Details

Series

• ICPSR (Series) ; 38328. [More in this series]
• ICPSR 38328

Restrictions note

Use of these data is restricted to Princeton University students, faculty, and staff for non-commercial statistical analysis and research purposes only.

Summary note

The purpose of the study was twofold: 1) To examine whether there are indicators that can differentiate escort ads related to sex trafficking from ads for consensual, non-trafficking sex work, and 2) if so, to determine which indicators are most likely to predict whether the ad represents a trafficking case.

Type of data

• administrative records data
• event/transaction data
• text

Time and place of event

Data collected 2018 through 2021

Funding information

Sponsored by United States Department of Justice. Office of Justice Programs. National Institute of Justice 2017-MU-CX-0005

Methodology note

• Closed sex trafficking cases investigated in study sites.
• Online escort ads associated with closed sex trafficking cases.
• Criminal investigators and other law enforcement, victim advocates, sex trafficking survivors, and consensual (non-trafficked) sex workers.

Contents

• Study-Level Files
• Case-level Quantitative Data
• Ad-level Quantitative Data

Provenance

2024-01-30 ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection: Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.

Cite as

Lugo-Graulich, Kristina. Indicators of Sex Trafficking in Online Escort Ads, 7 U.S. states, 2013-2020. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2024-01-30. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR38328.v1

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