Dr. Deena Graves & Derek Williams 
Mind Games [EPUB ebook] 
Understanding Trafficker Psychological Warfare

Forward

Prologue

PART 1.  DEREK’S CHILDHOOD

1. If These Walls Could Talk

A Former Pimp’s Perspective with Dr. Deena Graves: How Can We Create Change For Our Children? Fatherlessness

2. Road to Nowhere

Perspective: Dependence on Welfare

3. Betrayal of Trust

Perspective: Parental Betrayal

4.  Character Assignation

Perspective: Lying About Biological Parent

5. Name-Dropping

Perspective: Physical Abuse and Domestic Violence

6.  Following in His Footsteps

Perspective: Alcoholism

7.  Lead by Example

Perspective: Behavior Modification Therapy

8.  Happy to Indulge

Perspective: Poverty/Survival Mindset

9. Always On My Mind

Perspective: Heroin and Crime

10. What’s Love Got To Do With It?

Perspective: Juvenile Sex Traffickers

11.  In the Money

Perspective: Stage of Teen Brain Development

12.  The Silence is Deafening 

Perspective: Teens Prone To Putting Self In Danger

13.  The Thrill of the Ride

Perspective: Sex Buyer Violence

14.  Occupational Hazard

Perspective: Sex Buyer Reviews

15.  Creature of a (Drug) Habit

Perspective: Pimp Street Lingo

16.  Worth the Price of Admission

Perspective: Drug Harm Reduction

PART 2. AFTER GRADUATION

17.  College or (Pimping) Career?

Perspective: Youth From Poverty and College

18.  You’re in the Army Now

Perspective: Racism

19.  Nice Try

Perspective: Generational Fatherlessness

20.  Trouble in Paradise

Perspective: Because He Loves Me

PART 3. CAREER PIMP

21.  Who’s the Boss

Perspective: The Pimp’s Bottom

22.  If You Build It, They Will Come

Perspective: Drugs and Victims of Trafficking

23.  Arrested Development

Perspective: Regional Differences In Trafficking

24.  We Are Family

Perspective: The Trafficker’s Family Façade

25.  The Clock is Ticking

Perspective: Traffickers and Violence

26.  Name That Tune

Perspective: Selling the Dream

Chapters 27-34

Appendices

Where Are They Now? An Update On My Family

Notes From Derek’s Wife, Daughter, and Spiritual Father

Pimp Terminology

CSEC Harm Reduction Case Study

CSEC Red Flags and Warning Signs

CSEC Vulnerabilities and Red Flags Traffickers Watch For

Runaway Prevention Toolkit

Acknowledgments

About the Authors

Notes 

For more than a decade, Derek Williams has been working to get pimps, buyers, and their victims out of the game. Derek is passionate about helping people understand how pimps and other predators prey upon our youth, the vulnerabilities they target, how they manipulate and control them once they are under their control, and how they keep them coming back. He speaks from an in-depth knowledge and understanding of how they do this after first selling his girlfriend when he was 16 and she was 14. From there, he spent 32 years as a pimp, trafficking more than 150 people in all 50 states, Canada, and Europe. He left the game after a life-changing experience. He comprehends, acknowledges, and takes ownership of the predator he was without any excuses. His deep remorse for the hurt and pain he caused so many led him to dedicate his life to getting people out and educating others about the horrors and realities of what traffickers do and how they do it. Derek puts it this way: ‘By unpacking my story, I hope to give you strategies to combat the hopelessness that holds many of our children captive, making them easy prey for a skilled predator or an incubator for a beast in the making. While I can never make retribution for all the lives I ravaged, I long to prevent the destruction of more of our children.’He also is passionate about teaching professionals, first responders, and caregivers how to keep our youth off the path of becoming recruiters or traffickers.