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Unconventional Wisdom: Research Shakes Up Assumptions About Sex Trafficking Clues in Online Escort Ads

Date Published

May 8, 2024

Scientific study finds that many widely recognized indicators of trafficking in online escort ads are likely not reliable. Research also produces new practice guide.

Challenging the Dominant Frame: The Moderating Impact of Exposure and Knowledge on Perceptions of Sex Trafficking Victimization

Date Published

2018

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Report (Study/Research), Report (Grant Sponsored), Program/Project Description

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NIJ-Sponsored

The Recursive Relationship Between Substance Abuse, Prostitution, and Incarceration: Voices From a Long-Term Cohort of Women

Date Published

2019

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Report (Study/Research), Report (Grant Sponsored), Program/Project Description

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NIJ-Sponsored

It's a Marathon Not a Race: Exiting the Commercial Sex Trade

Date Published

July 2014

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Report (Study/Research), Report (Grant Sponsored)

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NIJ-Sponsored

Debunking Conventional Wisdom: Using Online Escort Ads in Sex Trafficking Investigations

Date Published

October 2022

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

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NIJ-Sponsored

Explaining the Use of Traditional Law Enforcement Responses to Human Trafficking Concerns in Illicit Massage Businesses

Date Published

April 2022

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NIJ-Sponsored

Organized Crime in the United States: A Review of the Public Record

Date Published

1982

Publication Type

Overview Text

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NIJ

Trafficking in Persons: Summary of Focus Group Discussion

Date Published

2007

Publication Type

Conference Material

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NIJ

NIJ Research Review, Volume 2, Issue 3

Date Published

November 2001

Publication Type

Report (Study/Research)

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NIJ

Sex Trafficking and Substance Use, Identifying High-Priority Needs Within the Criminal Justice System

Date Published

2022

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

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NIJ-Sponsored

Research in Brief: Putting Sex Traffickers Out of Business: Combatting Human Trafficking and Prostitution by Reducing the Demand for Commercial Sex

Date Published

July 2014

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Report (Study/Research), Report (Grant Sponsored), Program/Project Evaluation, Program/Project Description

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NIJ

Street Prostitution

Date Published

August 2001

Publication Type

Instructional Material

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NIJ-Sponsored

Post-implementation of a Safe Harbor law in the US: Review of state administrative data

Date Published

2020

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NIJ-Sponsored

TraffickCam: Explainable Image Matching For Sex Trafficking Investigations

Date Published

2019

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Report (Study/Research), Report (Grant Sponsored), Program/Project Description

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NIJ-Sponsored

On the Relationships Between Commercial Sexual Exploitation/Prostitution, Substance Dependency, and Delinquency in Youthful Offenders

Date Published

November 2014

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Report (Study/Research), Report (Grant Sponsored)

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NIJ-Sponsored

Recidivism Among the Customers of Female Street Prostitutes: Do Intervention Programs Help?

Date Published

2002

Publication Type

Report (Study/Research)

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NIJ-Sponsored

Addicted Women and Crime

Date Published

1987

Publication Type

Survey (Cross-Cultural)

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NIJ-Sponsored

Does Crime Just Move Around the Corner?: A Controlled Study of Spatial Displacement and Diffusion of Crime Control Benefits

Date Published

August 2006

Publication Type

Report (Study/Research)

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NIJ-Sponsored

Prospective Examination of the Path From Child Abuse and Neglect to Illicit Drug Use in Middle Adulthood: The Potential Mediating Role of Four Risk Factors

Date Published

March 2009

Publication Type

Report (Study/Research)

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NIJ-Sponsored

Age-Graded Risks for Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Male and Female Youth

Date Published

June 2014

Publication Type

Report (Grant Sponsored)

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NIJ-Sponsored

Comparison of Drug Use Between Prostitutes and Other Female Arrestees

Date Published

2000

Publication Type

Report (Study/Research)

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NIJ-Sponsored

Female Prostitution, Customers, and Violence

Date Published

February 2004

Publication Type

Literature Review

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NIJ-Sponsored

Prostitution and Fellatio

Date Published

May 2001

Publication Type

Report (Study/Research)

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NIJ-Sponsored

Predictors of Rape Myth Acceptance Among Male Clients of Female Street Prostitutes

Date Published

March 2001

Publication Type

Report (Study/Research)

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NIJ-Sponsored

Ordinary or Peculiar Men? Comparing the Customers of Prostitutes With a Nationally Representative Sample of Men

Date Published

July 2014

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Report (Study/Research), Report (Grant Sponsored)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored