Police Practice and Research
Volume 18, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 245-258
Florida’s task force approach to combat human trafficking: an analysis of county-level data (Article)
Huff-Corzine L.* ,
Sacra S.A. ,
Corzine J. ,
Rados R.
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Department of Sociology, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, United States
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Department of Sociology, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, United States
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Department of Sociology, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, United States
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Department of Sociology, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, United States, Seminole County Sheriff’s Office, Sanford, FL, United States
Abstract
Since emerging in the USA during the 1990s, the multi-agency task force has become the preferred organizational structure for enforcing human trafficking laws and providing assistance to victims. These task forces often work across county lines and typically include law enforcement agencies, as well as social service and non-governmental organizations. The effect of collaborations with other types of agencies on law enforcement’s human trafficking arrests is unknown. County-level arrest data for human trafficking first became available through the Federal Bureau of Investigation in 2014. In this paper, we present findings from county-level analyses with human trafficking arrests in the State of Florida as the dependent variable. Independent variables include the presence of a task force, sociodemographic characteristics, tourism measures, and police officers per capita. The strongest predictor of human trafficking arrests is the presence of a task force. © 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
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https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85012255942&doi=10.1080%2f15614263.2017.1291567&partnerID=40&md5=6b8b5a4e06f846147198d39dd41fc90e
DOI: 10.1080/15614263.2017.1291567
ISSN: 15614263
Cited by: 3
Original Language: English