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Intro -- NATIONWIDE SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY REPORTING INITIATIVE -- NATIONWIDE SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY REPORTING INITIATIVE -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1 TERRORISM INFORMATION SHARING AND THE NATIONWIDE SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY REPORT INITIATIVE: BACKGROUND AND ISSUES FOR CONGRESS -- SUMMARY -- BACKGROUND -- WHY INFORMATION SHARING? -- Information-Sharing Systems -- SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY REPORTING -- NATIONWIDE SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY REPORTING INITIATIVE (NSI) -- Privacy and Civil Liberties Implications -- ISE SAR Functional Standard -- Community Outreach -- Building Communities of Trust Initiative (BCOT) -- "If You See Something, Say Something™" Campaign -- NSI Shared Space Architecture -- Training -- The NSI Pilot Project -- ISE-SAR EE Final Report Key Recommendations -- Formation of a Program Management Offi -- ISSUES FOR CONGRESS -- Too Many "Dots" -- Data Privacy and Access -- Information Technology (IT) Infrastructure -- Metrics -- APPENDIX A. SIGNIFICANT INFORMATION SHARING SYSTEMS -- Law Enforcement Online (LEO) -- Regional Information Sharing Systems Program (RISS) -- Homeland Security Information Network (HSIN) -- Law Enforcement Information Sharing Program (LEISP) -- OneDOJ System -- Law Enforcement National Data Exchange (N-DEx) -- FBI Terrorist Threat Information Tracking Systems -- Guardian -- eGuardian -- APPENDIX B. ACRONYMS USED IN THIS REPORT -- End Notes -- Chapter 2 INFORMATION SHARING: ADDITIONAL ACTIONS COULD HELP ENSURE THAT EFFORTS TO SHARE TERRORISM-RELATED SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY REPORTS ARE EFFECTIVE -- WHY GAO DID THIS STUDY -- WHAT GAO RECOMMENDS -- WHAT GAO FOUND -- ABBREVIATIONS -- BACKGROUND -- NSI Partners -- Nationwide SAR Process -- Systems Used to Share ISE-SARs -- Privacy and Civil Liberties -- ALMOST ALL FUSION CENTERS AND 53 FEDERAL AGENCIES ARE PARTICIPATING IN THE NSI, BUT FEEDBACK ON THE USE OF SARS COULD BE ENHANCED

Intro -- GOVERNMENT EFFICIENCY AND THE GPRA MODERNIZATION ACT -- GOVERNMENT EFFICIENCY AND THE GPRA MODERNIZATION ACT -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1 STREAMLINING GOVERNMENT: KEY PRACTICES FROM SELECT EFFICIENCY INITIATIVES SHOULD BE SHARED GOVERNMENTWIDE -- WHY GAO DID THIS STUDY -- WHAT GAO RECOMMENDS -- WHAT GAO FOUND -- ABBREVIATIONS -- BACKGROUND -- FEDERAL DEPARTMENTS REVIEWED ARE IMPLEMENTING A VARIETY OF INITIATIVES TO IMPROVE EFFICIENCY, AND HAVE REPORTED SOME INITIAL RESULTS -- Approaches to Reexamine Federal Programs, Structures, and/or Processes -- The Secretary of Defense's Efficiency Initiative -- HUD's Transformation Initiative -- VA's Operational Management Review -- Approaches to Streamline or Consolidate Existing Processes and Functions -- DHS' Efficiency Review -- VA's Project Management Accountability System (PMAS) -- DOD's Continuous Process Improvement/ Lean Six Sigma Program -- KEY PRACTICES SHOW PROMISE FOR IMPLEMENTING EFFICIENCY EFFORTS ACROSS GOVERNMENT -- KEY PRACTICE: USE CHANGE MANAGEMENT PRACTICES TO IMPLEMENT AND SUSTAIN EFFICIENCY INITIATIVES -- Top-Level Leadership: Held Regular Sessions to Track Progress of Major Departmental Initiatives, Led by the Secretary or Deputy Secretary -- Top-Level Leadership: Designated COOs and CMOs to Lead Efficiency Efforts -- Dedicated Implementation Team: Created Department-Level Team to Identify, Track, and Report on Efficiencies -- Set Goals and a Time Line: Established Specific Departmentwide Cost Savings and Efficiency Goals and an Implementation Time Line -- Involve Employees to Gain Their Ownership: Created an Ongoing Formal and Collaborative Structure That Involved Employees in Identifying and Implementing Efficiencies -- Involve Employees to Gain Their Ownership: Provided Financial or Nonfinancial Incentives for Identifying Efficiencies

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1 EU Youth Mobility: Questions, Methods, Concepts and Theories -- Introduction -- Aims and Questions -- The UK and London as a 'Magnet' for Young EU Migrants -- Methods -- Key Concepts Defined and Discussed -- Migration Versus Mobility -- Youth and Youth Transitions -- Study, Work and Skills -- Theoretical Perspectives -- From Neoclassical to Neoliberal: Free Movement and Human Capital -- Migration as an Expression of Core-Periphery Relations -- Lifestyle and Life-Stage: A Biographical Approach to Understanding New European Youth Migration -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 2 Destination London: Migration History and Motivations -- Introduction -- Theorising Migration Histories and Motivations: The Role of Youth Mobilities and Transitions -- Geographical Mobilities: Familial and Personal Histories -- Multiple Migrations Before the UK -- Macro-Level Determinants: Economy, Politics and Job Markets for Youth -- London: Good Universities, Good Jobs -- 'Let's See': Cultural Enrichment -- Personal Relations Overlap With Other Reasons -- Conclusions -- Note -- References -- Chapter 3 Employment Experiences: Building Careers and Independent Lives Abroad? -- Introduction -- Young Europeans' Employment Transitions and Upward Mobility Prospects -- Transitions to Adulthood -- Migrants and Social Mobility -- Intra-EU Movers, Skills and Occupational Mobility -- Working and Transitioning to Independence -- Finding Work: 'I Found a Job in Three Days' -- Financial and Residential Independence -- Limits to Independence -- Work Trajectories, Skills and Social Mobility -- Good Conditions, Training Opportunities and Fast Promotions -- High-Skilled Migrants, Low-Skilled Jobs and Multiple Forms of Downward Mobility.

Increase your employees'—and your own—productivity at workIf you look out over today's workforce, you'll find millions of hard-working people who are overly tired, overly stressed, and less than enchanted with work. For organizations around the globe, this represents an incredible opportunity to improve productivity, talent retention, innovation, and overall profitability.The great paradox here is that when you take hard-working, responsible adults with a desire to succeed and a sense of responsibility and drop them into our demanding work culture, they tend to default to a way of life that sabotages their ability and best efforts to reach their goals. That's where author Andy Core comes in. Change Your Day, Not Your Lifeoffers a proven strategy to help you become energized at work. This book is designed as a resource for work-life balance, a tool to help you increase productivity during the final two hours of work by up to 47 percent, content to fuel employee communication, and a curriculum that departments can use in weekly or monthly meetings to keep everyone working at their best.Author Andy Core is a credentialed, award-winning thought leader on increasing employee engagement, productivity, and wellness motivation; his talent lies in helping hard-working, conscientious adults thrive at work and in their personal livesTurn wasted hours into tasks accomplished by following the methods found in Change Your Day, Not Your Life.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1 Readings on Crime Control in America -- Editors' Introduction -- Why Is Crime Falling-Or Is It? -- High Incarceration Rate May Fuel Community Crime -- From C-Block to Academia: You Can't Get There from Here -- A New Suit by Farmers against the DEA Illustrates Why the War on Drugs Should Not Include a War on Hemp -- Chapter 2 Readings on A Crime by Any Other Name . . . -- Editors' Introduction -- When Workers Die: U.S. Rarely Seeks Charges for Deaths in Workplace -- The U.K.'s "Corporate Manslaughter" Statute: British versus American Approaches to Making Firms Responsible for Deaths Resulting from Gross Negligence -- The Checklist -- Popcorn Lung Coming to Your Kitchen? The FDA Doesn't Want to Know -- Death Sentences in Chinese Milk Case -- Chapter 3 Readings on . . . And the Poor Get Prison -- Editors' Introduction -- Race at Work: Realities of Race and Criminal Record in the NYC Job Market -- Why It Matters: The Connection of "Driving While Black" to Other Issues of Criminal Justice and Race -- Ebbers' 25 Year Sentence for WorldCom Fraud Upheld. Good. -- A Memo Found in the Street: Uncle Sam the Enabler -- They Warned Us: U.S. Was Told to "Expect Foreclosures, Expect Horror Stories" -- Chapter 4 Readings on To the Vanquished Belong the Spoils -- Editors' Introduction -- Why Are So Many Americans in Prison? Race and the Transformation of Criminal Justice -- The Moral Ambivalence of Crime in an Unjust Society -- Much Respect: Toward a Hip-Hop Theory of Punishment -- Wheel of Torture -- Conclusion Readings on Criminal Justice or Criminal Justice -- Editors' Introduction -- Restore Rationality to Sentencing Policy -- Encourage Restorative Justice -- Making Rehabilitation Corrections' Guiding Paradigm -- Save Children from a Life of Crime.

Written by the Founder and CEO of the prestigious New York School of Finance, this book schools you in the fundamental tools for accurately assessing the soundness of a stock investment. Built around a full-length case study of Wal-Mart, it shows you how to perform an in-depth analysis of that company's financial standing, walking you through all the steps of developing a sophisticated financial model as done by professional Wall Street analysts. You will construct a full scale financial model and valuation step-by-step as you page through the book. When we ran this analysis in January of 2012, we estimated the stock was undervalued. Since the first run of the analysis, the stock has increased 35 percent. Re-evaluating Wal-Mart 9months later, we will step through the techniques utilized by Wall Street analysts to build models on and properly value business entities. Step-by-step financial modeling - taught using downloadable Wall Street models, you will construct the model step by step as you page through the book. Hot keys and explicit Excel instructions aid even the novice excel modeler. Model built complete with Income Statement, Cash Flow Statement, Balance Sheet, Balance Sheet Balancing Techniques, Depreciation Schedule (complete with accelerating depreciation and deferring taxes), working capital schedule, debt schedule, handling circular references, and automatic debt pay downs. Illustrative concepts including detailing model flows help aid in conceptual understanding. Concepts are reiterated and honed, perfect for a novice yet detailed enough for a professional. Model built direct from Wal-Mart public filings, searching through notes, performing research, and illustrating techniques to formulate projections. Includes in-depth coverage of valuation techniques commonly used by Wall Street professionals. Illustrative comparable company

"Roderick Hart may be among the few Americans who believe that what politicians say in a campaign actually matters. He also believes that campaigns work. Even as television coverage, political ads, and opinion polls turn elections into field days for marketing professionals, Hart argues convincingly that campaigns do play their role in sustaining democracy, mainly because they bring about a dialogue among candidates, the press, and the people. Here he takes a close look at the exchange of ideas through language used in campaign speeches, political advertising, public debates, print and broadcast news, and a wide variety of letters to the editor. In each case, the participants choose their words differently, and this, according to Hart, can be a frustrating challenge to anyone trying to make sense of the issues. Yet he finds that the process is good for Americans: campaigns inform us about issues, sensitize us to the concerns of others, and either encourage us to vote or at least heighten our sense of the political world." "Hart comes to his conclusions by using Diction, a computer program that has enabled him to unearth substantive data, such as the many subtle shifts found in political language, over the past fifty years. This approach yields a rich variety of insights, including empirically based explanations of impressions created by political candidates. For example, in 1996 Bill Clinton successfully connected with voters by using many human-interest words--"you," "us," "people," "family." Bob Dole, however, alienated the public and even undermined his own claims of optimism by using an abundance of denial words--"can't," "shouldn't," "couldn't." Hart also tracks issue buzzwords such as "Medicare" to show how candidates and voters define and readjust their positions throughout the campaign dialogue

"Roderick Hart may be among the few Americans who believe that what politicians say in a campaign actually matters. He also believes that campaigns work. Even as television coverage, political ads, and opinion polls turn elections into field days for marketing professionals, Hart argues convincingly that campaigns do play their role in sustaining democracy, mainly because they bring about a dialogue among candidates, the press, and the people. Here he takes a close look at the exchange of ideas through language used in campaign speeches, political advertising, public debates, print and broadcast news, and a wide variety of letters to the editor. In each case, the participants choose their words differently, and this, according to Hart, can be a frustrating challenge to anyone trying to make sense of the issues. Yet he finds that the process is good for Americans: campaigns inform us about issues, sensitize us to the concerns of others, and either encourage us to vote or at least heighten our sense of the political world." "Hart comes to his conclusions by using Diction, a computer program that has enabled him to unearth substantive data, such as the many subtle shifts found in political language, over the past fifty years. This approach yields a rich variety of insights, including empirically based explanations of impressions created by political candidates. For example, in 1996 Bill Clinton successfully connected with voters by using many human-interest words--"you," "us," "people," "family." Bob Dole, however, alienated the public and even undermined his own claims of optimism by using an abundance of denial words--"can't," "shouldn't," "couldn't." Hart also tracks issue buzzwords such as "Medicare" to show how candidates and voters define and readjust their positions throughout the campaign dialogue."

For decades, leaders in Newark, New Jersey, have claimed their city is about to return to its vibrant past. How accurate is this prediction? Is Newark on the verge of revitalization? Robert Curvin, who was one of New Jersey's outstanding civil rights leaders, examines the city, chronicling its history, politics, and culture. Throughout the pages of Inside Newark, Curvin approaches his story both as an insider who is rooting for Newark and as an objective social scientist illuminating the causes and effects of sweeping changes in the city Based on historical records and revealing interviews with over one hundred residents and officials, Inside Newark traces Newark's history from the 1950s, when the city was a thriving industrial center, to the era of Mayor Cory Booker. Along the way, Curvin covers the disturbances of July 1967, called a riot by the media and a rebellion by residents; the administration of Kenneth Gibson, the first black mayor of a large northeastern city; and the era of Sharpe James, who was found guilty of corruption. Curvin examines damaging housing and mortgage policies, the state takeover of the failing school system, the persistence of corruption and patronage, Newark's shifting ethnic and racial composition, positive developments in housing and business complexes, and the reign of ambitious mayor Cory Booker. Inside Newark reveals a central weakness that continues to plague Newark—that throughout this history, elected officials have not risen to the challenges they have faced. Curvin calls on those in positions of influence to work for the social and economic improvement of all groups and concludes with suggestions for change, focusing on education reform, civic participation, financial management, partnerships with agencies and business, improving Newark's City Council, and limiting the term of the mayor. If Newark's leadership can encompass these changes, Newark will have a chance at a true turnaround. Watch a video with Robert Curvin: Watch video now. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-d6zV2OQ8A)

"For decades, leaders in Newark, New Jersey, have claimed their city is about to return to its vibrant past. How accurate is this prediction? Is Newark on the verge of revitalization? Robert Curvin, who was one of New Jersey's outstanding civil rights leaders, examines the city, chronicling its history, politics, and culture. Throughout the pages of Inside Newark, Curvin approaches his story both as an insider who is rooting for Newark and as an objective social scientist illuminating the causes and effects of sweeping changes in the city Based on historical records and revealing interviews with over one hundred residents and officials, Inside Newark traces Newark's history from the 1950s, when the city was a thriving industrial center, to the era of Mayor Cory Booker. Along the way, Curvin covers the disturbances of July 1967, called a riot by the media and a rebellion by residents; the administration of Kenneth Gibson, the first black mayor of a large northeastern city; and the era of Sharpe James, who was found guilty of corruption. Curvin examines damaging housing and mortgage policies, the state takeover of the failing school system, the persistence of corruption and patronage, Newark's shifting ethnic and racial composition, positive developments in housing and business complexes, and the reign of ambitious mayor Cory Booker. Inside Newark reveals a central weakness that continues to plague Newark--that throughout this history, elected officials have not risen to the challenges they have faced. Curvin calls on those in positions of influence to work for the social and economic improvement of all groups and concludes with suggestions for change, focusing on education reform, civic participation, financial management, partnerships with agencies and business, improving Newark's City Council, and limiting the term of the mayor. If Newark's leadership can encompass these changes, Newark will have a chance at a true turnaround. "--

This book analyzes the revenues from the creation of currency by a central government. Adopting an institutional perspective, it develops a general theory of seigniorage by identifying three monetary regimes in economic history and the history of economic thought: a commodity currency, a fiat currency and a credit currency regime. As such it provides a modern analytical framework to analyze the nature of revenues from the creation of currency and their optimal height, whether currency is issued by means of minting coins, by printing and spending paper notes, by crediting private entities, or combinations thereof. The results of this analysis stretch beyond the immediate topic. The book establishes a relationship between the theory of seigniorage and government debt, the theory of the interest rate, the optimal rate of inflation, or the effectiveness and inflationary limits of outright monetary transactions. Jens Reich studied economics and social sciences at Frankfurt University and at the New School for Social Research in New York. He received his PhD from Frankfurt University and has thaught at several Universities. He was, among others, Visiting Assistant Professor at Université Lumiere Lyon 2 (Minerve Program) and holds a lectureship at Frankfurt University. He published in several Journals and edited volumes, among others with Claudia M. Buch, Vice-President of the Deutsche Bundesbank. In 2014, he left the division for Financial Market and Financial Economics at the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) and joined the German Central Bank (Bundesbank) where he is currently Senior Economist in the Division for General Policy on Macroprudential Policy Issues in the Department for Financial Stability. He is founder and organizer of the sole PhD and Post-Doc colloquium for the history of economic thought in the German speaking area, which from 2017 onward is officially part of the Verein für Socialpolitik. His research focusses on monetary theory.

We're in a fight to save our liberties--and we're losing For most of us, the Bill of Rights is sacred. It enshrines, defines, and protects the liberties we take for granted as Americans. But almost unnoticed, a dedicated minority of special interests is chipping away at the Bill of Rights to the point that, while the words might remain in the Constitution, the rights themselves will be lost. Frank Miniter, New York Times bestselling author of The Ultimate Man's Survival Guide, has seen firsthand--and exposed as a journalist--the relentless assaults that are stripping away our Second Amendment rights. Now he reports on the broad, radical offensive that targets not just our right to bear arms, but all our rights, including the First Amendment's guarantee of free speech and religion. In Saving the Bill of Rights, you'll learn Why you could be guilty of "thought crimes"--thanks to a bill signed into law by President Obama How liberals in the federal government are using "net neutrality" to stifle free speech Why the Founders would be appalled at how "separation of church and state" (a phrase not found in the Constitution) has been manipulated to drive Christianity out of the public square How your right to property, guaranteed by the Fifth Amendment, has been put at risk by government greed Why opponents of the aggressive interrogation of terrorists are false civil libertarians How the Ninth Amendment is deliberately misread in order to increase government power How liberals have tried to kill the Constitution through endless violations of the Tenth Amendment--and how restoring the Tenth Amendment could help save some of our imperiled liberties Thorough, thought-provoking, and engaging, Frank Miniter's Saving the Bill of Rights could be the most important book you read this year.

Alexander Heinze untersucht die unterschiedliche Interpretation der Beweisoffenlegungsregelungen vor dem Internationalen Strafgerichtshof (IStGH) und schlägt ein neues System der Beweisoffenlegung vor, in dem die Parteien die Konsequenzen ihres Handels im Allgemeinen und der Verletzung ihrer Offenlegungspflichten im Speziellen in Grundzügen voraussehen können. Durch eine kritische Rechtsprechungsanalyse weist er nach, dass die uneinheitliche Einordnung des geltenden IStGH-Prozesssystems über die Anwendung der systematischen Auslegungsmethode direkte Auswirkungen auf die Lösung prozessualer Fragestellungen hat, von denen die Beweisoffenlegung das prominenteste Beispiel darstellt. Aus diesem Grund klassifiziert der Autor den IStGH-Prozess neu und kommt zu dem Schluss, dass es sich bei dem IStGH um ein »hierarchisch« strukturiertes Gericht in Form einer internationalen Organisation handelt, dessen Prozesssystem dem »programmatischen« Ideal gleicht. Diese Klassifizierung wird nun als allgemeine Rechtslehre im technischen Sinne für eine weite systematische Auslegung fruchtbar gemacht und direkt auf die bestehenden Beweisoffenlegungsregelungen angewendet. Aufwendige philosophische und rechtstheoretische Überlegungen werden so mit einer hoch relevanten und praktischen Fragestellung verknüpft. / »International Criminal Procedure and Disclosure« analyses the different interpretations of disclosure rules at the International Criminal Court (ICC) and introduces a new disclosure regime, where the parties will be able to actually foresee the consequences of their conduct (i.e. non-disclosure). Through a critical case law analysis Heinze illustrates that an inconsistent classification of the nature of the ICC-process has – via the application of a contextual interpretation – a direct impact on decisions about concrete procedural issues, of which disclosure is the most prominent example. For this very reason Heinze re-classifies the ICC-process and concludes that the ICC is a hierarchically structured international organisation with a »policy-implementing« form of procedure, that nevertheless contains adversarial elements usually found in a system of coordinate authority with a »conflict-solving« form of justice. This classification serves as a »general jurisprudence« in its technical sense, which enables the Judges to conduct a coherent contextual interpretation. The book thereby establishes a connection between legal theory, philosophy, sociology and comparative law on the one hand and a highly relevant procedural question on the other hand.

Introduction : the growing international relevance of Mediterranean politics / Richard Gillespie and Frederick Volpi -- The historical construction of the Mediterranean / Dominic Fenech and Michelle Pace -- Historical/geopolitical turning points in the modern Mediterranean : cold war, post cold-war and Arab Spring / Francesco Cavatorta -- Regionalism and the Mediterranean : long history, odd partners / Federica Bicchi -- Securing the Mediterranean, inventing the "Middle East" / Pinar Bilgin -- From imperialism to failed liberal peace : how Europe contributed to MENA's failing states system and how MENA blowback threatens Europe / Raymond Hinnebusch -- A new era in Euro-Mediterranean relations / Richard Youngs -- EU member states' representation and positioning and the north-south divide in Euro-Mediterranean affairs / Tobias Schumacher -- The north-south divide : southern perceptions of the Mediterranean / Yahia Zoubir -- US outlook on the Mediterranean / Katerina Dalacoura -- Israeli regional perspectives and the Mediterranean / Daniela Huber -- Turkish regional perspectives and the Mediterranean / Bill Park -- The Mediterranean observes the world, the world observes the Mediterranean : conflict and peace in the Mediterranean / Stephan Stetter -- Military and politics in the Mediterranean / Aurel Croissant and Tanja Eschenauer -- Stalled conflicts in the Mediterranean / Neophytos Loizides -- Insurgencies, terrorism, and political violence in the Mediterranean region / Krista E. Wiegand -- Do regional organizations contribute to security? : perspectives on Euro-Mediterranean cooperation / Niklas Bremberg -- Regime resilience and the Arab uprisings in the Southern Mediterranean : four emerging approaches for explaining authoritarian persistence / Matt Buehler and Amnah Ibraheem -- Beyond state and market : developmental strategies in the Arab world / Amr Adly -- The political economy of energy in the Mediterranean / Gonzalo Escribano -- Globalization and the Mediterranean / Patrick Holden -- Minding development gaps in EU Mediterranean policies : a variegated neo-liberalization thesis? / Karim Knio -- Climate change, environmental degradation and renewable energy / Michael Mason -- Politics and tourism in the Mediterranean region / Raoul Bianchi and Tom Selwyn -- Debates on civil society in the Mediterranean / Benoit Challand -- Transnational advocacy networks and human rights activism / Laura Feliu -- Islamist movements in the Mediterranean : modernist Islam, Islamism, and Salafism / Roel Meijer -- Women's movements within Euro-Mediterranean politics : necessity of going beyond "the Arab woman" / Ali Bilgic -- Youth activism and protest around the Mediterranean / Emma C. Murphy -- New media, activism, and the transformative Arab political landscape / Sahar Khamis -- Digital communications and social networks : co-evolution of digital activism and repression during the Arab uprisings / Ben Wagner -- Mediterranean migrants and refugees : historical and political continuities and discontinuities / Sarah Wolff and Leila Hadj-Abdou -- Intercultural dialogue across the Mediterranean troubled waters : challenges to the Anna Lindh Foundation / Stefania Panebianco.

"Every day in the United States, children and adolescents are victims of commercial sexual exploitation and sex trafficking. These are not only illegal activities, but also forms of violence and abuse that result in immediate and long-term physical, mental, and emotional harm to victims and survivors. In 2013, the Institute of Medicine/National Research Council released the report Confronting Commercial Sexual Exploitation and Sex Trafficking of Minors in the United States. The report found that the United States is in the very early stages of recognizing, understanding, and developing solutions for these crimes. Health care professionals need to be able to recognize past, ongoing, or potential victimization by commercial sexual exploitation and sex trafficking among the youth in their care. Failure to do so increases the possibility that those at risk may become victims, and victims may miss opportunities for assistance and remain vulnerable to further exploitation and abuse. This Guide for the Health Care Sector provides a summary of information from the original report that is most relevant to individuals who and settings that see children and adolescents for prevention and treatment of injury, illness, and disease. This includes physicians, nurses, advanced practice nurses, physician assistants, mental health professionals, and dentists who practice in settings such as emergency departments, urgent care, primary care clinics, adolescent medicine clinics, school clinics, shelters, community health centers, and dental clinics among others. This guide includes definitions of key terms and an overview of risk factors and consequences; barriers to identifying victims and survivors as well as opportunities for overcoming these barriers; examples of current practices in the health care sector; and recommendations aimed at identifying, preventing, and responding to these crimes."--Publisher's description