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Tattoos of Girls Under Pimp Control & Pimp Rules for the Control of Victims
(2009)
Abstract
I have been collecting evidence of pimps’ practice of tattooing victims for several years. Tattooing, and sometimes branding or scarification, are marks of ownership. It is one of the ways that pimps maintain physical and psychological control over emotionally vulnerable girls. The girls and young women are frequently tattooed with the initials or street names of pimps. Marks also include gang symbols and $ signs or other symbols for the money the girls earn for the pimp.
Keywords
- pimp,
- control,
- victims,
- tattoo,
- sex trafficking
Disciplines
- Law,
- Criminal Law,
- Evidence,
- Health Law and Policy,
- Human Rights Law,
- Law and Gender,
- Law and Politics,
- Law and Society,
- Legislation,
- Rule of Law,
- Sexuality and the Law,
- Legal Studies,
- Social Work,
- Sociology,
- Community-Based Research,
- Criminology,
- Gender and Sexuality,
- Politics and Social Change and
- Social Control, Law, Crime, and Deviance
Publication Date
August 10, 2009
Citation Information
Hughes, Donna M. (2009, August 10). Tattoos of girls under pimp control & Pimp rules for the control of victims. Rhode Island: Citizens Against Trafficking.
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