Pimp Control and Violence: Domestic Sex Trafficking of Chicago Women and Girls

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 condit...

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Published in:	Women & criminal justice Vol. 20; no. 1-2; pp. 89 - 104
Main Authors:	Raphael, Jody, Reichert, Jessica Ashley, Powers, Mark
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	London Taylor & Francis Group 01-01-2010 Taylor & Francis LLC
Subjects:	abuse Chicago, Illinois coercion control Federal legislation Females Girls Human trafficking Kidnapping pimp Prostitution Qualitative research Recruitment sex trade sex trafficking Slavery trafficking Violence Women United States > US Chicago Illinois
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Summary:	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.
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ISSN:	0897-4454 1541-0323
DOI:	10.1080/08974451003641065