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Jaime Terwiliger

Sex Trafficking and it’s Pathways 

Sex trafficking occurs all over the world including in the United States where people would least expect it. This paper focuses on different pathways that may lead young women into being involved with sex trafficking. Some different ways girls can be set up into sex trafficking may be by a family member, boyfriend, gangs, from seeing advertisements, by being kidnapped, or just for survival. People experiencing this could be raped, beaten, abused physically or mentally, and put through hard intense labor. This paper also focuses not just on the victims, but the perpetrator as well. It mentions the different ways pimps lure young girls in, where the most common places pimps traffic girls, and focuses on who exactly the pimps are and why they are trafficking girls. This paper will also describe my personal experience and what I directly witnessed on a mission’s trip to Cambodia in 2015. Further, my internship in Eugene Oregon brought me into direct contact with young women who had been trafficked recently. This paper concludes with what people can do to help to bring awareness to others about the subject, as well as protect young girls, and fight against the perpetrator.

IDS 499, Capstone

Mick Bollenbaugh

L204

11:00 – 11:30 AM

Hayley Leno & Jaime Terwilliger

Two Truths and a Lie: Deception Detection Based on Mode of Communication

Lies can often be exchanged through text based communication and face to face communication. The following study was conducted to determine if lies were detected more often through face-to-face or text-based communication and whether not it mattered if the participant knew the researcher well. The first hypothesis was that when the participant does not know the deceiver, deception detection will succeed more often through text-only communication than face-to-face communication. The second hypothesis was that when the participant does know the deceiver well, successful deception detection will be equally likely in face-to-face and text-only communication. Twenty-seven participants from Northwest Christian University participated in a game of Two Truths and a Lie, once face-to-face and once over text message. The results show that there was not a significant difference between face-to-face detection and the text based detection. Also, in either medium, there was a not significant difference in lie detection between participants who knew the researcher well, or did not know the researcher well.

COMM 460 Technology, Change and Communication

Doyle Srader

Banquet Room

1 – 3 PM