, and research focused on trafficking for sexual exploitation and commercial sex involvement occur in the United States within a white, heteronormative social environment that must be addressed pedagogically in the classroom. Social work education increasingly includes the topic of trafficking for sexual exploitation as a stand-alone course or as sessions embedded within other courses. Yet, very little scholarship critically exami…
Advocacy Responses to Intimate Partner Stalking
How Sex Trading Identities Shape Experiences of Service Provision
The relationship between women’s identities of sex trading and their engagement with social service providers remains understudied. Drawing from larger grounded theory study, in-depth, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 30 adult women who traded sex as adults and 20 service providers who come into contact with this population in a U.S. Midwestern city. Women engaging in services were sampled through maximum variation sampling and wome…
Heterogeneous Perspectives in Coalitions and Community-Based Responses to Sex Trafficking and Commercial Sexual Exploitation
Despite increases in community-based coalitions to address sex trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation (CSE), and the coinciding ideological debates surrounding sexual commerce, few studies have examined the dynamics between and perspectives among coalition members. This paper aims to explore 1) coalition members' perspectives on religion, politics, feminism, sex trafficking/sex work, neoliberalism/neo-abolitionism and 2) the impacts of su…
What's in a Name? Benefits and Challenges of Anti-Trafficking Language in Social Service Provider Perspective
The language used to address service populations involved in commercial sex is laden with meaning that impacts understandings of and responses to the issue. While debates over use of the terms sex trafficking, commercial sexual exploitation, sex work, and modern-day slavery are well established in the academic literature, relatively little of this work is derived from original research examining the perceptions and experiences of social service p…
Sex Trafficking and Commercial Sexual Exploitation
Lessons Learned
Over the last few decades, service providers and community members have organized and created interagency coalitions to address issues of sex trafficking. Such efforts include grassroots and government-funded coalitions, which typically provide education, training, and awareness about sex trafficking and encourage collaboration and coordinated services among community partners. However, the benefits and challenges of such coalitions within local …
Sex Trafficking in the United States
Andrea J. Nichols explores the dynamics of sex trafficking from the angles of survivors, perpetrators, facilitators, and the social service and criminal justice professionals who work in the field. Sex Trafficking in the United States is essential for understanding an exploitative industry and for curbing its spread among at-risk populations
Design strategies from sexual exploitation and sex work studies among women and girls
The study of sex trafficking, prostitution, sex work, and sexual exploitation is associated with many methodological issues and challenges. Researchers’ study designs must consider the many safety issues related to this vulnerable and hidden population. Community advisory boards and key stakeholder involvement are essential to study design to increase safety of participants, usefulness of study aims, and meaningfulness of conclusions. Nonrandomiz…
Sex Trafficking and Commercial Sexual Exploitation
Design strategies from sexual exploitation and sex work studies among women and girls
The study of sex trafficking, prostitution, sex work, and sexual exploitation is associated with many methodological issues and challenges. Researchers’ study designs must consider the many safety issues related to this vulnerable and hidden population. Community advisory boards and key stakeholder involvement are essential to study design to increase safety of participants, usefulness of study aims, and meaningfulness of conclusions. Nonrandomiz…
Dance Ponnaya, Dance! Police Abuses Against Transgender Sex Workers in Sri Lanka
Feminist theory and research are limited in their focus on intersections of gender and sexual orientation in the victimization of sex workers. Through inductive analysis of 24 in-depth interviews and 3 focus groups with male-to-female transgender sex workers in Sri Lanka, police mistreatment was examined to show how the abuses sex workers experience reflect the intersectional nature of gendered victimization. Findings indicate they experience vic…
Social Work Education that Addresses Trafficking for Sexual Exploitation
Practice, policy, and research focused on trafficking for sexual exploitation and commercial sex involvement occur in the United States within a white, heteronormative social environment that must be addressed pedagogically in the classroom. Social work education increasingly includes the topic of trafficking for sexual exploitation as a stand-alone course or as sessions embedded within other courses. Yet, very little scholarship critically exami…
Challenges to Identifying and Prosecuting Sex Trafficking Cases in the Midwest United States
Drawing from 12 in-depth interviews and two focus groups with prosecutors, attorneys, victim advocates, social service providers, and police in an urban Midwestern city, challenges to identifying and prosecuting sex trafficking cases are examined. Challenges to identification included trafficking techniques such as coercion, online solicitation, hidden venues, and interstate movement, as well as issues with police reporting and investigation. Cha…
Lessons Learned
Over the last few decades, service providers and community members have organized and created interagency coalitions to address issues of sex trafficking. Such efforts include grassroots and government-funded coalitions, which typically provide education, training, and awareness about sex trafficking and encourage collaboration and coordinated services among community partners. However, the benefits and challenges of such coalitions within local …
Gendered Organizations
Acker’s theory of gendered organizations serves as an important theoretical lens for researching the gendered processes of domestic violence organizations. Specifically, I document challenges presented to domestic violence victim advocates as a result of gendered processes in community based responses to domestic violence and offer specific policy suggestions for future collaborations between stakeholders in combating domestic violence
Meaning-Making and Domestic Violence Victim Advocacy
Early domestic violence victim advocacy included survivor-defined, intersectional, and social change practices rooted in feminism. Yet, research specifically examining the ways that advocates identify with and make meaning of feminism, and the relationship of such meanings to advocates’ practices, is limited. Drawing from interviews with 26 domestic violence victim advocates, the interaction between feminist identity, ideology, and practices is e…
How Sex Trading Identities Shape Experiences of Service Provision
The relationship between women’s identities of sex trading and their engagement with social service providers remains understudied. Drawing from larger grounded theory study, in-depth, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 30 adult women who traded sex as adults and 20 service providers who come into contact with this population in a U.S. Midwestern city. Women engaging in services were sampled through maximum variation sampling and wome…
Assets and Logic
Since knowledge about human trafficking has increased over the last 20 years, so have our understandings about interventions, survivor empowerment, and attention to intersectional forces that lead to trafficking vulnerability and exiting barriers experienced by survivors. An area lacking in such advancement, however, relates to collaborative community responses (CCRs), which have notably increased evidenced-based, effective responses in other pub…
What's in a Name? Benefits and Challenges of Anti-Trafficking Language in Social Service Provider Perspective
The language used to address service populations involved in commercial sex is laden with meaning that impacts understandings of and responses to the issue. While debates over use of the terms sex trafficking, commercial sexual exploitation, sex work, and modern-day slavery are well established in the academic literature, relatively little of this work is derived from original research examining the perceptions and experiences of social service p…
Practitioners’ Perspectives of Family Involved Sex Trafficking of Minors
Advocacy Responses to Intimate Partner Stalking
Examining the Use of Specialized Workgroups to Enact anti-Trafficking Coalition Strategic Planning in a Small Midwestern State
Targeted Funding for Anti-Trafficking Initiatives
Community-driven research is key to creating evidence-based collaborative systems that meet the multifaceted needs of human trafficking survivors and address oppressions that create vulnerabilities to human trafficking. Programmes and solutions require money and evidenced-informed processes, or they risk investing in systems that will not meet the needs of the intended target populations. This paper reflects on how a community-initiated research …
Family Involved Human Trafficking
Team Approaches to Addressing Sex Trafficking of Minors
The extant research literature is lacking in its focus on community-based responses (CBRs) to sex trafficking involving minors in the juvenile justice system. To address this research gap, the present study draws from 35 interviews with social service and justice system practitioners who work with juvenile justice-involved minors experiencing sex trafficking to examine collaborative responses in two Study Sites. Specifically, protocols to respond…
Heterogeneous Perspectives in Coalitions and Community-Based Responses to Sex Trafficking and Commercial Sexual Exploitation
Despite increases in community-based coalitions to address sex trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation (CSE), and the coinciding ideological debates surrounding sexual commerce, few studies have examined the dynamics between and perspectives among coalition members. This paper aims to explore 1) coalition members' perspectives on religion, politics, feminism, sex trafficking/sex work, neoliberalism/neo-abolitionism and 2) the impacts of su…
The Constitutionality of the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act under the Establishment Clause
Journal Article The Constitutionality of the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act under the Establishment Clause Get access Andrew C. Nichols Andrew C. Nichols associate with Preston Gates, Ellis & Rouvelas Meeds, Washington, D.C. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Church and State, Volume 46, Issue 2, Spring 2004, Pages 281–310, https://doi.org/10.1093/jcs/46.2.281 Published: 01 Ma…
Dance Ponnaya, Dance! Police Abuses Against Transgender Sex Workers in Sri Lanka
Feminist theory and research are limited in their focus on intersections of gender and sexual orientation in the victimization of sex workers. Through inductive analysis of 24 in-depth interviews and 3 focus groups with male-to-female transgender sex workers in Sri Lanka, police mistreatment was examined to show how the abuses sex workers experience reflect the intersectional nature of gendered victimization. Findings indicate they experience vic…
Gendered Organizations
Acker’s theory of gendered organizations serves as an important theoretical lens for researching the gendered processes of domestic violence organizations. Specifically, I document challenges presented to domestic violence victim advocates as a result of gendered processes in community based responses to domestic violence and offer specific policy suggestions for future collaborations between stakeholders in combating domestic violence
Identity, sexuality and commercial sex among Sri Lankan nachchi
This study investigates the complex and contradictory ways in which gender identity, sexuality, and desire are configured in nachchi understandings of their lives in Sri Lanka. Nachchi was an insider term used by a group of sex workers best conceptualized using western understandings as both transgender and homosexual: nachchi celebrate their feminine gendered subjectivity, but also embrace key facets of their biological ‘maleness,’ and are arden…
Meaning-Making and Domestic Violence Victim Advocacy
Early domestic violence victim advocacy included survivor-defined, intersectional, and social change practices rooted in feminism. Yet, research specifically examining the ways that advocates identify with and make meaning of feminism, and the relationship of such meanings to advocates’ practices, is limited. Drawing from interviews with 26 domestic violence victim advocates, the interaction between feminist identity, ideology, and practices is e…
Challenges to Identifying and Prosecuting Sex Trafficking Cases in the Midwest United States
Drawing from 12 in-depth interviews and two focus groups with prosecutors, attorneys, victim advocates, social service providers, and police in an urban Midwestern city, challenges to identifying and prosecuting sex trafficking cases are examined. Challenges to identification included trafficking techniques such as coercion, online solicitation, hidden venues, and interstate movement, as well as issues with police reporting and investigation. Cha…
Sex Trafficking in the United States
Andrea J. Nichols explores the dynamics of sex trafficking from the angles of survivors, perpetrators, facilitators, and the social service and criminal justice professionals who work in the field. Sex Trafficking in the United States is essential for understanding an exploitative industry and for curbing its spread among at-risk populations
Design strategies from sexual exploitation and sex work studies among women and girls
The study of sex trafficking, prostitution, sex work, and sexual exploitation is associated with many methodological issues and challenges. Researchers’ study designs must consider the many safety issues related to this vulnerable and hidden population. Community advisory boards and key stakeholder involvement are essential to study design to increase safety of participants, usefulness of study aims, and meaningfulness of conclusions. Nonrandomiz…
Sex Trafficking and Commercial Sexual Exploitation
Lessons Learned
Over the last few decades, service providers and community members have organized and created interagency coalitions to address issues of sex trafficking. Such efforts include grassroots and government-funded coalitions, which typically provide education, training, and awareness about sex trafficking and encourage collaboration and coordinated services among community partners. However, the benefits and challenges of such coalitions within local …
Heterogeneous Perspectives in Coalitions and Community-Based Responses to Sex Trafficking and Commercial Sexual Exploitation
Despite increases in community-based coalitions to address sex trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation (CSE), and the coinciding ideological debates surrounding sexual commerce, few studies have examined the dynamics between and perspectives among coalition members. This paper aims to explore 1) coalition members' perspectives on religion, politics, feminism, sex trafficking/sex work, neoliberalism/neo-abolitionism and 2) the impacts of su…
What's in a Name? Benefits and Challenges of Anti-Trafficking Language in Social Service Provider Perspective
The language used to address service populations involved in commercial sex is laden with meaning that impacts understandings of and responses to the issue. While debates over use of the terms sex trafficking, commercial sexual exploitation, sex work, and modern-day slavery are well established in the academic literature, relatively little of this work is derived from original research examining the perceptions and experiences of social service p…
Advocacy Responses to Intimate Partner Stalking
How Sex Trading Identities Shape Experiences of Service Provision
The relationship between women’s identities of sex trading and their engagement with social service providers remains understudied. Drawing from larger grounded theory study, in-depth, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 30 adult women who traded sex as adults and 20 service providers who come into contact with this population in a U.S. Midwestern city. Women engaging in services were sampled through maximum variation sampling and wome…
A Pilot Study Comparing Sex Trafficking Indicators Exhibited by Adult and Minor Service Populations
Indicators of sex trafficking are widely disseminated by organizations in the criminal justice, social service, healthcare, and community sectors. Drawing from a larger pilot study examining survey responses of providers working with sex trafficking survivors (N = 86), the present study specifically examines providers’ observations of 62 sex trafficking indicators comparing minor and adult service populations (n = 47) in a Midwestern metropolitan…
Social Work Education that Addresses Trafficking for Sexual Exploitation
Practice, policy, and research focused on trafficking for sexual exploitation and commercial sex involvement occur in the United States within a white, heteronormative social environment that must be addressed pedagogically in the classroom. Social work education increasingly includes the topic of trafficking for sexual exploitation as a stand-alone course or as sessions embedded within other courses. Yet, very little scholarship critically exami…
Labor Trafficking in Missouri
Knowledge about labor trafficking (LT) lags behind extant understanding about sex trafficking due to the ability of LT to exist within legal frameworks, and it impacts some of the most oppressed and marginalized groups of people within our society. While the anti-trafficking movement is developing better understanding about LT broadly, nuances around the regions and industries in which LT exists, and the unique needs experienced by survivors have…
Team Approaches to Addressing Sex Trafficking of Minors
The extant research literature is lacking in its focus on community-based responses (CBRs) to sex trafficking involving minors in the juvenile justice system. To address this research gap, the present study draws from 35 interviews with social service and justice system practitioners who work with juvenile justice-involved minors experiencing sex trafficking to examine collaborative responses in two Study Sites. Specifically, protocols to respond…
Assets and Logic
Since knowledge about human trafficking has increased over the last 20 years, so have our understandings about interventions, survivor empowerment, and attention to intersectional forces that lead to trafficking vulnerability and exiting barriers experienced by survivors. An area lacking in such advancement, however, relates to collaborative community responses (CCRs), which have notably increased evidenced-based, effective responses in other pub…
Practitioners’ Perspectives of Family Involved Sex Trafficking of Minors
An integrated model of human trafficking response in the prosecution process
Sex Trafficking and Commercial Sexual Exploitation
A State-Level Analysis of Demographic Characteristics and Sex Trafficking Experiences of Survivors
Targeted Funding for Anti-Trafficking Initiatives
Community-driven research is key to creating evidence-based collaborative systems that meet the multifaceted needs of human trafficking survivors and address oppressions that create vulnerabilities to human trafficking. Programmes and solutions require money and evidenced-informed processes, or they risk investing in systems that will not meet the needs of the intended target populations. This paper reflects on how a community-initiated research …
Family Involved Human Trafficking
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