Using Knowledge Management to Assist in Identifying Human Sex Trafficking
Marisa Hultgren, Murray Eugene Jennex, John Persano, Cezar M. Ornatowski · 2016
The rise of technology has enabled traffickers to lure victims and sell them at a faster rate than ever before. However, the rise of the Internet has also created new avenues for prosecution and criminal investigations for law enforcement. This study uses a knowledge management approach of identifying an ontology of keywords that were then used to assess a sample of online adult ads to identify potential human trafficking victims. The value of this paper is in the production of a set of keywords that can be used by law enforcement to find and rescue human trafficking victims.