RT Article
T1 Women trafficking networks: Structure and stages of women trafficking in five Dutch small-scale networks
JF European journal of criminology
VO 20
IS 4
SP 1506
OP 1528
A1 Diviák, Tomáš
A2 Dijkstra, Jan Kornelis
A2 van der Wijk, Fenna
A2 Oosting, Indra
A2 Wolters, Gerard
LA English
YR 2023
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1894805445
AB In this study, we investigated the relation between the different stages of women trafficking (i.e. recruitment, entrance, accommodation, labor, and finance) and the structure of five criminal networks involved in women trafficking in the Netherlands (Ns ranging from 6 to 15). On the one hand, it could be argued that for efficiency and avoidance of being detected by law enforcement agencies, the network structure might align with the different stages, resulting in a cell-structured network with collaboration between actors within rather than across stages. On the other hand, criminal actors might prefer to collaborate and rely on a few others, whom they trust in order to circumvent the lack of formal opportunities to enforce collaboration and agreements, resulting in a core-periphery network with actors also collaborating across stages. Results indicate that three of the five networks were characterized by a core-periphery structure, whereas the two other networks exhibit a mixture of both a cell-structured and core-periphery network. Furthermore, using an Exponential Random Graph Model (ERGM), we found that actors were likely to form ties with each other in the stages of recruitment, accommodation, and exploitation, but not in the stages of transport and finance.
K1 criminal networks
K1 exponential random graph model
K1 Sex trafficking
K1 Social Network Analysis
K1 women trafficking
DO 10.1177/14773708211053135