Dorthy Stucky Halley became the first Tony Jurich Lecture on Social Justice when she addressed a crowd of students, faculty and community members on domestic violence and human trafficking on March 12 in the K-State Union.
Halley, who helped develop and was the first coordinator of the Human Trafficking Advisory Board for the Kansas attorney general, warned against stereotyping domestic violence offenders who vary greatly in the type of violence they perpetrate and motives behind their aggression. She listed major motives as entitlement, survival and sadistic.
She also dispelled stereotypes about human traffic victims.
In Kansas, people are often trafficked by a family member, she said. More than 350 victims of human trafficking in Kansas were reported to the state attorney general’s office during fiscal 2014. In at least a third of the cases, the trafficker was the spouse or partner, Halley said.
She is director of victim services for the Kansas attorney general and a licensed master social worker.
Her lecture was presented by the marriage and family therapy program, which is offered by the School of Family Studies and Human Services in Kansas State University’s College of Human Ecology.
