November 28, 2021 Meeting with Rocchio

November 28, 2021 Meeting with Rocchio • LR has reviewed articles and found consistencies that strategies/techniques used by traffickers to entrap and then keep trafficking victims in relationship are nearly identical to those described in childhood sexual abuse literature as grooming; in trafficking literature referred to as entrapment and enmeshment; literature explains how analogous to literature on child sexual abuse and grooming more recent articles talk about concept of grooming as being more broadly applicable • Winters has article that just came out doing comprehensive literature review of sex trafficking literature; needs to be further replicated, but found that tactics used by child sex traffickers to recruit minors and maintain compliance are similar to CSA literature • Trauma bonding typically refers more to element of coercive control; involves power imbalance and relationship of coercive control (abusive behaviors interspersed with positive behaviors that c