413047-Underground-Commercial-Sex-Economy

Appendix F
Law Enforcement Interview Protocol
Estimating the Unlawful Commercial Sex Economy in the United States
LAW ENFORCEMENT INTERVIEW PROTOCOL
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Unlawful sex activity (including sex trafficking, prostitution, and child pornography) poses significant
risk to public safety and undermines fundamental human rights. Together, these activities comprise the
Unlawful Commercial Sex Economy (UCSE).
The actors who propel and benefit from the UCSE are recognized as serious criminal elements.
However, without reliable estimates of the UCSE, we lack a verifiable and detailed understanding of
trade networks that comprise the UCSE. The goal of this study is to answer two broad research
questions.
First, how does the UCSE operate
Second, what is the role of social networks in the UCSE
We plan to estimate the structure (qualitative and quantitative) and scale of the UCSE, compare this
economy to other illegal economies in those cities, and measure how the amount of this activity has
changed over the last five years. This project focuses on six local sites across the United States. We
expect that focusing on how the UCSE operates in these different locations will result in the best
available estimates of the UCSE in each site.
Thank you for participating in our study. Do you have any questions before we begin
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