Submit a Manuscript to the Journal
Journal of Offender Rehabilitation

For a Special Issue on
Human Trafficking Victim Restoration and Offender Rehabilitation

The Special Issue, “Human Trafficking Victim Restoration and Offender Rehabilitation” aims to build a pioneering body of knowledge on the rehabilitation of perpetrators of human trafficking crimes and the restoration of victims.

While there is some literature on traffickers’ behaviors and criminal activities, there is a lack of knowledge on interventions that focus on preventing individuals from becoming traffickers or rehabilitating former offenders of human trafficking crimes. There is also insufficient knowledge on programs addressing the restoration of human trafficking victims who have become or been considered human trafficking offenders by the criminal justice system.

 We invite you to submit to this Special Issue your manuscripts discussing findings from research, program evaluations, promising practices, and systematic reviews on the following special aspects: rehabilitation and community re-entry programs targeting offenders or former offenders of any form of human trafficking; prevention of the grooming of individuals into traffickers; and restoration of human trafficking victims.

Potential topics for the Special Issue include:

• Alternatives to the incarceration of former trafficking victims who have turned into trafficking offenders
• Alternatives to the criminalization of trafficking victims
• Diversion programs for sex buyers in detention
• Evaluation of prostitution court programs
• Prevention programs for youth at risk of becoming traffickers
• Prevention of trafficking of persons in detention and after release
• Rehabilitation and community re-entry of human trafficking offenders
• Restorative justice for human trafficking victims.

Articles published in the Special Issue would be of interest to researchers, policymakers, educators, social service providers, criminal justice stakeholders, and other anti-trafficking stakeholders in every sector and discipline.

If you are interested in contributing a paper, please send to the Guest Editor Charles Hounmenou, at [email protected], a tentative title and short abstract in advance for us to conduct a suitability check on your topic by April 30, 2023. We would greatly appreciate it if you could recommend the Special Issue to your colleagues who may be interested.

• Select "Human Trafficking Victim Restoration and Offender Rehabilitation” when submitting your paper to ScholarOne.
• Types of papers that will be accepted include original or secondary data research using quantitative, qualitative, or mixed methods, program evaluations, conceptual papers, and literature reviews.
• Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, even in conference proceedings, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere. Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English.
• All submissions that pass pre-check will be refereed through a double-blind peer-review process.
• Each accepted paper will be published in the journal and listed on the special issue website as soon as the decision is made.

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