Female minors between the ages of 12 and 17 years old within the Northern area of Virginia, which consists of Fairfax, Arlington, Alexandria, Loudoun, Prince William, Fauquier, Stafford County that are victimized and unlawfully criminalized for domestic minor sex trafficking. While current stereotypes often depict the victims of human trafficking as being escorts, prostitutes, and etc. most victims are innocent young girls who are seduced or kidnapped from their homes and home countries and forced into the sex industry. The most common reasons these girls are introduced to human sex trafficking is due to:
Poverty
Age
Limited Education
Lack of job opportunities
Being Undocumented.
Gender inequality
Being Unemployment
Lost of parent/guardian through abandonment, divorce and/or death
Living in unstable/unsatisfactory living conditions
Being Sexually abuse
Having health/mental health problems
Police/political corruption
Residing in high crime area
Human trafficking is identified throughout the United States within cities, suburban, and rural areas. In terms of socioeconomic status, race, ethnicity, the area in which they reside, and any other factors there is no single profile for human trafficking victims. Victims are very diverse. Those who are lured into human trafficking are forced to work and provide sexual …show more content…
Speculating about the etiology of a problem is an attempt to arrive at an understanding of cause-and-effect relationships (pg.122). A hypothesis of etiology should identify what the participants in the change process believe to be the most important and relevant factors contributing to the problem (pg. 123).” Based on the preceding findings on personal and systemic issues regarding human trafficking, I have developed the following hypothesis of etiology, which will provide the factors and results of Domestic Minor Sex
Poverty
Age
Limited Education
Lack of job opportunities
Being Undocumented.
Gender inequality
Being Unemployment
Lost of parent/guardian through abandonment, divorce and/or death
Living in unstable/unsatisfactory living conditions
Being Sexually abuse
Having health/mental health problems
Police/political corruption
Residing in high crime area
Human trafficking is identified throughout the United States within cities, suburban, and rural areas. In terms of socioeconomic status, race, ethnicity, the area in which they reside, and any other factors there is no single profile for human trafficking victims. Victims are very diverse. Those who are lured into human trafficking are forced to work and provide sexual …show more content…
Speculating about the etiology of a problem is an attempt to arrive at an understanding of cause-and-effect relationships (pg.122). A hypothesis of etiology should identify what the participants in the change process believe to be the most important and relevant factors contributing to the problem (pg. 123).” Based on the preceding findings on personal and systemic issues regarding human trafficking, I have developed the following hypothesis of etiology, which will provide the factors and results of Domestic Minor Sex