Women and Criminal Justice
Volume 20, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 89-104

Pimp control and violence: Domestic sex trafficking of Chicago women and girls (Article)

Raphael J.* , Reichert J.A. , Powers M.
  • a Schiller, DuCanto and Fleck Family Law Center, DePaul University College of Law, 25 E. Jackson Boulevard, Chicago, IL 60604-2219, United States
  • b Research and Analysis Unit, Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority, Chicago, IL, United States
  • c Research and Analysis Unit, Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority, Chicago, IL, United States

Abstract

The present study examines the violence and change in violence experienced by domestically sex trafficked women from their pimps since their recruitment. A total of 100 women who currently had a pimp were interviewed, and 71 indicated that they had been recruited into prostitution, many under conditions meeting the federal definition of trafficking. Violence and coercive control were measured at 2 different points for each woman and compared separately and together. On average, violence had increased since recruitment, and those women who experienced more forms of coercive control generally experienced higher levels of violence from their pimps. The majority of women experienced violence and coercion, thereby meeting federal sex trafficking definitions. © Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.

Author Keywords

sex trafficking Sex trade Women Control violence recruitment Prostitution Human trafficking pimp Abuse Coercion Trafficking

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Link
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-77951260131&doi=10.1080%2f08974451003641065&partnerID=40&md5=016c716f5a8bd8b844f1afd015d1c41c
DOI: 10.1080/08974451003641065
ISSN: 08974454
Cited by: 63
Original Language: English