Book chapter
When Monsters Are Real: Counteracting Malignant Systems
Human Trafficking: A Global Health Emergency, pp 343-374
01 Jan 2023
Abstract
The first half of this chapter focuses on the perpetrators of sexual trafficking by briefly reviewing what is thus far known about the pathophysiology of psychopaths and why young women, men, and children, especially those who have already suffered adversity and trauma, would be vulnerable to their influence. This vulnerability allows them to be captured by what are malignant systems, designed to enslave them for profit. To understand why trafficking victims are so vulnerable, it is necessary to understand attachment dynamics, trauma bonding, and the development of moral intelligence because these are the very dynamics that psychopaths intuitively understand but do not feel, making it so possible for them to use their target’s inherent human qualities to manipulate them. The second half of the chapter focuses on the challenges of creating a moral climate that can help victims with very complex problems to recover and describes a new online organizational framework, Creating Presence.
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Details
- Title
- When Monsters Are Real: Counteracting Malignant Systems
- Creators
- Sandra L. Bloom - Drexel University
- Publication Details
- Human Trafficking: A Global Health Emergency, pp 343-374
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing; Cham
- Number of pages
- 32
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Health Management and Policy
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85160222842
- Other Identifier
- 991021082496304721