TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2018//
TI  - Estimating demand for illicit massage businesses in Houston, Texas
JO  - Journal of human trafficking
A1  - Bouche, Vanessa
A1  - Crotty, Sean M.
SP  - 279
EP  - 297
VL  - 4
IS  - 4
N2  - Illicit massage businesses are growing in number across the United States, yet they remain an understudied niche of the underground commercial sex economy despite implications for public health and criminal justice. This research fills an empirical gap in our understanding of illicit massage businesses by estimating actual demand for these businesses in one U.S. city, Houston, TX. We find that there are roughly 2,869 customers per day at illicit massage business in Houston, and that this yields total annual gross revenues of $107 million.    Keywords: Human trafficking<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 2332-2705
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23322705.2017.1374080
ID  - ref1
ER  -