Research-Survivor Formative Evaluation of San Francisco's Anti-Human Trafficking Task Forces, California, 2016-2018 (ICPSR 37178)
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Alexandra Lutnick, RTI International;
Minh Dang, MD Consulting
https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR37178.v1
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Research Triangle Institute (RTI) International, in partnership with MD Consulting, conducted a researcher-survivor-ally participatory process evaluation of the Task Force on Anti-Human Trafficking in San Francisco. The purpose of the Task Force is to review current efforts to improve the city's response to human trafficking and identify gaps in services for survivors. Participants include representatives from social service organizations, law enforcement, community-based organizations, philanthropic and advocacy groups, and concerned citizens.
This study included an integrated, multi-level approach of community involvement. People who have experienced a severe form of human trafficking are represented at all levels of the research process, including that of co-principal investigator (co-PI), research assistants (RAs) and members of the Community Advisory Board (CAB). The goals of this evaluation were to evaluate components of task force implementation through a comprehensive process evaluation, conduct a secondary analysis of law enforcement data, and create a research infrastructure that supports the intellectual and career development of people who have experienced trafficking.
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Police District
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Access to this data is restricted. Users interested in obtaining these data must complete a Restricted Data Use Agreement, specify the reasons for the request, and obtain IRB approval or notice of exemption for their research.
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Please note, the qualitative data will not be included in this current release, but it will be available in a future release.
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The purpose of this study was to evaluate components of anti-human trafficking task force implementation through a comprehensive process evaluation and create a research infrastructure that supports the intellectual and career development of people who have experienced trafficking.
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The research team engaged in multiple forms of data collection. This included reviewing administrative documents, including all available meeting minutes, reports and position papers developed by the committees, and the 2015 and 2016 annual report. The research team attended all general meetings and at least the first meeting of each committee for each year. Once a year the research team conducted key informant interviews with Task Force participants and members and administered the Levels of Collaboration Scale. Lastly, the research team conducted quantitative analysis of de-identified data provided by the San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) and the San Francisco District Attorney's Office (SFDA). Please note, the qualitative data will not be included in this current release, but it will be available in a future release.
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This study includes a random sample of San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) incident reports labeled as prostitution and/or human trafficking that were selected for the years 2009, 2010, 2014 and 2015. The purpose of this timeframe was to examine trends prior to and after the 2011 inclusion of human trafficking cases in the Special Victims Unit (SVU).
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Anti-Human Trafficking Task Force agencies, committees, individual members, administrative data, documents, and publications, as well as incident reports from the San Francisco Police Department and San Francisco District Attorney's Office.
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The variables included in this study measure administration collaboration along with attorney and police department data. This data includes descriptive variables of human trafficking incidents, along with general demographics of victims and police.
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Not available.
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Levels of Collaboration Scale, Frey, B.B., Lohmeier, J.H., Lee, S.W., & Tollefson, N. (2006)
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2023-10-26
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2023-10-26 ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:
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This dataset is maintained and distributed by the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (NACJD), the criminal justice archive within ICPSR. NACJD is primarily sponsored by three agencies within the U.S. Department of Justice: the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the National Institute of Justice, and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.