Medeiros and Griffith (2019) bring to the forefront the important role that industrial and organizational (I-O) psychologists have on the front lines of preventing sexual offenses by empowering and equipping employees via workplace trainings. This role cannot be denied, nor can it be overemphasized. However, it is also arguably shortsighted when viewed only within the bounds of employee-on-employee (or employee-on-client, etc.) sexual harassment/assault. That is, such a limited scope necessarily overlooks the notable potential that some workplaces have for reaching beyond their own walls to curb sexual offenses in the broader domain. To that end, we suggest that the insights of I-O psychologists in this area are applicable in responding to the humanitarian crisis of sex trafficking, one of the most visible facets of the broader problem of human trafficking. Sex trafficking—human trafficking for the purposes of sexual exploitation—is one of the most pervasive and devastating sexually based crimes of our time (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, 2012). Although sex trafficking does not operate within a particular company or corporation, it does operate through various businesses across a variety of sectors. Thus, there are a wide range of industries wherein employees are more likely to encounter trafficking victims, including the hospitality, transportation, and healthcare industries. Perhaps most notably, the hospitality industry plays a key role in sex trafficking, as hotel rooms are a common location for commercial sex. Indeed, the National Human Trafficking Hotline identifies hotels and motels as the location of approximately 70% of cases of reported sex trafficking, with traffickers commonly renting rooms out of which to run their operations. Although recent years have yielded advice to hotel guests to photograph their hotel rooms to aid in the investigation of sex trafficking (e.g., traffickcam.com by The Exchange Initiative), the power also lies more broadly with hotel chains and their employees, who are especially likely to encounter trafficking situations. In particular, these employees are in a unique position to recognize key industryspecific trafficking indicators, such as hotel guests paying in cash, travelers with little or no luggage, or a steady flow of different men visiting the same room (ECPAT-USA, 2017). As such, when hotel employees are trained to attune to these indicators, they are empowered to take action by reporting the suspected trafficking to authorities. Indeed, between 2008 and 2015, over 1,400 calls and texts to trafficking assistance hotlines originated from hotels (Polaris Project, 2015), indicating the important role that employees in this industry can play in curbing sex trafficking. A related industry similarly likely to encounter trafficking victims is the transportation industry. Indeed, transportation modalities, such as taxis, ride-sharing programs, buses, and commercial trucks, are common means via which to transport victims, as well as means used by victims themselves in attempts to escape the trafficking trade. Moreover, transportation hubs—for example, truck stops, bus and train stations, and airports—are common locales used by traffickers to target potential new victims. Convenience stores likewise occupy a key place in the trafficking process due to their access to transportation modalities. These businesses—particularly those

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超越员工：反拐培训促进社会变革

Medeiros 和 Griffith（2019 年）通过工作场所培训赋予员工权力和装备，将工业和组织 (IO) 心理学家在预防性犯罪的第一线发挥的重要作用推向了前沿。这个角色不能否认，也不能过分强调。然而，当仅在员工对员工（或员工对客户等）性骚扰/攻击的范围内看待时，它也可以说是短视的。也就是说，如此有限的范围必然会忽略一些工作场所在更广泛的领域内超越自己的围墙以遏制性犯罪的显着潜力。为此，我们建议 IO 心理学家在该领域的见解适用于应对性交易的人道主义危机，人口贩运这一更广泛的问题中最明显的方面之一。性贩运——以性剥削为目的的人口贩运——是我们这个时代最普遍、最具破坏性的性犯罪之一（联合国毒品和犯罪问题办公室，2012 年）。尽管性交易并不在特定的公司或公司内进行，但确实通过各个部门的各种业务进行。因此，在许多行业中，员工更有可能遇到人口贩运受害者，包括酒店、交通和医疗保健行业。也许最值得注意的是，酒店业在性交易中起着关键作用，因为酒店房间是商业性交易的常见场所。确实，全国人口贩卖热线将旅馆和汽车旅馆确定为大约 70% 的性贩卖案件的所在地，人贩子通常会租用房间来开展业务。尽管近年来酒店客人建议拍摄他们的酒店房间以帮助调查性交易（例如 Exchange Initiative 的 traffickcam.com），但权力也更广泛地掌握在连锁酒店及其员工身上，他们尤其是可能会遇到贩卖人口的情况。特别是，这些员工在识别关键行业特定的贩运指标方面处于独特的地位，例如酒店客人以现金支付、行李很少或没有行李的旅客，或者不同的人在同一个房间的稳定流动（ECPAT-USA，2017） . 因此，当酒店员工接受培训以适应这些指标时，他们就有权采取行动，向当局报告涉嫌贩卖人口的行为。事实上，在 2008 年至 2015 年期间，有 1,400 多个电话和短信来自酒店（Polaris Project，2015），这表明该行业的员工可以在遏制性交易方面发挥重要作用。同样可能遇到贩运受害者的相关行业是运输业。事实上，出租车、拼车项目、公共汽车和商用卡车等交通方式是运送受害者的常用手段，也是受害者自己试图逃离贩运贸易的手段。此外，交通枢纽——例如卡车停靠站、公共汽车站和火车站、和机场——是贩运者用来瞄准潜在新受害者的常见场所。便利店也因其可使用的运输方式而在贩运过程中占据重要地位。这些企业——尤其是那些