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Explaining Tolerance of Violence

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Understanding the personal and contextual circumstances that acculturate individuals into accepting violence in the household sheds additional light on (a) where anti-trafficking enforcement is more likely to occur and (b) where it is more effective. These assumptions are tested in a multilevel framework in this chapter.

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Ravlik, M. (2020). Explaining Tolerance of Violence. In: The Fight against Human Trafficking. Palgrave Pivot, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33204-4_7

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