25+ Resources on Trafficking and Exploitation

Exploitation is a cycle of brokenness with countless causes and damaging effects.

Whether you’re wanting to heal, working in a role that fights exploitation, trying to help someone who has been abused, or researching to better understand exploitation and trafficking, you can better equip yourself by learning not only the facts but also some of the stories of exploitation.

Here are some of our favorite resources to help you learn about exploitation, abuse, trauma, Pornography and trafficking.

• God in a Brothel:  An Undercover Journey into Sex Trafficking by Daniel Walker

• The Lucky One: A Chilling True Account of Child Sex Trafficking and One Survivor's Journey from Brutal Captivity to a Life of Freedom by Jenni Jessen

• Escaping the Devil’s Bedroom by Dawn Herzog Jewell

• Hands that Heal - http://faastinternational.org/hands-that-heal

• The White Umbrella by Mary Frances Bowley

• Ever Surrender by Joe Vigliano

• Valley of Chaya by Tracey Hoffman

• A Walk Across the Sun by Corban Addison

• The Urban Halo by Craig Greenfield

• Wired for Intimacy: How Pornography Hijacks the Male Brain by William Struthers

• Moral Revolution: The Naked Truth about Sexual Purity by Kris and Jason Vallotton

• The Naked Truth about Sexuality by Havilah Cunnington

• The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel Van Der Kolk

• Generous Justice:  How God’s Justice makes us Just by Timothy Keller

• God of Justice: The IJM Institute Global Church Curriculum

• Toxic Charity: How the Church Hurts those they Help and how to Reverse it by Robert Lupton

• The Locust Effect: Why the End of Poverty Requires the End of Violence by Gary Haugen

• Terrify No More by Gary Haugen

• The Wounded Heart by Dr. Dan Allender

• Healing the Wounded Heart: The Heartache of Sexual Abuse and the Hope of Transformation by Dr. Dan Allender

• Mending the Soul: Understanding and Healing Abuse by Steven Tracy

• Princess Found by Steven Tracy

• Glorious Ruin: How Suffering Sets you Free by Tullian Tchividjian

• From Shame to Peace by Teo Van Der Weele

• Rid of My Disgrace by Justin and Lindsey Holcomb

• Cry for Justice by Shelley Hundley 

• False Justice: Unveiling the Truth about Social Justice by Stuart Greaves 

• Justice Awakening: How you and your Church can Help End Human Trafficking by Eddie Byun 

• The Essential Abolitionist by John Vanek 

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