Despite extant literature on individual-level risk factors for sex trafficking among children and adolescents, little is known about the impact of social and ecological contexts on risk of human trafficking victimization. The purpose of this study was to examine the correlates signaling risk of human trafficking victimization at the individual, family, social, and community levels utilizing a sample of 40,531 justice-involved male and female youth, a small fraction of whom were suspected or verified victims of human trafficking between 2011 and 2015 ( N = 801, including 699 female and 102 male youth). Using this sample, we examined differences across individual, family, social, and community characteristics of youth involved in the juvenile justice system who have a history of trafficking victimization and youth without such histories. Series of logistic regression analyses were conducted using varying control groups, created through exact matching and randomized matching groups to address sample imbalances. These analyses indicate that, at the individual level, youth who had experienced childhood adversities were more likely to report human trafficking victimization. Sex differences were found regarding risk factors pertaining to the family and broader socio-ecological contexts. Female youth who had witnessed family violence had an antisocial partner or antisocial friends, or resided in a community with a greater proportion of the population being foreign-born or speaking English less than very well were at heightened risk for human trafficking victimization. Little evidence was found for community-level risk factors of victimization in this specific sample of justice-involved youth. These findings encourage more research to unpack the multilevel correlates of victimizations at the individual, family, social, and community levels, recognizing potential differences between female and male youth regarding the factors that put them at heightened risk for juvenile sex trafficking victimizations. Practice and policy should direct awareness and prevention measures to social and ecological contexts.

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检查佛罗里达州青少年人口贩运受害的个人和背景相关性

尽管现有关于儿童和青少年性贩运的个人层面风险因素的文献，但人们对社会和生态环境对人口贩运受害风险的影响知之甚少。本研究的目的是通过 40,531 名参与正义的男性和女性青年样本（其中一小部分被怀疑或经核实的受害者）为样本，研究个人、家庭、社会和社区层面人口贩运受害风险的相关信号风险2011 年至 2015 年间的人口贩运（N = 801，其中 699 名女性和 102 名男性青年）。利用这个样本，我们研究了参与少年司法系统、有贩运受害史的青少年和没有此类历史的青少年在个人、家庭、社会和社区特征上的差异。使用不同的对照组进行了一系列逻辑回归分析，这些对照组是通过精确匹配和随机匹配组创建的，以解决样本不平衡问题。这些分析表明，在个人层面，经历过童年逆境的青少年更有可能报告人口贩运受害情况。在与家庭和更广泛的社会生态背景有关的风险因素方面发现了性别差异。目睹家庭暴力的女性青少年有反社会伴侣或反社会朋友，或者居住在外国出生人口比例较高或英语不太流利的社区，遭受人口贩运受害的风险更高。在参与司法的青年这一特定样本中，几乎没有发现社区层面受害风险因素的证据。这些发现鼓励更多的研究来揭示个人、家庭、社会和社区层面受害的多层次关联，认识到女性和男性青少年在青少年性贩运受害风险较高的因素方面存在潜在差异。实践和政策应将认识和预防措施引导到社会和生态背景。