In the book, Human Trafficking Interdisciplinary Perspective McCabe cited, “The US State Department’s Trafficking Protection Act (2000) further identifies severe forms of human trafficking as: (1) sex trafficking in which a commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud, or coercion or in which the person induced to perform such an act has not attained 18 years of age…” (p. 134). This is a pretty self-explanatory definition; it appears to easily identify what a victim of sex trafficking is, however, sex trafficking can be extremely difficult to recognize due to the victim often times being mistaken for a prostitute that has willingly entered into the sex trade. In this case study, I will cover what is being done to prevent sex trafficking, programs…
Sample Annotated Bibliography Rocha, P.A. (2012). Our backyard slave trade: The result of Ohio’s failure to enact comprehensive state-level human-sex-trafficking legislation. Journal of Law & Health 25, no.2: 381-417. Retrieved February 25, 2017, from Academic Search Premier, EBSCO host…
On Sunday, July 23 at a Walmart in San Antonio, Texas police found a semi truck with 8 dead. After a group of 39 people tried to cross the boarder from Mexico. 30 were taken to the hospital, where one died and 20 were in severe condition. Sadly tragic incidents like these are rare ones. Human trafficking across the boarder is a huge business, and these three authors use interviews and other similar cases to bring this issue to light.…
Sex Trafficking Rough Draft The effects of sex trafficking are psychological damage, health issues, and social rejection. Countless sex trafficking victims suffer from psychological damage such as post-traumatic stress disorder. According to the Department of Health, “nearly 80 percent of the women were still suffering from post-traumatic stress ……
In the United States, it’s often believed that human sex trafficking is only problematic in foreign countries. However, the opposite is true; human sex trafficking is an epidemic everywhere. According to the National Human Trafficking Resource Center (NHTRC), in this year alone, 2,085 cases of human sex trafficking was reported in the United States. This number doesn’t include the large number of cases that go unreported, indicating that sex trafficking is more problematic than illustrated in most statistics. According to a journalist for the Huffington Post, “Trafficking minors for prostitution is the third highest money-maker for organized crime in the U.S”…
Within the last decade, the trafficking of women and children for sexual exploitation has become a major concern for governments, nongovernmental agencies and the media. Although the United States has been less visible as a transnational and domestic trafficking in women than other countries, this situation has dramatically changed. Trafficking for the purpose of commercial sexual exploitation has become a national problem that is increasing in scope and magnitude. (Raymond & Gomez, 2010). The sexual exploitation of women and children through sex trafficking continues to occur in the United States and across the globe at increasingly alarming rate.…
In recent news stories “Sex-trafficking” has been at the forefront acknowledging this issue is prominent in the United States. Surprisingly learning that the state I current call home has been considered one of the top three States in which trafficking is a huge problem. Growing up in Wisconsin you see the working women/men aka prostitutes walking up and down certain locations in milwaukee that are considered to be illegally designated for prostitution. So my thought is to create a transitional living home for those who have been exploited.…
Human trafficking can be defined as trafficking in persons as the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring or receipt of person by the means of threat, force, coercion, abduction, fraud, deception and the abuse of power and making someone feel vulnerable. (UNODC) Trafficking has become a larger issues within the last few decades primarily because of an increase in things like globalization and technology. While American's assume that slavery is still in existence in other parts of the world like Cambodia and Thailand, it's everywhere around the world without people even knowing it. With new technological advances that make daily lives easier, it's also making it easier for traffickers. With social media websites like Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat just to name a few the internet and cell phones have provided this tremendous…
Sex trafficking is one of the largest billion dollar industries that is unknown to most. This industry is believed to bring about seven to twelve-billion-dollars in sales each year. Trafficking has been around since the 18th century and continues to this day; it involves the recruitment of victims, transportation, selling and buying, and the harsh psychological effects on the victims throughout the process. Average citizens are unaware of this violent process that opposes an immense amount of human rights. Global politics, specific regions, poverty, and disenfranchisement contribute to making women and children deceiving victims of sex trafficking.…
According to Nevada Attorney Adam Paul Laxalt, “Human trafficking is a form of modern-day slavery impacting our most vulnerable populations” (Laxalt 1). Since 1994, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police department had recovered 2,229 people who were victims of sex trafficking. Both adults and children are targeted, however, mostly vulnerable women are targeted. In 2014, 107 children who were victimized by trafficking were recovered. “The National Human Trafficking Center Hotline has received 496 calls statewide since 2009” (1).…
By increasing awareness of sex trafficking among teens in suburban areas, the instances of sex trafficking can be reduced. Sex/Human Trafficking is defined by the U.S. Department of Justice “as the act of forcing a person to perform labor or a commercial sex act through force, fraud or coercion” (Faherty, 2013). This definition provided a basis of information to base research off of. Teens are considered to be people ages 13 to 18. By researching how to educate and therefore prevent teens in suburban areas from being lured into sex trafficking, there will be a significant decrease in sex trafficking not only in suburban areas but potentially across the United States and around the world, much like other national and international organizations.…
Arkron was 12 when he watched men beat his father’s head in with a brick and then slaughtered him with a knife all for what his father believe in. Arkron risked a lot to get away from those people in Myanmar to reach Malaysia. On the other hand, he did this all to live in a shipping container with 7 other people. People in Myanmar continue to fall into the cycle of persecution and sold into human trafficking all for what they believe in and this violates our basic rights as humans. People in Myanmar might remain some of the most persecuted people on earth, and for what?…
Sex Trafficking: The Global Market in Woman and Children. New York: Worth, 2005. Print.…
It can be said that human trafficking is the modern-day slavery. Human trafficking is the world’s fastest growing global crime. It involves transporting, recruiting, and harbouring of persons through the use of force, abduction, deception, abuse of power, and vulnerability of others for the purpose of exploitation and personal profit. Each year millions of women, men, and children are victims of this crime, however, especially children and women. Human trafficking is illegal worldwide but continues to occur everywhere.…
CASE STUDY Case study No-1 Ms. Remna (name changed )originally hailed from Uttar Pradesh ordinarily resides in Guwahati with her three young sisters and was working in a Beauty Parlour. Her father died in 2008. After her father’s death she became the sole earning member of family to look after her three young sisters. When she was 16 years old was subjected to trafficking to Mumbai in 2010. The trafficker was a lady who was known to her colleague.…