Addressing Under-reporting of Minor Victim Sex Trafficking, Florida, 2011-2017

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.

本研究针对未成年人性交易贩运受害者的漏报问题展开，通过统计佛罗里达州儿童与家庭事务部（Florida's Department of Children and Families, DCF）调查的涉及性交易或劳动贩运指控的儿童的数量与特征，开展相关分析。本资助项目下完成的分析包括：对经调查确认存在人口贩运指控的儿童与儿童福利群体中其他儿童的差异进行描述性分析、针对脱离照料且失踪儿童的人口贩运指控情况开展分析，以及儿童劳动贩运相关研究。此外，本研究还采用混合模型，刻画与贩运受害经历及贩运行为识别不足相关的风险特征画像。