Publication: The Need for an Affirmative Defense for Victims of Sex Trafficking in Georgia
Third-Year law and CEASE student Copelenn McMahon (’23) recently published a blog post for the Georgia Law Review Online titled The Need for an Affirmative Defense for Victims of Sex Trafficking in Georgia. McMahon writes, “An affirmative defense of trafficking victimization would allow survivors charged with crimes to establish the interrelationship between the criminal conduct of which they are being charged and their trafficking victimization, therefore showing that they lacked the criminal intent to commit the crime… A trafficking-specific affirmative defense is responsive to the nuances of the dynamics of trafficking such as the ‘nature and extent of control exerted by sex traffickers, and the influence of trauma on the decision-making process and behavior of sex trafficking survivors.'” To learn more, read McMahon’s post.