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Fighting Slavery through Statistics: A Discussion of Five Promising Methods to Estimate Prevalence in the United States

Davina P. DurganaView further author information
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Paul L. ZadorView further author information
Pages 50-53 | Published online: 03 Oct 2017

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  • Barrick, K., Lattimore, P. K., Pitts, W. J., and Zhang, S. X. 2014. When farmworkers and advocates see trafficking but law enforcement does not: Challenges in identifying labor trafficking in North Carolina. Crime, Law and Social Change 61(2): pp.205–214.
  • Busch-Armendariz, N. B., Nale, N. L, Kammer-Kerwick, M., Kellison, J. B., Torres, M. I. M., Cook-Heffron, L., and Nehme, J. 2016. Human Trafficking by the Numbers: Initial Benchmarks of Prevalence & Economic Impact in Texas. Austin, TX: Institute on Domestic Violence & Sexual Assault, University of Texas at Austin.
  • Durgana, D. 2017. Fighting Slavery Through Statistics: Five Promising Methods to Estimate Prevalence. DEVEX. http://bit.ly/2nHAtzp.
  • Heckathorn, D. D. 2002. Respondent-Driven Sampling II: Deriving Valid Population Estimates from Chain-Referral Samples of Hidden Populations. Social Problems.
  • Martin, H. M., and Smith, L. M. 2015. Historical overview and demographic analysis of human trafficking in the USA. International Journal of Public Law and Policy 5(3). www.inderscienceonline.com/toc/ijplap/5/3.
  • van Dijk, J. J. M., and van der Heijden, P. G. M. 2016. Multiple Systems Estimation for estimating the number of victims of human trafficking across the world, Research Brief. Vienna, Austria: UNODC. http://bit.ly/2vk7ypg.
  • Waldron, S. 2017. Experts Leverage Statistical Methods to Investigate Human Trafficking. American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). http://bit.ly/2eZHfhi.
  • United Against Slavery (UAS). www.unitedagainstslavery.org.
  • Zhang, S. X. 2012. Looking for a hidden population: Trafficking of migrant laborers in San Diego County. Final Report submitted to the National Institute of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice. www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/240223.pdf.

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