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When victims are criminalized for surviving exploitation

I was trafficked as a minor and now I'm being prosecuted for crimes I was forced to commit and the system treats me like a criminal instead of a victim.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Legal categories are failing to recognize how victimization and criminalization can be the same phenomenon.

Ideas that help explain it
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