The Human Trafficking Study (HTS) is an open-source database housed in the Terrorism Research Center (TRC), which captures data relating to human trafficking crime at instance and offender level. Database codebook and structure was built using the legal coding structure of the American Terrorism Study (ATS), accounting for trafficking specific variables. Data is collected from United States federal court cases of labor and sex trafficking, as well as child pornography cases in which the offender has both produced and distributed child sexual abuse material. HTS data includes over 40 variables relevant to trafficking cases such as legal factors, legal outcomes, and defendant background attributes.
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ASSOCIATED ITEMS & NEWS
Data Snapshot: Types of Physical and Non-Physical Force by Sentencing Outcomes in Federal Human Trafficking Cases
Utilizing data from the TRC-housed Human Trafficking Study (HTS), this data snapshot sheds light on the association between judicial outcomes and types of force employed by offenders in federal human trafficking and child sexual abuse material (CSAM) cases. Analysis...
Data Snapshot: Introducing the Human Trafficking Study
The TRC is excited to announce the Human Trafficking Study (HTS)'s first data snapshot! This snapshot, Introducing the Human Trafficking Study, contains information about HTS as a whole, how our data collection and analysis is conducted, and early findings with our...