RT Article
T1 Measuring labor trafficking: a research note
JF Crime, law and social change
VO 58
IS 4
SP 469
OP 482
A1 Zhang, Sheldon X.
LA English
YR 2012
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1854322915
AB This paper reviews major challenges in the conceptual clarification and empirical inquiry of labor trafficking. Much of current literature on human trafficking in the U.S. has focused on the sexual exploitation of women and children. As a result, government funding has mostly gone to law enforcement agencies and rescue agencies home and abroad to find these victims. International organizations believe labor trafficking is perhaps far more prevalent than sex trafficking. But empirical research on labor trafficking remains rare. Wild claims have instead taken place of rigorous empirical research in advocacy activities and policy making. This paper calls for greater efforts on primary data collection that measures the incidence and prevalence of labor trafficking activities in the U.S. Campaigns against human trafficking cannot be sustained or even remain credible without sound empirical research.
NO Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 480-482
K1 Human Trafficking
K1 International Labor Organization
K1 Primary Data Collection
K1 Sexual Exploitation
K1 Trafficking Victim
DO 10.1007/s10611-012-9393-y