Data Science Program, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA, United States of America.
Business School, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA, United States of America.
PLoS One. 2022 Aug 29;17(8):e0273708. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0273708. eCollection 2022.
Human trafficking is a widespread and compound social, economic, and human rights issue occurring in every region of the world. While there have been an increasing number of anti-human trafficking studies from the Operations Research and Analytics domains in recent years, no systematic review of this literature currently exists. We fill this gap by providing a systematic literature review that identifies and classifies the body of Operations Research and Analytics research related to the anti-human trafficking domain, thereby illustrating the collective impact of the field to date. We classify 142 studies to identify current trends in methodologies, theoretical approaches, data sources, trafficking contexts, target regions, victim-survivor demographics, and focus within the well-established 4Ps principles. Using these findings, we discuss the extent to which the current literature aligns with the global demographics of human trafficking and identify existing research gaps to propose an agenda for Operations Research and Analytics researchers.
人口贩运是一个普遍存在的、复杂的社会、经济和人权问题，发生在世界的每一个地区。尽管近年来运营研究和分析领域有越来越多的反人口贩运研究，但目前还没有对此类文献的系统综述。我们通过提供系统的文献综述来填补这一空白，该综述确定并分类了与反人口贩运领域相关的运营研究和分析研究，从而说明了该领域迄今为止的集体影响。我们对 142 项研究进行了分类，以确定当前在方法论、理论方法、数据源、贩运背景、目标地区、受害者幸存者人口统计学以及既定的 4Ps 原则范围内的趋势。利用这些发现，我们讨论了当前文献与人口贩运的全球人口统计学的一致性程度，并确定了现有的研究差距，为运营研究和分析研究人员提出了一个议程。
