Atlanta Escorts: Beth Schapiro responds to story debunking child prostitute study: ‘We stand …

Posted on March 23rd, 2011 in Atlanta escorts

Beth Schapiro responds to story debunking child prostitute study: ‘We stand behind our work’
Our cover story this week that analyzes research conducted by the Atlanta-based Schapiro Group, which claims to track incidents of juvenile prostitution.
The problem is that the claim is based on a seriously flawed methodology — the numbers presented to news outlets as hard statistics are actually based on guesses. The researchers look at photographs posted to online classifieds sites like Craigslist and Backpage and guess who looks under 18.
Beth Schapiro, president of The Schapiro Group, sent us a letter today defending her study. Here’s her letter in its entirety:

The Georgia House of Representatives just passed some of the most progressive legislation in the country on the subject. As award-winning journalist Ann Woolner recently noted in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, this legislation represents a major cultural shift in perceptions about the prostitution of teenagers.

See the full article from “SF Weekly (blog)”



Leave a Reply

XHTML: You can use these tags: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong>