Policing labor trafficking in the United States

A Farrell, K Bright, I de Vries, R Pfeffer… - Trends in Organized …, 2020 - Springer
Despite new mandates to identify and respond to labor trafficking crimes, US law
enforcement struggles to integrate labor trafficking enforcement with traditional policing …

Operations research and analytics to combat human trafficking: A systematic review of academic literature

GL Dimas, RA Konrad, K Lee Maass, AC Trapp - PLoS one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Human trafficking is a widespread and compound social, economic, and human rights issue
occurring in every region of the world. While there have been an increasing number of anti …

Transgender people and human trafficking: Intersectional exclusion of transgender migrants and people of color from anti-trafficking protection in the United States

AE Fehrenbacher, J Musto, H Hoefinger… - Journal of Human …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Transgender (hereafter: trans) people are rarely included in human trafficking research. This
empirical study presents narratives of trans individuals who report experiences consistent …

[HTML][HTML] Screening for human trafficking among homeless young adults

M Chisolm-Straker, J Sze, J Einbond, J White… - Children and Youth …, 2019 - Elsevier
Human trafficking is a public health issue affecting homeless young adults across the United
States; however, screening tools for trafficking specifically for this population are lengthy and …

Measuring the nature and prevalence of human trafficking

A Farrell, I De Vries - The Palgrave international handbook of human …, 2020 - Springer
Interest in measuring the extent of human trafficking victimization has grown as the public
has become more concerned about the problem. In the wake of legislation criminalizing …

How many trafficked people are there in Greater New Orleans? Lessons in measurement

K Bales, LT Murphy, BW Silverman - Journal of Human Trafficking, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
In an effort to develop a model for estimating prevalence in a city or region of the United
States, this study employed Multiple Systems Estimation, a statistical approach that uses …

Spatial patterns of urban sex trafficking

D Mletzko, L Summers, AN Arnio - Journal of Criminal Justice, 2018 - Elsevier
Purpose This study examines the extent of spatial concentration of sex trafficking within an
urban setting. The influence of situational and socio-demographic neighborhood variables …

Measuring sex trafficking: A national-level victimization survey of an at-risk sample

TC Kulig - Justice quarterly, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
The current study administered a self-report survey with behaviorally specific questions to a
stratified sample of non-college educated women, aged 18 to 29, in the general population …

Comparing the risk factors of youth detained for running away or commercial sexual exploitation to more serious youth offenders

CM Cain - American journal of criminal justice, 2023 - Springer
Commercial sexual exploitation (CSE) of minors is a major social justice concern in the US
and youth who run away from their home or placement are at an increased risk of …

Multi-layer data integration technique for combining heterogeneous crime data

S Ahmed, M Gentili, D Sierra-Sosa… - Information Processing & …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Analysis of publicly available human and drug trafficking crime data faces the
challenge of finding a comprehensive dataset that includes a sufficiently large number of …