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Table 2 Coding framework

From: Everyday atrocities: does internal (domestic) sex trafficking of British children satisfy the expectations of opportunity theories of crime?

Proposition

Data extracted

1. Offenders are involved in other crimes as well as ICST

Criminal histories

2. Offenders’ everyday activities facilitate access to suitable co-offenders, potential victims and appropriate crime facilitators

Age at first ICST-type offence

Ethnicity and nationality

Marital status

Living circumstances

Employment status

Presence and nature of links between offenders

Offender-based rates of co-offending (as defined by Reiss 1988)

3. Victims’ everyday activities help explain their availability, attractiveness and vulnerability to offenders

Age at first ICST-type victimisation

Ethnicity and nationality

Living circumstances

Other background information

Presence and nature of links between victims

Modes of recruitment

Inducements received

4. Better-connected offenders tend to commit more offences

Offenders’ degree scores (obtained already via social network analysis of the offender networks)

Number of contact offences

Levels of offending

5. Abuse occurs at locations lacking supervision and familiar to offenders from their everyday lives

Nature of locations where offenders abused their victims

Precautions taken by offenders to evade detection