Children, Gender, and Sexual Exploitation: A Quantitative Analysis of Administrative Data

Cockbain, Ella; Ashby, Matthew P.J.; Brayley-Morris, Helen

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“…Given the large dataset, unless any such clustering was very prevalent it is unlikely to have affected the validity of the findings. Finally, as is common when working with secondary data collected for non-research purposes (see, e.g., [14,15]), we were naturally constrained by the contents, categories and completeness of the original data and any other biases (e.g self report bias) they may have contained. We cannot rule out the existence of confounding variables not captured in our dataset.…”

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Human trafficking for sex, labour and domestic servitude: how do key trafficking types compare and what are their predictors?

Cockbain

Bowers

2019

Crime Law Soc Change

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Combatting trafficking in human beings is a well-established social policy and crime prevention priority for the twenty-first Century. Human trafficking, as defined in international law, can occur for diverse exploitative purposes. Yet, different forms of trafficking are routinely conflated in research, policy and interventions. Most of the attention to date has been on sex trafficking of women and girls, leaving male victims and other trafficking types comparatively overlooked. In this study, we disentangle differences between key trafficking types using rare individual-level data from the United Kingdom's central system for identifying trafficking victims. For a sample of 2630 confirmed victims, we compare those trafficked for sex, domestic servitude and other labour across variables relating to victim demographics, the trafficking process and official responses. Having established significant and substantial differences at bivariate level, we use multinomial logistic regression to identify predictors of trafficking type. Overall, our results underline the complexity and diversity of human trafficking and warn against conflating different types. Within a holistic counter-trafficking framework, a more disaggregated and nuanced approach to analysis and intervention is vital in ensuring more finely-targeted responses. This original study has clear lessons for research, policy and practice.

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Human trafficking for sex, labour and domestic servitude: how do key trafficking types compare and what are their predictors?

Cockbain

Bowers

2019

Crime Law Soc Change

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“…Using administrative data not collected for research purposes meant much time had to be spent on pre-processing the data (cleaning, re-coding etc.) to get them in a useable format for analysis and even then the volume of missing data restricted what could be done with them (for further discussion of similar challenges in a different context, see (Cockbain et al 2016)).…”

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Using Law Enforcement Data in Trafficking Research

Cockbain

Bowers

Vernon³

2019

The Palgrave International Handbook of Human Trafficking

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Law enforcement data are a promising and largely untapped resource for academic research into human trafficking. Better use of such data can help inform and expand an evidence-based approach to counter-trafficking policy and practice. Authored by both academics and a senior law enforcement practitioner, this chapter provides rare and important insights into the theoretical, practical, legal and ethical considerations around using law enforcement data in human trafficking research. Its discussions should prove useful to researchers, practitioners and policy-makers interested in

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“…48 As a result of psychological manipulation, victims may remain with their exploiters for long periods without 45 See HMICRFRS, n 10 above, 60. attempting to escape or alert the authorities, and the defence may present such behaviour as evidence that no exploitation has occurred. 49 Following an effective identification system, victims' human rights should be protected 50 and they should be entitled to support and protectives measure(s) provided by the state. Supporting victims is a challenging task particularly during the recovery and reflection period.…”

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Human Trafficking, Victims’ Rights and Fair Trials

Ward

Fouladvand

2018

The Journal of Criminal Law

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Cases of human trafficking are known to be difficult to prosecute. In this article we identify several issues in the law of evidence that may contribute to these difficulties. We argue for the victims' rights as an important factor in evidential decisions, coupled with an insistence that such rights cannot trump the defendant's right to a fair trial. Restrictions on evidence of a witness's bad character or sexual history should not be interpreted in such a way as to prevent the defence from introducing evidence, or asking questions, that are of substantial probative value, even if they are potentially distressing to witnesses; but such evidence and questioning should be limited to what is necessary for a fair trial. The protection of victims and witnesses may also justify a relatively flexible approach to the admission of hearsay evidence, which avoids prejudging the truth of a witness's evidence in order to establish that s/he is in fear.

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Children, Gender, and Sexual Exploitation: A Quantitative Analysis of Administrative Data

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Human trafficking for sex, labour and domestic servitude: how do key trafficking types compare and what are their predictors?

Human trafficking for sex, labour and domestic servitude: how do key trafficking types compare and what are their predictors?

Using Law Enforcement Data in Trafficking Research

Human Trafficking, Victims’ Rights and Fair Trials

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