2025

Resource Year Topic Type
Trends and New Directions in the Law Enforcement Response to the Sex Trafficking of Minors
Trends and New Directions in the Law Enforcement Response to the Sex Trafficking of Minors NIJ Award 2020-MU-CX-0041 Principal Investigator (PI…
 2025 Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children, Sexual Abuse, Technology/Internet Victimization Paper
Trends in Arrests and Investigative Techniques of Technology-Facilitated Child Sexual Exploitation Crimes: The 4th National Juvenile Online Victimization Study
Trends in Arrests and Investigative Techniques of Technology-Facilitated Child Sexual Exploitation Crimes: The 4th National Juvenile Online…
 2025 Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children, Sexual Abuse, Technology/Internet Victimization Paper
“I would say almost every single case has some sort of an internet connection”: Law enforcement and service provider insights on technology’s role in the commercial sexual exploitation of children and youth in the United States
Prior, A., O’Brien, J. E., Cattarin, E., Murphy, M., Zwerling Kahn, G., & Mitchell, K. J. (2025). “I would say almost every single case has some…
 2025 Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children, Technology/Internet Victimization Paper
Child Maltreatment in Youth-Serving Organizations: A Scoping Review
Finkelhor, D., Gast, L., Cavanaugh, C., Sutton, S., Jones, L. M., & Turner, H. (2025). Child Maltreatment in Youth-Serving Organizations: A…
 2025 General Child Victimization Paper
Building the Evidence on Preventing Youth Commercial Sexual Exploitation: A Nonrandomized, Quasi-experimental Evaluation of the Not a Number Trafficking Prevention Program
Jones, L. M., O’Brien, J. E., & Graham, S. E. Building the Evidence on Preventing Youth Commercial Sexual Exploitation: A Nonrandomized, Quasi-…
 2025 Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children, Evaluation Paper
Prevalence of exposure to someone else’s firearm violence, threats, and risky behavior among a national sample of young people in the United States
Mitchell KJ, Banyard V, Taylor BG, Mumford EA, Liu W and Turner HA (2025) Prevalence of exposure to someone else’s firearm violence, threats, and…
 2025 Firearm Violence Paper
Online Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse
Online Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse Findings from a National Survey David Finkelhor, Heather Turner, Deirdre Colburn, and Wendy Walsh
 2025 Technology/Internet Victimization Bulletin
Updated Trends in Child Maltreatment, 2023
New national data have been released for 2023, showing a 3% decline in the rate of all child abuse of compared to 2022.
2025 Trends In Child Victimization Bulletin
Meta-Analysis and Crossnational Comparisons of Sexual Violence Against Children
Finkelhor, D. (2025). Meta-Analysis and Crossnational Comparisons of Sexual Violence Against Children. JAMA pediatrics.
 2025 Sexual Abuse Paper
Tips for Choosing a Therapist to Treat Harmful Sibling Dynamics
This handout provides information and guidance to those looking for a therapist to address harmful sibling dynamics.
 2025 Sibling Aggression and Abuse Fact Sheet