Amy Farrell

About

Amy Farrell is a professor of criminology and criminal justice at Northeastern University and serves as the director of the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice. She is also the co-director of the Violence and Justice Research Laboratory within the Institute on Race and Justice at Northeastern. She joined the faculty in 2008, having previously served as the assistant director of the Institute on Race and Justice and a faculty researcher at Northeastern. Her research focuses on understanding and describing how the criminal justice system administers justice, with particular attention to how it responds to crimes such as human trafficking. Farrell has studied and published on how law enforcement agencies identify, investigate, and prosecute human trafficking cases, and how changes in laws impact these processes. She has also examined labor trafficking victimization among U.S. citizens and foreign nationals, as well as public perceptions and policy responses to human trafficking. Additionally, Farrell has investigated racial and gender representation in court workgroups, jury outcomes, and factors influencing acquittals. She has co-authored books on criminal justice issues and has been recognized with awards such as the NIJ’s W.E.B. DuBois Fellowship and the American Society Criminology Mentor of the Year.

Research topics

• Political Science
• Sociology
• Psychology
• Biochemistry
• Biology
• Medicine
• Cell biology
• Social psychology
• Developmental psychology
• Criminology

Selected publications

• Addressing Hate Crime in the 21st Century: Trends, Threats, and Opportunities for Intervention

  Annual Review of Criminology · 2022 · 52 citations

  1st authorCorresponding

  Hate crimes, often referred to as bias-motivated crimes, have garnered greater public attention and concern as political rhetoric in the United States and internationally has promoted the exclusion of people based on their group identity. This review examines what we know about the trends in hate crime behavior and the legal responses to this problem across four main domains. First, we describe the legal framework and recent attempts to expand hate crime protections beyond historically disenfran…

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• Exposure to Multiple Forms of Bias Victimization on Youth and Young Adults: Relationships with Trauma Symptomatology and Social Support

  Journal of Youth and Adolescence · 2020 · 20 citations

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• Prevalence of Neurodevelopmental, Mental, and Behavioral Disorders in a Sample of U.S. Commercially Sexually Exploited Youth, and Associations with Health and Health Care Access

  Journal of Human Trafficking · 2024-11-17 · 4 citations

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• The Half-Built Road: Exploring the Impediments to Justice for Victims of Labor Trafficking

  Journal of Human Trafficking · 2024-02-28 · 4 citations

  articleOpen access

  The exploitation of people in forced labor is a significant human rights violation and a threat to community safety. Despite enhanced efforts to identify and prosecute labor trafficking perpetrators in the U.S. relatively few traffickers have been held accountable. Legal advocates and providers increasingly pursue civil litigation, immigration relief, and other roads to meet victims' needs and achieve justice. Less understood are the specific legal, structural, and cultural barriers that make th…

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• Understanding the Trafficking of Children for the Purposes of Labor in the United States

  CrimRxiv · 2024-04-19 · 4 citations

  preprintOpen access1st authorCorresponding

  The exploitation of children who are working in the United States is a critical social issue. While recent public attention has been directed toward labor abuses of migrant children, there is strong evidence that labor trafficking impacts a wide range of children who experience individual and structural vulnerabilities. Despite public concern about the exploitation and labor trafficking of children, we lack detailed information about what young people are exploited for labor, the contexts under…

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Frequent coauthors

• Jack McDevitt

  34 shared

• Rosalie C. Sears

  Oregon Health & Science University

  25 shared

• Jonathan Bones

  University College Dublin

  19 shared

• Daniel Givelber

  18 shared

• Ieke de Vries

  17 shared

• Colin J. Daniel

  University of Portland

  17 shared

• Brittany L. Allen-Petersen

  Purdue University West Lafayette

  15 shared

• Dale J. Christensen

  13 shared

Labs

• Northeastern University School of Criminology and Criminal JusticePI

Education

• Ph.D., sociology

  North Carolina State University

Awards & honors

• NIJ’s W.E.B. Du Bois Fellowship (2014)
• National Institute of Justice’s W.E.B. Du Bois Fellowship (2…
• NIJ’s Graduate Research Fellowship (1999)
• American Society Criminology Mentor of the Year (2014)
• Robert Sheehan Excellence in Teaching Award (2016)

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