...Review of Literature “Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking: Assessing and Reducing Risk” is an article written by Karen Countryman-Roswurm that explores various factors and circumstances which put children and teenagers at risk to be victims of sex trafficking. Up to millions of minors fall into the hands of traffickers every year in the United States. Two issues exist in the discussion of the problem of sex trafficking of minors in the United States. The first issue is that not all professionals agree on the definition of sex trafficking, and not all professionals can agree if those who have been trafficked are criminals or victims. The second issue is that it can be difficult to obtain accurate data on the problem of sex trafficking because many...
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...Sex Trafficking and Slavery in the United States "She tied up my hands first, and then she put the tape over my mouth. And she put tape over my eyes," Debbie said. "While she was putting tape on me, Matthew told me if I screamed or acted stupid, he'd shoot me. So I just stayed quiet”...” Debbie said her captors drove her around the streets of Phoenix for hours. Exhausted and confused, she was finally taken to an apartment 25 miles from her home. She said one of her captors put a gun to her head”…” Debbie said she was then drugged by her captors and other men were brought into the room, where she was gang raped.” (Teen Girls’ Stories of Sex Trafficking in U.S.). Many Americans hear stories all the time of abduction and sexual slavery all around the world. They feel like something should be done about this injustice but since the acts are happening outside the country they feel disconnected. Unfortunately, most Americans are not as far from this problem as they would like to believe. Sex trafficking happens at an alarming rate in America. Between the years 1996-2000, America had the highest number of victims trafficked illegally into the country (Cullen-Dupont 44). With this high level of trafficking going on, why are many Americans unaware of this issue? They most likely believe that only foreign victims are trafficked into slavery, but the Texas Attorney General states that an epidemic exists of domestic women being forced into sexual slavery as well (Bellows 489). Debbie...
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...While the 13th amendment wiped slavery from the face of America in the 19th century; today, just under the surface, modern day slavery brews: human trafficking. From domestic servitude, to sex slaves, the number of victims has been rising exponentially each year. The trade of human beings is one of the fastest growing problems facing today’s society; because the United States is “the land of the free,” (Star Spangled Banner) many turn a blind eye to its existence as they don’t believe that such an atrocious violation of human rights could exist where there are equal rights extended to all people, and action must be taken in order to protect the innocents involved. When most people think of human trafficking their minds typically jump to foreign...
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...to combat domestic minor sex-trafficking. The purpose of this research study is to explore the ideology of different research studies that explain and identify effective strategies to prevent domestic minor-sex trafficking in neighborhoods and communities. Sex-trafficking is a social problem because, “the crime of people trafficking is an assault on human rights” (Heredia, 2008, p. 399). The issue of Fighting against sex-trafficking was addressed at the UN convention when a protocol was set to tackle the problems of sex-trafficking. There are strategies and interventions used by international and national human service agencies to assist the sex-trafficking victims. Shared Hope International and partner non-profit organizations stated the importance of protecting the victims, preventing the crime and prosecuting the perpetrators, and also have decided to act upon the problem (Shared Hope International, 2009). Further in the study, the researcher will provide detailed analysis of the strategies used by the human service agencies to aid the victims of trafficking. These strategies will include training law enforcement to investigate human trafficking cases, improving communication between the human service agencies and law enforcement, and enhancing the scope of research. Strategies and Implementation Identifying victims of trafficking Relevant studies have been found to identify both the present and historical problems that surround domestic minor sex-trafficking. The researcher...
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...Human Trafficking/Child Soldiers Edwina Hay Dr. Rufus E. Robinson Contemporary International Problems-POL 300002043 March 18, 2011 Human Trafficking/Child Soldiers Human trafficking has attracted the attention of the international community and individual states on more than one occasion. Trafficking consists of the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring or receipt of persons by means of threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, abduction, fraud, deception, the abuse of power or of a position of vulnerability or of the giving or receiving of payments or benefits to achieve the consent of a person having control over another person, for the purpose of exploitation. Exploitation shall include, at a minimum, the exploitation of the prostitution of others or other forms of sexual exploitation, forced labor or services, slavery or practices similar to slavery, servitude or the removal or organs (Human Trafficking, 2006). Many types of human trafficking and forms of exploitation exist and are constantly changing. The key types of human trafficking and forms of exploitation include sexual exploitation, labor exploitation of children, and exploitation for the purpose of begging. Sexual exploitation is generally considered to be the primary form of human trafficking offenses. Russia’s sex trade has spread; the sex trade industry currently employs 150,000 women (Human Trafficking, 2006). Sexual exploitation particularly affects women and children. They...
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...Human Trafficking: A Hidden Disease. Human trafficking has never been widely acknowledged in the United States, as many view the issue as an international problem. Human trafficking comes in two ways, international and domestic. International trafficking can be forced child labor or prostitution, whereas domestic is, for the most part, child prostitution (Levy). Close to twenty-seven million people are trafficked in the world, around 14,500 are brought to the United States from other countries (Buffett 116). Meanwhile, many children living in America are taken off the street and forced to become something most people could hardly comprehend. This issue is coming from all sides in America,...
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...Rough Draft: Human Trafficking and its Relationship throughout these United States A serious crime that virtually affects every country in the world is human trafficking. Human trafficking is a multi-national criminal business that’s roots are tied into “trans-criminal organizations, small criminal networks and local gangs, violations of labor and immigration codes, and government corruption” (Richard, 1999; U.S. Government Accountability Office, 2006.). Typically human trafficking has been defined as trading women and children for prostitution. As of late, trafficking has grown to include other types of force, fraud, or coercion, beyond sexual exploitation (USDHHS, pg. 3). The United States Congress has defined human trafficking into two categories, sex trafficking and labor trafficking. Human trafficking has grown since it first gained entrance into the political spotlight in 1996. Of the two, sex trafficking is the most talked about in America. The Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (TVPA) defines sex trafficking as, “[the] recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for the purpose of a commercial sex act in which [the act] is induced by force, fraud, or coercion, or in which the person forced to perform such an act is younger than 18” (USDHHS, pg. 3). A commercial sex act refers to a sexual act committed in order to receive a valuable typically intrinsic in nature. The types of sex trafficking include prostitution, pornography,...
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...Introduction A long history of the sex industry objectifying the female body for male pleasure continues to be widely prominent and relevant across the globe today. Annually, hundreds of thousands of America’s children and youth are being sexually exploited. This trafficking industry dates back to the late 1800s when children were first prostituted in the United States. Since then, the problem has been exacerbated by globalization and the emergence of the internet as a major source of communication. The increasing prominence of the media and internet allows for news to be easily shared. But because sex trafficking is a continuous issue, people have become desensitized to the harsh reality of the sex industry. Also, false news stories decrease...
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...The history of human trafficking Human trafficking was not a new phenomenon in our modern societies, in fact, between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries, at least 10 million people were enslaved from their countries in Africa and transported to both Europe and the Americas as part of the Atlantic slave trade. This trade was driven by strong demand for workers to work on farms in the Americas. In the end, human trafficking became an important part of an international trading system in which Europeans and North Americans exchanged goods for human straight the West and West Central Atlantic coasts of Africa. In 1502, the first African slaves were traded in the New World. In the 1600s, African workers began to use in the British Caribbean...
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...Works Cited Bales, Kevin, and Ron Soodalter. The Slave Next Door: Human Trafficking and Slavery in America Today. Berkeley and Los Angeles, California: University Of California Press, 2009. Print. Bertone, Andrea M. Ph.D. "HumanTrafficking.org | United States of America." HumanTrafficking.org: A Web Resource for Combating Human Trafficking in the East Asia Pacific Region. © 2001 - 2006 Academy for Educational Development., n.d. Web. 3 May 2011. <http://www.humantrafficking.org/countries/united_states_of_america>. Hodge, David R. "Sexual Trafficking in the United States: A Domestic Problem with Transnational Dimensions." http://www.worldwideopen.org/uploads/ resources/files/630/ TFGLO057_A_Domestic_Problem_Sex_Trafficking_in_the_US.pdf. N.p., 7 Sept. 2006. Web. 22 Apr. 2011. Hodge, David R., and Cynthia A. Lietz. "The International Sexual Trafficking of Women and Children." Affilia. © 2007 Sage Publications, n.d. Web. 22 Apr. 2011. <aff.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/22/2/163. >. Hughes, Donna M., and Janice G. Raymond. "Sex Trafficking of Women in the United States: International and Domestic Trends." http://www.ncjrs.gov/ pdffiles1/nij/grants/187774.pdf. N.p., Mar. 2001. Web. 22 Apr. 2011. Logan, T.K., Robert Walker, and Gretchen Hunt. "Understanding Human Trafficking In The United States: Trauma, Violence, & Abuse." http://tva.sagepub.com/ content/10/1/3.full.pdf+html...
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...HUMAN TRAFFICKING A SEMINAR PAPER PREPARED BY ELEGBOGUN OSERERE JULIET COURSE TITLE: CLASSICAL THEORIES OF CRIME, DELINQUENCY AND SECURITIES COURSE CODE: 800 IN PARTIAL FULFILMENT FOR THE AWARD OF MASTER IN CRIMINOLOGY DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY UNIVERSITY OF LAGOS LECTURER : PROFESSOR SOYOMBO OMOLOLU FEBRUARY, 2013. ABSTRACT With the rapidly increasing rate of migration – a by-product of a more globalised world – human traffickers have greater opportunities to exploit those who migrate to other States. First, human trafficking is driven by poverty and international productivity/living quality disparities. Second, the existing humanitarian and/or suppressive approaches cannot solve the problem. Third, the best option for solving the problem is setting up the ‘reciprocal direct investment’ (RDI) scheme between leading and lagged economies. The RDI scheme can facilitate improvements in the quality of public governance in lagged economies and...
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...Until recently, in the US, the thought of Human Sex Trafficking never occurred to Americans. Human sex trafficking is an illegal activity. This involves selling, buying and trading of people. They are transported away from their families and communities and are forced to work against their own will. People are trafficked both between countries and within the borders of a state. It is also known as modern slavery and a form of sexual exploitation; where women’s, girls and children’s are forced to enter in the world of prostitution. People do this to make money, for some people it’s a business a way to make profit. 27 million people all over the world are currently being forced into human sex trafficking, 1 million children will be exploited by the commercial sex trade each year (Buzzle). The purpose of this paper is to inform the audience about the crime of human sex trafficking. What is the background on human sex trafficking? What is the current situation in India with human sex trafficking? What will happen in the future with the issues of human sex trafficking? Human Trafficking is defined in the Trafficking Protocol as "the recruitment, transport, transfer, harboring or receipt of a person by such means as threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, of abduction, of fraud or deception for the purpose of exploitation." Human sex trafficking is the modern equivalent of slavery. It’s an incredibly profitably crime, bringing quick, high profits...
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...Human Trafficking Every year, six-hundred thousand to eight-hundred thousand men, women, and children are trafficked across borders worldwide; but what exactly does that mean? According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, human trafficking can be defined as, “the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring of receipt of persons, by means of the threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, of abduction, of fraud, of deception, of the abuse of power or of a position of vulnerability or of the giving or receiving of payments or benefits to achieve the consent of a person having control over another person, for the purpose of exploitation.” In most cases, this exploitation is sexual, but can also be composed of forced labour...
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...Domestic servitude is a form of human trafficking that is prevalent throughout various parts of the world. This problem is slightly more difficult to manage as it occurs in a private residence. Migrant workers are especially vulnerable to this form of modern slavery. Many measures by the government and society as a whole can be taken to prevent domestic servitude such as increased regulation of the private economy, increased awareness of U.S. laws on legal protection, and closer monitoring of Internet activity. Victims of domestic servitude are especially difficult to identify, as they are usually seen as nannies or maids living in private residences. Due to this setting, it is much harder for authorities to detect victims, because they...
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...Sex trafficking as defined by the United States government is the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for the purposes of a commercial sex act. A cameral sexual act is any act in which anything of value is given or received by any person. Sex trafficking is an issue that is mostly kept in the dark. It falls under the umbrella of human trafficking, which is the trade of humans, most commonly for the purpose of sexual slavery, forced labor, or the extraction of organs and tissues, including surrogacy and ovary removal. Sex trafficking is an underground business where children and women are the products being sold. Numerous documentaries show that sex trafficking is a growing exploitative business. Day after...
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