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Home>What We Do>Bring Justice>Demanding Justice Project

Demanding Justice Project

The Demanding Justice Project is a research and advocacy initiative designed to promote demand deterrence through increased attention and advocacy on demand enforcement. The research report documents the outcomes of federal and state arrests, charges and prosecutions of buyers of sex acts with children. The findings of this research will inform advocacy efforts to strengthen anti-demand legislation and enforcement.

Video: Buyers Beware

Video: Demanding Justice

Prosecuting Demand as a Crime of Human Trafficking (2013)
Law Review Article
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Demanding Justice Arizona (2015)
A Field Assessment of Demand Deterrence and Enforcement and Justice for Victims
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Demanding Justice Report (2014)

The Demanding Justice Report captures information on the features of demand for sex acts with children, and criminal justice enforcement outcomes of the cases that are pursued as commercial sexual exploitation of children (CSEC), while exploring the challenges and successes of implementing anti-demand enforcement methods.

Demandingjustice.org Website 
Demanding Justice Report Fact Sheet
Demanding Justice Infographic

Demanding Justice Benchmark Assessment (2013)

The Demanding Justice Benchmark Assessment is an initial assessment of the criminal consequences for those who purchase sex with a minor in the United States since 2008. The study found though 48 states have a CSEC or trafficking law that pertains to buyers and buyers were identified in 47 states, only 18 of those states had a federal or state CSEC or trafficking conviction brought against a buyer.

Demanding Justice Fact Sheet

Case Studies

Demand Enforcement in the Dakotas
US vs. Dean Sacco
Working with Victims in Lakewood Case Comparison
Georgia vs. Sharifi
Fiero vs. Taylor
Enforcing New Demand Laws in Massachusetts
Sex Trafficking Buyer Convictions in Missouri
Arizona vs. Michael C. Gilliland Case Study

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