The trafficking world is full of lies, deception, and reidentification. Women and children are especially vulnerable to sex trafficking because of their experiences with powerlessness, poverty, gender discrimination and the rolling history of physical and sexual violence. (Cree2008). There is five stages to be present in sex trafficking. “Enticement into the lifestyle, learning the lifestyle, living the lifestyle, caught up in the life style, leaving the lifestyle and reentrance into the life style”.(Williamson & Folaron 2003).
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Sex trafficking numbers are an estimate of the people that are consumed in the industry. A range of 600,000 to two million people worldwide are some how in the sex industry. This is one of the fastest growing organized crimes in the world. The United States is not one of the primary centers of sec trafficking the evolved in the 1990’s. (Kara 2008). The major section of sex trafficking is international between Southeast Asia, South America, Western Europe and other underdeveloped countries, even though it is very common in the United States. Especially, women that are refugees coming from Syria. They are people that need help and …show more content…
(Williamson & Folaron 2003). Some women make the decision to work in the sex industry at both prostitution and sex trafficking. While other women and children are forced by a higher person. The majority of women and children being brought into the sex industry is fairly young age ranging from 10 to 17 years old. Usually the victims have something in common like past abuse from family whether it be sexual or physical, in and out of foster homes, and runaways. Women and children are targeted by men and other women when they are poor or seen to be naive in their decision making. This allows the pimp or trafficker to have comfort for them. Children that are drug through life living home to home and running away is a sign to traffickers that they are wanting to leave and are easy targets. There is a relationship that the traffickers make with the victim to gain better control on them. Especially with runaways weather young or older they all are seeking food and shelter which a pimp can pay for. The key is the pimp to point out they can provide what they need but, once they are in the pimps comfort zone then they are in need of payback for the help. All the victims are the same weather they go to the streets looking for money or being talked into becoming a worker. The main ways a pimp or boyfriend accumulate workers that are willing in the beginning are by using different methods. Grooming, bait and switch, and guerilla pimping.