prostitution ring
Organized commercial exploitation
A prostitution ring is an organized group that manages prostitutes and coordinates the sale of sexual services.
The term implies a criminal network with multiple participants—recruiters, managers, clients—rather than independent sex work.
Law enforcement uses the phrase when describing operations they've investigated or dismantled: Police broke up a prostitution ring operating out of massage parlors.
- traffickingIllegal transport for profit
- brothelCommercial sex establishment
- massage parlorCommercial therapeutic touch venue
- red light districtZone for commercial sex work
- pimpProstitution manager
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- crimerobbery, accomplice, alibi, burglary, conspiracy
- criminal schemesconspiracy, collusion, racketeering, kickback scheme, assassination plot
- organized crimemafia, mob, the mob, syndicate, crime syndicate
- racketeeringracketeering, protection racket, loan sharking, extortion, numbers racket
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