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Law Enforcement Response to Human Trafficking and the Implications for Victims in the United States, 2005

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Principal Investigator(s): Clawson, Heather J.; Dutch, Nicole; Cummings, Megan

Summary: The purpose of the study was to explore how local law enforcement were responding to the crime of human trafficking after the passage of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA) in 2000. The first phase of the study (Part 1, Law Enforcement Interview Quantitative Data) involved conducting telephone surveys with 121 federal, state, and local law enforcement officials in key cities across the country between August and November of 2005. Different versions of the telephone survey were created ... (view full summary)

Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR20423.v1

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