News Coverage of Sex Trafficking in the US: The Portrayal of Sex Traffickers

This thesis is a content analysis of news about sex trafficking published in the US from 2001 to 2013. The focus of the research is the portrayal of sex traffickers in the news. The project discovered that in the news, the public image of sex traffickers is overwhelmingly people of color who are de...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ta, Ngan
Other Authors: Carpenter, Kathie
Language:en_US
Published: University of Oregon 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1794/18497