Addressing Under-reporting of Minor Victim Sex Trafficking, Florida, 2011-2017 (ICPSR 37169)

Version Date: Nov 30, 2020

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Principal Investigator(s):
Deborah Gibbs, Research Triangle Institute

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR37169.v1

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Summary

This study addresses the underreporting of minor victim sex trafficking, by describing the number and characteristics of children with allegations of sex or labor trafficking investigated by Florida's Department of Children and Families (DCF). Analyses conducted within the grant include descriptive work on how children with investigated allegations of human trafficking differ from others in the child welfare population, human trafficking allegations among children with missing from care episodes, and labor trafficking of children. Analyses also use mixture models to describe risk profiles associated with trafficking victimization and the under-identification of trafficking.

Citation

Gibbs, Deborah. Addressing Under-reporting of Minor Victim Sex Trafficking, Florida, 2011-2017. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2020-11-30. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR37169.v1

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Funding

United States Department of Justice. Office of Justice Programs. National Institute of Justice (2012-IJ-CX-0025)

Subject Terms

Geographic Coverage

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Distributor(s)

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
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Time Period(s)

2011-01-01 -- 2017-12-31
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Study Purpose

This study seeks to determine characteristics and numbers of minor sex trafficking victims using records of children with allegations of sex or labor trafficking investigated by Florida's Department of Children and Families (DCF). Administrative data and statistical modeling was used to determine potential for underreporting of trafficking within DCF, distinctions between subpopulations of trafficked children and relationships between county- or region-level factors and the number and characteristics of trafficked minors identified.

Study Design

The study population of deidentified records of 1,047,081 children was collected from Florida Department of Children and Families administrative data records. Analysis included descriptive and multivariate methods, including logistic regression.

Time Method

Cross-sectional

Universe

Minor sex trafficking in Florida, United States

Data Source

Florida Department of Children and Families administrative data system

Data Type(s)

Description of Variables

Variables include child characteristics (month and year of birth, sex, race, Hispanic ethnicity), allegations (date, type of maltreatment, investigation findings), placements (supervised in-home care or out-of-home placement in foster care, relative care, group homes, residential treatment facilities), and missing from care episodes (date missing and returned).

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Original Release Date

2020-11-30

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