将风险评估方法应用于性交易过程:可行性研究

IF 1.6 3区工程技术 Q4 ENGINEERING, INDUSTRIAL

Systems Engineering Pub Date : 2023-01-16 DOI:10.1002/sys.21658

C. Laux, Kathryn C. Seigfried-Spellar, Laura Martínez Guerra, Gianna S. Lint

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摘要

性交易是增长最快的有组织犯罪活动。贩运组织受利润驱动，并根据现有需求提供服务。我们研究了应用风险评估方法从系统角度理解性贩运问题的可行性。以印第安纳州为重点，我们招募并培训了六西格玛（SS）中使用的风险评估方法的主题专家（SME）；特别是因果矩阵和失效模式与影响分析。研究团队开发了性交易业务流程图（BPM），并通过应用C&E矩阵来确定可能中断的流程步骤，从而对活动进行优先排序。中小企业确定的最常见的故障模式（FMEA）包括贩运者或客户被抓住，然后受害者被救出。我们的结论是，SS风险评估方法是理解性交易系统的可行框架。讨论了研究的局限性和未来的研究建议。

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Applying risk assessment methods to the sex trafficking process: A feasibility study

Sex trafficking is the fastest‐growing organized criminal activity. Trafficking organizations are driven by profit and provide a service due to existing demand. We examined the feasibility of applying risk assessment methods to understand the problem of sex trafficking from a systems perspective. Focusing on Indiana, we recruited and trained subject matter experts (SMEs) in risk assessment methodologies utilized in Six Sigma (SS); specifically Cause and Effect (C&E) Matrix and Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA). The research team developed a sex trafficking business process map (BPM) and prioritized activities by applying a C&E Matrix to identify the process steps with the potential for disruption. The most common failure modes (FMEA) identified by the SMEs included the trafficker or customer being caught followed by the victim being rescued. We conclude that an SS risk assessment approach is a viable framework in understanding the system of sex trafficking. Limitations and future research suggestions are discussed.

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Systems Engineering 工程技术-工程：工业

CiteScore

5.10

自引率

20.00%

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审稿时长

6 months

期刊介绍： Systems Engineering is a discipline whose responsibility it is to create and operate technologically enabled systems that satisfy stakeholder needs throughout their life cycle. Systems engineers reduce ambiguity by clearly defining stakeholder needs and customer requirements, they focus creativity by developing a system’s architecture and design and they manage the system’s complexity over time. Considerations taken into account by systems engineers include, among others, quality, cost and schedule, risk and opportunity under uncertainty, manufacturing and realization, performance and safety during operations, training and support, as well as disposal and recycling at the end of life. The journal welcomes original submissions in the field of Systems Engineering as defined above, but also encourages contributions that take an even broader perspective including the design and operation of systems-of-systems, the application of Systems Engineering to enterprises and complex socio-technical systems, the identification, selection and development of systems engineers as well as the evolution of systems and systems-of-systems over their entire lifecycle. Systems Engineering integrates all the disciplines and specialty groups into a coordinated team effort forming a structured development process that proceeds from concept to realization to operation. Increasingly important topics in Systems Engineering include the role of executable languages and models of systems, the concurrent use of physical and virtual prototyping, as well as the deployment of agile processes. Systems Engineering considers both the business and the technical needs of all stakeholders with the goal of providing a quality product that meets the user needs. Systems Engineering may be applied not only to products and services in the private sector but also to public infrastructures and socio-technical systems whose precise boundaries are often challenging to define.