A study of public establishment-based and private network commercial sexual exploitation in Kolkata and Mumbai, India

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ID2186265
AutoresAndee Cooper Parks (0000-0001-8894-592X, International Justice Mission, autor de correspondencia), Kyle Vincent (0000-0002-3567-0798, Statistics Canada), Ashley Russell (0000-0002-2953-6744, Florida State University), Zixin Nie (0009-0005-5334-7512, Statistics Canada), Alesha Guruswamy Rusk (International Justice Mission)
Año2019
Volumen5
Número4
Páginas281-311
Fecha de publicación2019-10-02
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Human Trafficking (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 2332-2705 • E-ISSN: 2332-2713
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/23322705.2018.1488483
OpenAlexW2884970310
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas26

This article details the methodologies and results from studies on the commercial exploitation of children in known sex trade areas of Kolkata and Mumbai, India. The results include the number and attributes of sex workers and minors observed in public establishments and within a more private network. The study among public establishments entails the use of a conventional sampling design and sample calibration-based inference strategy for analyses. Based on a network/link-tracing sampling design, the private network study maps the social network of this side of the phenomenon, and inference is based on mark-recapture and weighted regression analyses. Minors are present in both public establishments and private networks. The study illuminating the private network highlights the intricacies of relationships between the key players and gives insight into this more hidden side of the sex trade. Both sampling procedures allow for observations and data collection of exploiters and victims in the midst of exploitation. This study is the first of its kind amongst those undertaken in the study region. The Governments of West Bengal and Maharashtra have worked towards improving anti-trafficking efforts, and the results provide invaluable insight and recommendations for policy purposes, training and mapping exercises for future studies

Business · Data collection · Economics · Geography · Inference · Nonprobability sampling · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Statistics · Telecommunications · Tracing · West bengal · Computer Science · Demography · Engineering · HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk · Homelessness and Social Issues · Mathematics · Sex work and related issues