Safe harbor laws are designed to redirect young victims of commercial sexual exploitation away from justice system involvement by prohibiting their arrest and prosecution as criminals. A quasi‐experimental design was used to compare prostitution‐related crime and sex abuse maltreatment trends at the county level in states that have implemented safe harbor laws with a comparison group of counties in states that have not implemented safe harbor laws. Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) were used to measure prostitution‐related crime trends, while National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System (NCANDS) data were used to measure sex abuse maltreatment trends. We used a multilevel Poisson regression model to analyze the change in prostitution‐related crime and sex abuse maltreatment trends in treatment and comparison counties over an 11‐year observation period (2005–15).

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从小人到受害者

安全港法律旨在通过禁止以性犯罪形式逮捕和起诉商业性性剥削的年轻受害者，使其脱离司法系统。准实验设计用于比较已实施安全港法律的州的县级与卖淫相关的犯罪和性虐待的趋势，以及未实施安全港法律的州的比较县。统一犯罪报告（UCR）用于衡量与卖淫相关的犯罪趋势，而全国虐待和忽视儿童数据系统（NCANDS）数据用于衡量对性虐待的虐待趋势。