Operations research and analytics to combat human trafficking: A systematic review of academic literature

GL Dimas, RA Konrad, K Lee Maass, AC Trapp - PloS one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Human trafficking is a widespread and compound social, economic, and human rights issue
occurring in every region of the world. While there have been an increasing number of anti …

Progress and challenges in human trafficking research: two decades after the Palermo protocol

SX Zhang - Journal of human trafficking, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
The research community on human trafficking has grown significantly in the past two
decades, and consequently produced a large body of literature. There is much to celebrate …

The trafficking continuum: Service providers' perspectives on vulnerability, exploitation, and trafficking

C Schwarz, D Alvord, D Daley, M Ramaswamy… - Affilia, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Much of the research on human trafficking focuses on the prosecution of traffickers and
protection of survivors after the crime has occurred. Less is known about the social …

What is the impact of human trafficking on the biopsychosocial health of victims: a systematic review

O García-Vázquez, C Meneses-Falcón - Journal of immigrant and minority …, 2024 - Springer
The health consequences of human trafficking have been poorly researched compared to
other aspects of this crime. A systematic review was carried out to study health from a …

A scoping review of resilience in survivors of human trafficking

L Knight, Y Xin, C Mengo - Trauma, violence, & abuse, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Resilience is critical among survivors of trafficking as they are mostly vulnerable populations
who face multiple adversities before, during, and after trafficking. However, resilience in …

Unmasking human trafficking risk in commercial sex supply chains with machine learning

P Ramchandani, H Bastani, E Wyatt - Available at SSRN 3866259, 2021 - papers.ssrn.com
The covert nature of sex trafficking provides a significant barrier to generating large-scale,
data-driven insights to inform law enforcement, policy and social work. We leverage massive …

Challenges to supporting domestically sex trafficked persons: In-depth interviews with service providers

F Recknor, R Mason, D Jacobson… - Journal of Human …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Domestic sex trafficking is an emergent area of study with problematic gaps in our
understanding of the challenges that inhibit client recovery. As social service providers are …

Disentangling human trafficking types and the identification of pathways to forced labor and sex: an explainable analytics approach

E Eryarsoy, K Topuz, C Demiroglu - Annals of Operations Research, 2024 - Springer
Terms such as human trafficking and modern-day slavery are ephemeral but reflect
manifestations of oppression, servitude, and captivity that perpetually have threatened the …

A review of prevalence estimation methods for human trafficking populations

E Schroeder, TG Edgemon, L Aletraris… - Public Health …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Human trafficking has long-lasting implications for the well-being of trafficked people,
families, and affected communities. Prevention and intervention efforts, however, have been …

Using preventive, protection, prosecution and partnership framework to explore the successes and constraints of social work to address sex trafficking in Edo, Nigeria

P Agwu, S Levy, U Okoye - The British Journal of Social Work, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Social work features in human trafficking discourses as a remedial approach, but the
profession's potentials in Nigeria have not been fully realised. Thus, our research seeks to …