NCJ Number
230965
Journal
Women & Criminal Justice Volume: 20 Issue: 1-2 Dated: January-June 2010 Pages: 89-104
Date Published
January 2010
Length
16 pages
Annotation
The present study examines the violence and change in violence experienced by domestically sex trafficked women from their pimps since their recruitment.
Abstract
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 two 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. Tables, figure, and references (Published Abstract)