Briefing 2: The role and impact of organised crime in the local off-street sex market

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Published: 2nd September 2016

This briefing brings together key evidence on the off-street sex market from the Police Foundation’s Reducing the impact of serious organised crime in local communities project with Perpetuity Research.

This study took a ‘ground-floor view’ of the off-street sex market within a single city with the aim of assessing how much of this market is controlled by organised crime groups and trafficking, the impact on victims and local communities, the challenges to the police and local agencies, and their response to it. The briefing concludes with a number of recommendations based on the implications of the findings.

Authors: Michael Skidmore, Sarah Garner, Ruth Crocker, Sarah Webb, John Graham and Martin Gill

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The Impact of Organised Crime Briefing 2 (sex market)

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Michael Skidmore

Michael Skidmore joined the Police Foundation in May 2014 as a researcher on a project studying the impact of organised crime on local communities. He previously worked as a researcher in government for six years, most recently in Home Office Science where he developed a portfolio of work looking at the profiles of organised crime offenders. Michael also worked at HM Inspectorate of Prisons where he led the research for a number of national projects looking at the provision of alcohol treatment services and the treatment of remand prisoners in custody. He has also been a support worker for ex-offenders in a community and probation setting and has an MSc in forensic psychology. Michael did his DPhil in criminology and policing studies at the University of Portsmouth.