Pimping and Banging: Findings from a Study on Gang Involvement in Sex Trafficking Activities in San Diego

• In Event: Male Involvement in Sex Work/Prostitutuion and Sex Trafficking

Abstract

This paper is based on data collected from an ongoing NIJ-funded project, which examines the nature and extent of gang involvement in pimping/domestic sex trafficking in San Diego, California. With a triangulated, mixed-methods approach, we are collecting data from law enforcement, victim services, high schools, and traffickers/facilitators. This paper is based on an analysis of 75 qualitative interviews with pimps/facilitators in local jails and the community. We offer a preliminary typology, depicting gang/gang member roles in pimping/sex trafficking activities.

Authors

• Dana Nurge, San Diego State University

• Ami Carpenter, University of San Diego

• Jamie Gates, Point Loma Nazarene University