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Brief Report

Policing Sex Trafficking in the ‘Virtual Red-Light District’: A Research Note

by
Xavier L’Hoiry
1,
Alessandro Moretti
2 and
Georgios A. Antonopoulos
3,*
1
Department of Sociological Studies, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TU, UK
2
Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen, 13153 Copenhagen, Denmark
3
Department of Social Sciences, Northumbria University, Newcastle NE1 8ST, UK
*
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Soc. Sci. 2022, 11(8), 319; https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci11080319
Submission received: 7 July 2022 / Revised: 18 July 2022 / Accepted: 19 July 2022 / Published: 22 July 2022
(This article belongs to the Collection Tackling Organized Crime and Human Trafficking)
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Abstract

Working alongside a police force in the United Kingdom, the study briefly presented in this note, sought to create an analytical tool (the Sexual Trafficking Identification Matrix—STIM) with which policing actors could distinguish between Adult Services Website (ASW) profiles posted by independent sex workers and profiles created by traffickers. Distinguishing between these will potentially allow law enforcement agencies to prioritise their investigatory efforts more efficiently.
Keywords: human trafficking; organised crime; sex work; policing human trafficking; organised crime; sex work; policing

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L’Hoiry, X.; Moretti, A.; Antonopoulos, G.A. Policing Sex Trafficking in the ‘Virtual Red-Light District’: A Research Note. Soc. Sci. 2022, 11, 319. https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci11080319

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L’Hoiry X, Moretti A, Antonopoulos GA. Policing Sex Trafficking in the ‘Virtual Red-Light District’: A Research Note. Social Sciences. 2022; 11(8):319. https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci11080319

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L’Hoiry, Xavier, Alessandro Moretti, and Georgios A. Antonopoulos. 2022. "Policing Sex Trafficking in the ‘Virtual Red-Light District’: A Research Note" Social Sciences 11, no. 8: 319. https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci11080319

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L’Hoiry, X., Moretti, A., & Antonopoulos, G. A. (2022). Policing Sex Trafficking in the ‘Virtual Red-Light District’: A Research Note. Social Sciences, 11(8), 319. https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci11080319

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