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dc.contributor.authorKjellgren, Richarden_UK
dc.date.accessioned2024-05-27T00:00:57Z-
dc.date.available2024-05-27T00:00:57Z-
dc.date.issued2024-04-15en_UK
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1893/36021-
dc.description.abstractExploitation and human trafficking in sex markets tend to include both online and offline spaces. Understanding the scale, complexity and geography of networks is important in policing human trafficking and online escort adverts are often used to identify organised crime in this context. This article aims to make a methodological contribution to how data relating to online networks in the sex market can be collected and analysed. Through the application of web scraping, social network analysis and principal component analysis, the digital traces of 15,016 online networks operating on an adult services website were analysed in relation to their complexity and geographical patterning. The findings suggest that structural and geographical characteristics are useful for understanding the heterogeneity of online networks. Analysing networks, as opposed to assessing escort adverts, offers a more robust approach to understanding the sex market, which is more sensitive to the continuum of experiences encapsulated therein.en_UK
dc.language.isoenen_UK
dc.publisherSAGE Publicationsen_UK
dc.relationKjellgren R (2024) The geographies and complexities of online networks in the off-street sex market. <i>Criminology & Criminal Justice</i>. https://doi.org/10.1177/17488958241245287en_UK
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dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en_UK
dc.subjectCriminal networksen_UK
dc.subjecthuman traffickingen_UK
dc.subjectonline spacesen_UK
dc.subjectopen-source intelligenceen_UK
dc.subjectorganised crimeen_UK
dc.subjectpolicingen_UK
dc.titleThe geographies and complexities of online networks in the off-street sex marketen_UK
dc.typeJournal Articleen_UK
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/17488958241245287en_UK
dc.citation.jtitleCriminology and Criminal Justiceen_UK
dc.citation.issn1748-8966en_UK
dc.citation.issn1748-8958en_UK
dc.citation.publicationstatusPublisheden_UK
dc.citation.peerreviewedRefereeden_UK
dc.type.statusVoR - Version of Recorden_UK
dc.contributor.funderEconomic and Social Research Councilen_UK
dc.author.emailr.r.kjellgren@stir.ac.uken_UK
dc.citation.date15/04/2024en_UK
dc.contributor.affiliationFaculty of Social Sciencesen_UK
dc.identifier.isiWOS:001203795900001en_UK
dc.identifier.scopusid2-s2.0-85191015847en_UK
dc.identifier.wtid2008697en_UK
dc.contributor.orcid0000-0002-4847-7145en_UK
dc.date.accepted2024-03-13en_UK
dcterms.dateAccepted2024-03-13en_UK
dc.date.filedepositdate2024-05-22en_UK
rioxxterms.apcnot requireden_UK
rioxxterms.typeJournal Article/Reviewen_UK
rioxxterms.versionVoRen_UK
local.rioxx.authorKjellgren, Richard|0000-0002-4847-7145en_UK
local.rioxx.projectProject ID unknown|Economic and Social Research Council|http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000269en_UK
local.rioxx.freetoreaddate2024-05-22en_UK
local.rioxx.licencehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/|2024-05-22|en_UK
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