RT Article
T1 Hot Spots of Commercial Sex Activities in New York City Neighborhoods: Lessons Learned
JF Crime & delinquency
VO 70
IS 11
SP 2932
OP 2957
A1 Suh, Brittany
A2 Natarajan, Mangai 1956-
LA English
YR 2024
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1900828227
AB Understanding the spatial distribution of commercial sex activities (CSA) in urban environments is important in addressing the harms against sex workers and identifying sex trafficking operations. Guided by crime pattern theory, using Census data and New York Police Department (NYPD) prostitution-related arrests data (N = 29,075) from 2010 to 2019, this study examines the “hot spots” of CSA in New York City. Local Spatial Autocorrelation Analysis (LISA) identified distinctive spatial clusters of CSA, whereas logistic regression explained their significant congregation in immigrant and racial-ethnic enclaves. The heterogeneity of clusters by boroughs portrays the convergence of activity space of sex workers, patrons, and sex business opportunities reflecting the high-demand locations of CSA and human trafficking in NYC.
K1 Human Trafficking
K1 racial-ethnic enclaves
K1 spatial clusters
K1 Crime Pattern Theory
K1 commercial sex activities
DO 10.1177/00111287221134626