Searching for Sex Trafficking Victims: Using a Novel Link-Tracing Method Among Commercial Sex Workers in Muzaffarpur, India

Zhang, Sheldon X.; Dank, Meredith

doi:10.1177/0011128719890265

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“…Using large samples better to understand different trafficking types has considerable potential for informing the design, delivery and prioritisation of interventions. Primary research, which is often under-funded, has much to offer here (see [82]). Yet, there is also considerable scope to optimise data already collected by official agencies, NGOs and others [19].…”

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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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“…Recent innovations have resulted in a novel approach known as Vincent Link Tracing Sampling (VLTS), 41,42 which uses a traditional RDS recruitment process with a conventional sampling design, such as simple random sampling. Unlike RDS, VLTS uses a generously sized representative initial sample and only a few waves of sampling, so that it samples wide rather than deep to maximize the number of entry points.…”

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A Review of Prevalence Estimation Methods for Human Trafficking Populations

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Human trafficking has long-lasting implications for the well-being of trafficked people, families, and affected communities. Prevention and intervention efforts, however, have been stymied by a lack of information on the scale and scope of the problem. Because trafficked people are mostly hidden from view, traditional methods of establishing prevalence can be prohibitively expensive in the recruitment, participation, and retention of survey participants. Also, trafficked people are not randomly distributed in the general population. Researchers have therefore begun to apply methods previously used in public health research and other fields on hard-to-reach populations to measure the prevalence of human trafficking. In this topical review, we examine how these prevalence methods used for hard-to-reach populations can be used to measure the prevalence of human trafficking. These methods include network-based approaches, such as respondent-driven sampling and the network scale-up method, and venue-based methods. Respondent-driven sampling is useful, for example, when little information about the trafficked population has been produced and when an adequate sampling frame does not exist. The network scale-up method is unique in that it does not target the hidden population directly. The implications of our work internationally include the need for documenting and validating the various prevalence estimation methods in the United States in a more robust way than was done in existing efforts. In providing this roadmap for estimating the prevalence of human trafficking, our overarching goal is to promote the equitable treatment and overall well-being of the socially disadvantaged populations who disproportionately experience human trafficking.

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“…22 Using methods commonly employed by public health researchers to estimate hidden populations, such as injection drug users and people living with HIV/AIDS, has been suggested as a way to produce more reliable estimates of the size and scope of human trafficking. 23 Studies have generated localized or national estimates of trafficked people that relied on such methods; for example, snowball sampling, 24 respondent-driven sampling, 25 and multiple systems estimation. 26…”

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Community Health Centers and Sentinel Surveillance of Human Trafficking in the United States

Gallo¹,

Thinyane²,

Teufel

2022

Public Health Rep

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Human trafficking is increasingly understood as a global public health concern that harms individuals, families, and communities by directly and indirectly causing a multitude of adverse physical and mental health outcomes. 1 Intersecting with a complex range of social determinants of health (eg, income, migration status, social exclusion), 2 human trafficking manifests itself through various forms of commercial sexual exploitation and forced labor. Researchers, policy makers, and survivors have promoted reframing human trafficking, which is traditionally perceived as a law enforcement issue, as a public health issue. 3 The US public health community has broadly responded with high levels of engagement, including delineating research priorities, 4 developing prevention strategies, 5 and advocating for policy changes. 6

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Searching for Sex Trafficking Victims: Using a Novel Link-Tracing Method Among Commercial Sex Workers in Muzaffarpur, India

Cited by 7 publications

References 42 publications

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?

A Review of Prevalence Estimation Methods for Human Trafficking Populations

Community Health Centers and Sentinel Surveillance of Human Trafficking in the United States

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