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Data Analytics and Human Trafficking

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Advancing the Impact of Design Science: Moving from Theory to Practice (DESRIST 2014)

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Human trafficking is recognized internationally as an extreme form of violence against women, children, and men. Despite the fact that human trafficking is universally understood to be a burgeoning social problem, a paucity of data and insight into this issue exists. Data analytics has immense potential to elucidate trends in complex social data and inform future policy. We undertook a design science-inspired research approach to build datasets on human trafficking. Three prototypes are presented that describe the methodologies of human traffickers, display correlations between calls reporting suspected trafficking activity and various demographic data, and explicate the effectiveness of US anti-trafficking funding projects.

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  1. Decision Theater, Arizona State University, USA

    Kena Fedorschak, Srivatsav Kandala, Kevin C. Desouza & Rashmi Krishnamurthy

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  1. College of Business, Florida International University, 11200 SW 8th Street, 33199, Miami, FL, USA

    Monica Chiarini Tremblay

  2. Florida International University, 11200 SW 8th Street, 33199, Miami, FL, USA

    Debra VanderMeer

  3. University of Nevada Las Vegas, 4505 Maryland Parkway, 89154-6001, Las Vegas, NV, USA

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  4. University of Tennessee Chattanooga, 615 McCallie Avenue, 37403, Chattanooga, TN, USA

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  5. Virginia Commonwealth University, 301 W. Main Street, 23284-4000, Richmond, VA, USA

    Victoria Yoon

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Fedorschak, K., Kandala, S., Desouza, K.C., Krishnamurthy, R. (2014). Data Analytics and Human Trafficking. In: Tremblay, M.C., VanderMeer, D., Rothenberger, M., Gupta, A., Yoon, V. (eds) Advancing the Impact of Design Science: Moving from Theory to Practice. DESRIST 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8463. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06701-8_5

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