Graduation Year
2018
Document Type
Campus Only Senior Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
Politics and International Relations
Reader 1
Mark Golub
Reader 2
Vanessa Tyson
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© 2017 Theresa Faltesek Gibbons
Abstract
Washington and Oregon are more renowned for their artisanal coffee shops, impressive mountainscapes, and booming technology industry than sex trafficking. Nevertheless, in coffee shops, using the roads that run through those mountain ranges, and capitalizing on the tech-driven population growth are traffickers who profit off the sexual exploitation of their victim’s bodies. Through careful examination of anti-trafficking theory, what is known about sex trafficking in the Pacific Northwest, and Washington and Oregon’s separate anti-trafficking efforts this thesis seeks to identify the reason why the region struggles to combat the sex trafficking circuit between Seattle and Portland. I determined that each state’s anti-trafficking efforts operate well in their separate spheres, but are not preventing the region’s sex trafficking economy from increasing. Since the problem defies state lines, maybe the solution should as well.
Recommended Citation
Faltesek Gibbons, Theresa, "The Circuit Breaker: Recommendations to Combat Sex Trafficking Between Seattle and Portland" (2018). Scripps Senior Theses. 1114.
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/1114
This thesis is restricted to the Claremont Colleges current faculty, students, and staff.
