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Victimization
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Repeat Victimization, Polyvictimization
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Risk factors for the sexual exploitation of minors
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Human trafficking victimizations
Socioecological contexts
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Spatial and Social Context of Crime, Deviancy, and Victimization
- Contextualizing human trafficking
Crime Responses
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Public Concerns about Human Trafficking
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Policing Human Trafficking
Featured Publications. See for most recent updates: Google Scholar Profile
Understanding Human Trafficking/Exploitation
Governing through indicators: structural biases and empirical challenges in indicator-based approaches to human trafficking research and policy (forthcoming in 2023)
From responding to uncertainties and ambiguities to more constructive and inclusive debates on commercial sex and sex trafficking (2023)
Examining the geography of illicit massage businesses hosting commercial sex and sex trafficking in the United States: The role of census tract and city-level factors (2022)
Identifying online risk markers of hard-to-observe crimes through semi-inductive triangulation: The aase of human trafficking in the United States (2022)
Understanding factors associated with re-referral of youth for commercial sexual exploitation (2021)
The impact of childhood abuse on the commercial sexual exploitation of youth: A systematic review and meta-analysis (2020).
Enhancing the identification of commercial sexual exploitation among a population of high-risk youths using predictive regularization models (2020)
Measuring the nature and prevalence of human trafficking (2020)
Crime frames and gender differences in the activation of crime concern and crime responses (2020)
It's your business: The role of the private sector in human trafficking (2019)
Sex Work (2019)
Connected to crime: An exploration of the nesting of labour trafficking and exploitation in legitimate markets (2018)
Labor Trafficking Victimizations: Repeat Victimization and Polyvictimization (2017)
Estimating the size of hard-to-reach populations using capture-recapture methodology, with a discussion of the International Labour Organization's global estimate of forced labour (2015)
Extremely wanted: Human trafficking statistics - what to do with the hodgepodge of numbers? (2015)
Responding to Human Trafficking/Exploitation
Explaining the use of traditional law enforcement responses to human trafficking concerns in illicit massage businesses (2022)
Policing labor trafficking in the United States (2020)
Failing victims? Challenges of the police response to human trafficking (2019)
Network processes
A dyadic analysis of social network stability before and after incarceration
A network approach to examine neighborhood interdependence through the target selection of repeat buyers of commercial sex in the United States
A network approach to examining co-occurring victimization and perpetration in dating abuse among a nationally representative sample of US adolescents (2022)
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