It is estimated that there are 20 million commercial sex workers in India, and around 80% of these are victims of sex trafficking. Kidnapped or lured from their homes, these women and girls are forced to succumb to sexual exploitation as sex workers through a combination of coercion, torture, starvation and rape. 40% of these victims are adolescents and children. There is a demand side and a supply side to this deadly problem. The highly sensitive nature of the problem poses many research challenges. Our paper covers new understanding of the Demand & Supply sides. We will share how using innovative research tools informed by behavioural sciences provide new insights into decision making and how that is helping to reshape the strategies and campaigns to attack this deadly problem.
Despite the efforts of global organisations, governments and companies in controlling illicit trade, the phenomenon continues to be a latent threat for the global economy. According to the World Economic Forum, the global value of illicit trade and transnational activities is estimated at between 8% and 15% of global GDP, potentially reaching as high as US$12 trillion in 2014. Each year, an increasing number of goods and brands are affected by illicit trade. To help the business community understand and define strategies to deal with the growing threat posed by the illicit trade, Euromonitor International has conducted extensive research on this topic. With this paper, we aim to draw attention to a global issue and describe the main winners and losers of the illicit trade.
Despite the efforts of global organisations, governments and companies in controlling illicit trade, the phenomenon continues to be a latent threat for the global economy. According to the World Economic Forum, the global value of illicit trade and transnational activities is estimated at between 8% and 15% of global GDP, potentially reaching as high as US$12 trillion in 2014. Each year, an increasing number of goods and brands are affected by illicit trade. To help the business community understand and define strategies to deal with the growing threat posed by the illicit trade, Euromonitor International has conducted extensive research on this topic. With this paper, we aim to draw attention to a global issue and describe the main winners and losers of the illicit trade.
Extracting insights from data is a lot like trying to solve a murder based on circumstantial evidence. We create one or more "theories" or narratives and then look to the evidence for confirmation of our hypotheses. This all works reasonably well when the evidence is consistent and well-behaved, but we can run into trouble when the facts contradict one another. This presentation looks at a real murder case with many contradictions among the different bits of evidence as a way to demonstrate the use of Bayes' Theorem to sort out the discrepancies and inconsistencies and arrive at "true" insightâthe narrative that is most probable based on the evidence.
The paper reviews various ways in which security breaches occur and suggests ways to prevent them. It addresses crime on the Internet, specifically phishing and spyware, and considers what could happen to panel research firms if their panelists' names and email addresses ended up in the hands of identity thieves. The paper also recommends strategies to build trust in the face of sophisticated Internet scams that threaten to erode consumers' confidence in joining online panels and participating in Web-based research.
The primary objective of this paper is to show how the laws of market research applied in an innovative manner vis-Ã -vis the use of special techniques and multidisciplinary teams of professionals is able to take a quantitative leap in analyzing highly complex situations. In these postmodern times, it is fundamental to rethink the old standardized marketing formulas, which can be likened to inert and not very creative cake recipes. Research, on the whole, deserves to be looked at anew and reassessed in order to make it more comprehensive, more flexible, and speedier, on one hand, and more complex and precise in terms of information quality, on the other hand. One of the most difficult themes to be studied refers to how an adequate strategy can be developed to prevent drug use. The challenge was to try to understand drug organization from a marketing standpoint, in order to address drug prevention using a broader strategy, with a well-defined action plan.
The primary objective of this paper is to show how the laws of market research â applied in an innovative manner vis-Ã -vis the use of special techniques and multidisciplinary teams of professionals â is able to take a quantitative leap in analyzing highly complex situations. In these postmodern times, it is fundamental to rethink the old standardized marketing formulas, which can be likened to inert and not very creative cake recipes. Research, on the whole, deserves to be looked at anew and reassessed in order to make it more comprehensive, more flexible, and speedier, on one hand, and more complex and precise in terms of information quality, on the other hand. One of the most difficult themes to be studied refers to how an adequate strategy can be developed to prevent drug use. The challenge was to try to understand âdrug organizationâ from a marketing standpoint, in order to address drug prevention using a broader strategy, with a well-defined action plan.
Implementing social indicators is a new approach to estimate the well-being of a population. One of the focal concerns is the public security and administration of justice. The number of reported crimes is declining in Denmark more people are afraid of going out in the evenings and walking alone. The argument is that the statistics do not indicate the real level of crime because not all crimes are reported to the police. Studies of victims of crime can help estimating the dark figure of crime and identify groups with high and low victimisation rates. Two victim surveys have been carried out with representative samples of the Danish population aged 15 years and more.
Since 1965, there has been rapidly expanding utilisation of surveys of the general public for knowledge about crime, law enforcement and criminal justice in the United States. This paper presents some results of an inventory completed in 1972 covering 400 separate surveys which asked one or more questions involving these topics. Of the surveys inventoried, 218 were conducted by one of another major public opinion polling organisation as part of periodic surveys; the remainder were special studies.
This paper presents the most significant available data concerning Japanese attitudes toward and opinions about crime, criminal law and criminal justice, selected from the results of reliably conducted public opinion surveys. The selected data focus on the death penalty, the nature and treatment of the criminal, sense of guilt and the amount of fines, the purpose of criminal punishment, and euthanasia.