Just Exits: Achieving Justice: The Prosecutor’s Role
Dec 09, 2020
Employ strategies for achieving justice for survivors of exploitation who intersect with the criminal justice system.
Resource type
Webinars
Author(s)
Jane Anderson (Attorney Advisor, AEquitas); Joy Friedman (Joy Friedman Consulting); Jeri Moomaw (Executive Director, Innovations Human Trafficking Collaborative)
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The criminal justice system can serve as both an on-ramp to and an off-ramp from sex trafficking and exploitation. As gatekeepers within the criminal justice system, prosecutors are uniquely positioned to identify sexually exploited women and girls, make fair charging decisions, facilitate criminal record relief, and link survivors with services and support. In these ways, prosecutors can clear the way to a different life path and achieve justice for survivors.
The presenters bring their lived and professional experience to this presentation, which emphasizes prosecutors' duties to achieve justice over convictions and to proactively remedy wrongful convictions. Presenters discuss strategies for engaging survivors, avoiding wrongful criminalization, and providing access to just criminal record relief.