Policing Sex Trafficking in the ‘Virtual Red-Light District’: A Research Note

Xavier L’Hoiry, Alessandro Moretti and Georgios A. Antonopoulos
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Xavier L’Hoiry: Department of Sociological Studies, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TU, UK
Alessandro Moretti: Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen, 13153 Copenhagen, Denmark
Georgios A. Antonopoulos: Department of Social Sciences, Northumbria University, Newcastle NE1 8ST, UK

Social Sciences, 2022, vol. 11, issue 8, 1-3

Abstract: Working alongside a police force in the United Kingdom, the study briefly presented in this note, sought to create an analytical tool (the Sexual Trafficking Identification Matrix—STIM) with which policing actors could distinguish between Adult Services Website (ASW) profiles posted by independent sex workers and profiles created by traffickers. Distinguishing between these will potentially allow law enforcement agencies to prioritise their investigatory efforts more efficiently.

Keywords: human trafficking; organised crime; sex work; policing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A B N P Y80 Z00 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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