Brennah VanCleave
Research and Citation Assignment
Comm. 101 Dual Credit
L. (n.d.). United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. Retrieved October 17, 2017, from https://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/human-trafficking/what-is-human-trafficking.html
This article defines Human Trafficking as the exploitation of individuals by means of threats and or coercion. It then goes on to define the three components of human trafficking as follows; the act, the means, as well as the purpose. The act is composed of the actions that are committed. The means is defined by how the actions are committed. And the purpose is established why those actions are or were being committed. The article then goes on to define the criminalization of human trafficking as the attempt, …show more content…
The United Nations is, for the most part, funded by governments involved in the organization meaning there is no secret for-profit organization regulating the information they produce. This ensures the validity of the information found within the source. The article itself doesn’t have a date on it, but given the active involvement of the UN in preventing such activities, the currency of the information can be depended upon. Overall, I trust the reliability and credibility of this source as they are an intergovernmental organization funded by national governments. Finding a reliable, credible, valid, and current source through basic keywords in Google was actually relatively easy after looking for a …show more content…
Within this text, the authors focus on the socioeconomic defining factors of human trafficking and the comparison of modern affected economy and historic affected economy. They use interviews of police officers and other law enforcement, social workers, and individuals who have been trafficked in order to demonstrate the ease for individuals to be targeted due to low-wage jobs and restrictive immigration policies within the United States. This source is very dependent on pointing out the flaws of United States legislation and policy, as well as the outlay of the economy and places the blame of human trafficking on such flaws. The excerpt then goes on to define human trafficking as the means of bringing people into slavery and then keeping them there, and includes the movement of people to keep them for labor and or other
Research and Citation Assignment
Comm. 101 Dual Credit
L. (n.d.). United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. Retrieved October 17, 2017, from https://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/human-trafficking/what-is-human-trafficking.html
This article defines Human Trafficking as the exploitation of individuals by means of threats and or coercion. It then goes on to define the three components of human trafficking as follows; the act, the means, as well as the purpose. The act is composed of the actions that are committed. The means is defined by how the actions are committed. And the purpose is established why those actions are or were being committed. The article then goes on to define the criminalization of human trafficking as the attempt, …show more content…
The United Nations is, for the most part, funded by governments involved in the organization meaning there is no secret for-profit organization regulating the information they produce. This ensures the validity of the information found within the source. The article itself doesn’t have a date on it, but given the active involvement of the UN in preventing such activities, the currency of the information can be depended upon. Overall, I trust the reliability and credibility of this source as they are an intergovernmental organization funded by national governments. Finding a reliable, credible, valid, and current source through basic keywords in Google was actually relatively easy after looking for a …show more content…
Within this text, the authors focus on the socioeconomic defining factors of human trafficking and the comparison of modern affected economy and historic affected economy. They use interviews of police officers and other law enforcement, social workers, and individuals who have been trafficked in order to demonstrate the ease for individuals to be targeted due to low-wage jobs and restrictive immigration policies within the United States. This source is very dependent on pointing out the flaws of United States legislation and policy, as well as the outlay of the economy and places the blame of human trafficking on such flaws. The excerpt then goes on to define human trafficking as the means of bringing people into slavery and then keeping them there, and includes the movement of people to keep them for labor and or other