Understanding the Scope, Scale, and Perpetration of Human Trafficking in the U.S.

Session Submission Type: Complete Thematic Panel

Abstract

This panel will feature recent and ongoing research funded by the U.S. Department of Justice's National Institute of Justice to better understand the extent to which human trafficking occurs in the U.S., how perpetrators and facilitators are organized and operate, community indicators of trafficking and exploitation, and the size and structure of the U.S. commercial sex economy. Researchers will also discuss developments in methodology and subject recruitments strategies, as well as lessons learned from conducting interviews with convicted traffickers and pimps.

Sub Unit

• Area II. Types of Offending and Victimization / 19. Sex Work/Prostitution and Human Trafficking

Individual Presentations

• Estimating the Size and Structure of the Unlawful Commercial Sex Economy in Eight U.S. Cities - Meredith Dank, Urban Institute

• Understanding Human Trafficking Organizations and Facilitators: Preliminary Results from Research on Convicted Traffickers - Michael Shively, Abt Associates, Inc.

• Correlates of Labor Trafficking among Migrant Farmworkers - Pamela K. Lattimore, RTI International

Chair

• Maureen Quinn McGough, National Institute of Justice