Identifying human trafficking indicators in the UK online sex market

This study identifies the presence of human trafficking indicators in a UK-based sample of sex workers who advertise their services online. To this end, we developed a crawling and scraping software that enabled the collection of information from 17, 362 advertisements for female sex workers posted...

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Main Author: Giommoni, Luca (Author)
Contributors: Ikwu, Ruth
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2024
In: Trends in organized crime
Year: 2024, Volume: 27, Issue: 1, Pages: 10-33
Online Access: Volltext (kostenfrei)
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Keywords:
Policing sex markets
Internet sex trafficking
Modern slavery
Human Trafficking

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