Reports & Publications
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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