Reports & Publications
From Victims to Victimizers:
Interviews with 25 Ex-Pimps in Chicago
This research project is a follow-up to the Schiller DuCanto & Fleck Family Law Center's 2008 research with 100 girls selling sex in the Chicago metropolitan area who were under the control of a pimp.1 That study raised a series of questions about just who Chicago pimps are and the operation and organization of the Chicago sex trade. Answers to these questions would inform law enforcement efforts to end the recruitment, trafficking and exploitation of vulnerable young girls in Chicago's sex trade industry.
The Chicago Stalking Study: Interviews with Patrol Officers
Interviewing police officers is disruptive to police district routine and keeps the officers off the street and away from their regular duties. We are grateful to the Chicago Police Department for its cooperation with this project and for providing us the opportunity to hear directly from patrol officers, detectives, and domestic violence liaisons about their experiences. All too often the voices of those who are most affected by new laws and policies and who have to implement them are not heard.
Interviews with Five Ex-Pimps in Chicago
In March 2009 Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart sued Craigslist to shut down its exotic services advertising section. When his deputies responded to ads on Craigslist, they were often met by teens who had been falsely recruited or trafficked by pimps, who were now offering them for sale on Craigslist. This research study presents important information about the role pimps and traffickers play in Chicago’s sex trade industry.
Domestic sex trafficking of Chicago women and girls
The purpose of this research project was to obtain more information about the process by which young girls are recruited into the sex trade industry in the Chicago metropolitan area including strategies used, and levels of coercion, control, and violence that hold them in prostitution.
The Duke Lacrosse Case: Exploiting the Issue of False Rape Accusations
Originally published in Violence Against Women, Volume 14, Number 3, March 2008. Copyright Sage Publications. All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission.
Taking Rape Seriously: Sexual Assault in Cook County
A February 2008 report from the DePaul University College of Law Schiller DuCanto & Fleck Family Law Center.
Jody Raphael's Women, Poverty, and Violence Trilogy Saving Bernice
Battered Women, Welfare, and Poverty (2000) Listening to Olivia: Violence, Poverty, and Prostitution (2004) Freeing Tammy: Women, Drugs, and Incarceration (2007) Click here for ordering information.
Freeing Tammy: Women, Drugs, and Incarceration
Civil Orders of Protection 2006
A statistical report.
Hard Facts
An Analysis of Intimate Partner violence and Sexual Assault Data from the Cook County Legal System. A May 2005 report from the Family Violence and Sexual Assault Accountability Project of the Schiller DuCanto & Fleck Family Law Center.
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