...Bromfield, N. F. (2016). Sex slavery and sex trafficking of women in the United States: Historical and contemporary parallels, policies, and perspectives in social war. Affilia: Journal of Women and Social Work, 31(1) 1. Retrieved from PsycINFO. Human trafficking of women has a long timeline in history. The type of human trafficking spoken about in this article is sex trafficking. Sex trafficking has now been brought up to people’s attention and is recognized as abuse of one’s human rights. It is believed that sex trafficking was and is linked to social work. In the early 1900s commercial sex work was a type of sex slavery. Although prostitution goes back from the fifth to the fifteenth centuries it was not considered too important until...
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...Most people hear about Human Trafficking and think of the horror stories in local news, movies, bestselling books, international reports and other media sources describing the exploitation of persons for sex. Although the theme of Human Sex Trafficking has been a common topic through media, The United States Customs and Border Protection reports that it also includes “Domestic servitude, Labor in a prison-like factory and Migrant agricultural work” Situations like these may take us to think of Hollywood movies such as “Taken”, which show young vacationing girls in a scenario where they are being displayed in a semi private but luxurious auction, to rich foreigners against their will depicting sex trafficking. While we may have the movie...
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...“Sex Trafficking” “Human trafficking is the illegal movement of people, typically for the purposes of forced labor or commercial sexual exploitation. Everyone needs to be informed about the things happening around them, one being the issue of sex trafficking. Sex trafficking involves the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for the exchange of sexual activities or a transaction where money or other items of value are exchanged. The act of human trafficking is induced by force, fraud, or coercion, in which the person is forced to perform a sexual act under the age of 18. Whenever we hear the words “sex trafficking” we immediately think of women and children overseas who are being forced into prostitution....
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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 illegal trade of a human being for prostitution or labor is the criminal activity known as human trafficking. Human trafficking has become one of the largest problems in the country being as though anyone could be victimized. Victims of human trafficking are normally females, but they can be males as well any can range from all ages including children. Normally, victims are lured into traffickers by false hope either of a job or education, almost all of them get sold by family, husband or boyfriend. Traffickers hold their victims by physical restraint or by threats of endangering them or their love ones. Sex trafficking is the largest business for those involved in human trafficking. Minors under the age of eighteen (18 years) engaging in commercial sex are considered victims of human trafficking. Normally in this specific case it includes women or young females, but in other cases they can involve males. Sex traffickers normally hold their trade or business through different venues and business such as fake massage parlors, motels or hotels,...
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...trafficked each year. Many are kidnapped or simply sold by a family member into sex slavery. There children are often treated like animals living under the rules of an owner that mistreats them and no freedom is given to any children that wants to be reunited with their love ones, so they can be able to hug and see their families again and not work for owners that just sell their bodies to older men. Cambodia is commonly known for child sex trafficking. Young girls are being lured into having sex with men. CNN states in their article "Children are mostly abducted in the country of Malaysia and China to work for free in the sex trafficking business in the country of Cambodia". Children are forced to have sex with young girls/men are in high risk to get HIV/AIDS: There are many horrific results for example working for food, helping family, working for another people, that leads to children being sex trafficked in Cambodia Children in Cambodia that confirm their virginity are being sold immediately to men. Many mothers force their children to work in the sex business because for the lack of money in their household. Children don't have...
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...Although millions of innocent females fall victim to the despicable realm of sex trafficking, only a negligible percentage are recovered. Sex trafficking occurs when individuals are forced to perform sexual acts without reimbursement; traffickers beat, torture, and emotionally abuse their victims into obedience. Traffickers use cunning methods to both hide their operations and force their victims into a life of submission. In a perfect world, human trafficking would be easily obliterated. However, sexual exploitation of individuals being trafficked throughout the world cannot be eradicated due to the dense populous and ingrained submission of the victims. In the United States, the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) attempts to stop sex...
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...What is sex trafficking? Sex trafficking, or also known as human trafficking, is the trade of actual human beings and used for the purpose of sex slavery, forced labor,commercial sexual exploitation, and other appalling things for the trafficker or more. “Sex trafficking occurs when someone uses force, fraud or coercion to cause commercial sex act with an adult or causes a minor to commit a commercial sex act” (Smith). There are also commercial sex acts which include: prostitution, pornagraphy, and any sexual performance; only if done in exchange of items like money, drugs, food, clothes, or shelter. Because there is a serious demand for an industry like this, sex trafficking is a popular business. This industry is cyclical, it starts where...
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...tx.us) Many sex workers are given money in exchange for their services, though other things could be traded such as food, drugs or even shelter. Any goods or service traded for sexual acts constitutes prostitution. Drugs are often used to lure women into working for others who then "pimp" them out. They then use drugs to numb the fact they are in prostitution, creating a vicious cycle of dependency and self-loathing. Becoming dependent upon the high and...
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...The world seems sex trafficking as something that the victims are forced into while prostitution is seen as an occupation that people willingly do but this is not true. Studies have shown that 95 % of prostituted women want to come out of prostitution but cannot leave due to circumstances like having no other job skills, need food and shelter for themselves and family members and they are being under the control of their pimp and are not allowed to leave. If they are unable to leave, just like the victims of sex trafficking cannot leave, does that not mean that prostitution is the another type of sex trafficking? Thus both sex trafficking and prostitution prey on women and girls who are vulnerable due to poverty, discrimination and violence. Accessible and cheap internet shops, affordable wireless connectivity, and the ubiquity of webcams and internet enable mobile devices become the basic tools of this...
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...Human Trafficking generates about 150 billion dollars in illegal profits each year. More than one-third are from forced labor and the other two thirds are from sexual exploitation. Barbara Amaya lived in Northern Virginia, when she was 10 years she ran away from home because of her family abusing her. When a couple took her in they took care of her then introduced her to Human Trafficking. People don’t understand how serious this subject it, people are abducted and forced to do sexual labor. What is human Trafficking, it is when people are taken and forced into modern day slavery. Sex trafficking involves women, men, girls, and boys being forced into doing sexual acts for money. Human smuggling is the facilitation, transportation, attempted...
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...The Internet's effect on Human Sex Trafficking Does the internet have an effect on human sex trafficking? Human Sex trafficking is a form of slavery, they use many methods to engage in commercial sex acts against the victim’s will. 70 percent of human sex trafficking victims are found through the internet. The internet makes human sex trafficking easier and more accessible because people use different websites to sell people on the internet. Some sex traffickers use social websites to build this kind of trust with the victim, they promise them a lot of things and tries to lure them into doing something and they end up being a victim of human sex trafficking. There are many ways a trafficker uses to get the victims and to get them to engage...
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...The research topic discussed in this literature review addresses the question of what human service agencies in the state of Idaho do 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...
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...A Look at Human Trafficking Nicole Kohrmann Liberty University Abstract There is a world full of passionate people that want to bring awareness to human trafficking. Human trafficking exists on a global level affecting many men, women and children, in a variety of countries. Although there are some case studies available that involve this criminal activity, the lack of recorded data complicates the continued progress forward on the awareness of the real existence of human trafficking. The lack of data has a lot to do with the covert nature of human trafficking and the hidden activity that it is. The government will need to continue to amend the laws that are already in place, in order to prevent and catch traffickers before they reach their victims. Strong training for our law enforcement, our healthcare providers and any other agencies that may be involved also needs to be put in place. Continuing to create awareness will bring human trafficking to the surface for a difference to be made in the lives of the victims. Introduction On a global level human trafficking is an issue that continues to gain increasing awareness, as agencies in human services, law enforcement and health care professionals become more involved and aware of the problem. Human trafficking, according to the United Nations convention, is defined as; “the recruitment, transportation, transfer harboring, or receipt of persons, by means of the threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, of...
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...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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