Sex Trafficking Along an Urban Midwestern Corridor — Presentation Detail — Celebration of Scholars

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Sex Trafficking Along an Urban Midwestern Corridor

Name: Rachael Shaw
Major: Criminal Justice and Management
Hometown: Chicago, IL
Faculty Sponsor:
Other Sponsors: Wayne Thompson
Type of research: Senior thesis

Abstract

A combination of a criminal justice senior thesis and a business management senior thesis focusing on sex trafficking along the Chicago Milwaukee corridor (I-94) with specifications to Kenosha/Racine counties. This is the combination of analysis from two educational disciplines to study sex trafficking in a Midwestern community and how each discipline understands sex trafficking. The project draws from both criminal justice theories of why sex trafficking occurs and what happens when sex trafficking occurs as well as drawing from business models for why sex trafficking exists and has the opportunity to flourish in the Racine/Kenosha community. This project uses information drawn from traditional literary research models as well as IRB-approved interviews with members of the community that work on a daily basis with those involved in the sex trafficking industry. This project concludes with the combination of different disciplines to help expose the world of sex trafficking in the Midwest and how working with more than one discipline helps to comprehend the world of local sex trafficking. This work helps to bring attention to the underworld of sex trafficking in Midwestern communities in a way that is more accessible for a larger audience.

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