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Evaluating Anti-Trafficking Interventions
Critical Reflections and Lessons from the Field
Both a practical companion guide to and a critical reflection on the merits and shortcomings of evaluation in anti-trafficking efforts.
Despite vast investment in anti-trafficking measures worldwide, there is a stark lack of evidence of effective interventions. It is unethical and ineffective to keep throwing money at anti-trafficking efforts without a more nuanced understanding of how they can help and harm. After all, advances in crime prevention and harm reduction both rely heavily on evaluation science. Bringing together contributors from across different perspectives, disciplines, backgrounds, and geographies, Evaluating Anti-Trafficking Interventions focuses on the sharp end of criminal abuses. It offers both practical guidance and critical reflections on the promises and pitfalls of evaluation for anti-trafficking interventions. The book also introduces foundational theory and practice around evaluations (including both qualitative and quantitative evidence), highlights innovative new directions, and draws lessons from real-world case studies. It is designed to function both as a practical companion guide and to stimulate reflection on the tensions and constraints of funding, doing, and assessing evaluations in this domain.
Despite vast investment in anti-trafficking measures worldwide, there is a stark lack of evidence of effective interventions. It is unethical and ineffective to keep throwing money at anti-trafficking efforts without a more nuanced understanding of how they can help and harm. After all, advances in crime prevention and harm reduction both rely heavily on evaluation science. Bringing together contributors from across different perspectives, disciplines, backgrounds, and geographies, Evaluating Anti-Trafficking Interventions focuses on the sharp end of criminal abuses. It offers both practical guidance and critical reflections on the promises and pitfalls of evaluation for anti-trafficking interventions. The book also introduces foundational theory and practice around evaluations (including both qualitative and quantitative evidence), highlights innovative new directions, and draws lessons from real-world case studies. It is designed to function both as a practical companion guide and to stimulate reflection on the tensions and constraints of funding, doing, and assessing evaluations in this domain.
Table of Contents
List of figures
List of tables
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
1 Introduction: when anti-trafficking meets evaluation
Ella Cockbain, Aiden Sidebottom and Sheldon X. Zhang
2 Success is in the eye of the funder: survivor engagement in anti-trafficking evaluations
Sabra Boyd
3 Use of randomised controlled trials to evaluate anti-trafficking programmes
Sheldon X. Zhang
4 Realist evaluation for anti-trafficking
Aiden Sidebottom, Ella Cockbain and Nick Tilley
5 Using agent-based modelling for anti-trafficking intervention theory development and evaluation
Alys McAlpine and Daniel Birks
6 Systematic reviews in the field of trafficking in human beings: possibilities and impossibilities
Peter van der Laan and Monika Smit
7 Evidence will not be enough: how moral panics and strategic interests bend policy and practice
Joel Quirk
8 Maximising the potential of anti-trafficking interventions through intervention development research
Ligia Kiss and Cathy Zimmerman
9 Impact evaluation of a trafficking-in-persons prevention programme in Cambodia
Protik Ali, Roy Ahn and Clifford Zinnes
10 Evaluation of a trial of Independent Child Trafficking Advocates
Patricia Hynes
11 The Blue Campaign: a case study on the evaluation of human trafficking informational campaigns
Elena Savoia and Rachael Piltch-Loeb
Index
List of tables
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
1 Introduction: when anti-trafficking meets evaluation
Ella Cockbain, Aiden Sidebottom and Sheldon X. Zhang
2 Success is in the eye of the funder: survivor engagement in anti-trafficking evaluations
Sabra Boyd
3 Use of randomised controlled trials to evaluate anti-trafficking programmes
Sheldon X. Zhang
4 Realist evaluation for anti-trafficking
Aiden Sidebottom, Ella Cockbain and Nick Tilley
5 Using agent-based modelling for anti-trafficking intervention theory development and evaluation
Alys McAlpine and Daniel Birks
6 Systematic reviews in the field of trafficking in human beings: possibilities and impossibilities
Peter van der Laan and Monika Smit
7 Evidence will not be enough: how moral panics and strategic interests bend policy and practice
Joel Quirk
8 Maximising the potential of anti-trafficking interventions through intervention development research
Ligia Kiss and Cathy Zimmerman
9 Impact evaluation of a trafficking-in-persons prevention programme in Cambodia
Protik Ali, Roy Ahn and Clifford Zinnes
10 Evaluation of a trial of Independent Child Trafficking Advocates
Patricia Hynes
11 The Blue Campaign: a case study on the evaluation of human trafficking informational campaigns
Elena Savoia and Rachael Piltch-Loeb
Index