Incidence of Identified Sex Trafficking Victims in Arizona: 2015 and 2016

Overview:

Human trafficking is a crime in the United States and as such, is hidden from plain sight making the estimation of the size of the problem complex and rife with error. Tremendous pressure has been placed on the human trafficking research community to provide an estimate of the sex trafficking victims in the United States. The desire to have an estimate is driven by the desire to align resources with the number of victims needing services, because of the illicit nature of the crime and a lack of a systematic reporting mechanism, establishing a reliable and valid estimate has been unobtainable.