Annotated Bibliography On Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking

Have you ever walked into Wal-Mart and taken the time to look at the numerous pictures of missing youth that is plastered on the wall? When looking at how long they have been missing, it ranges anywhere from months to years. Looking at their age, both boys and girls, it is hard not to wonder if these kids are being trafficked. Child sex trafficking, also known as human trafficking, is a major issue that is not only plaguing the United States, but the world. Residing in a state where teen sex trafficking is very common, it is imperative that not only adults, but the youth understand what child sex/human trafficking is, what is a sex-trafficker, and the data that reveals the seriousness of child sex

Child sex trafficking is the profitable sexual act induced by force, fraud, coercion or a person is lured to have sex before they reach 18 years of age. It includes all the activities of recruiting, harboring, patronizing, advertising, transporting or obtaining children for sexual services involuntarily, through servitude, debt bondage, peonage or slavery. Due to advanced technology, it has acquired new course. It has become a complex phenomenon involving multiple stakeholders at commercial as well as institutional level. It is the modern-day form of slavery perpetrated against minors regardless of their race, class, socioeconomic status, education, gender, cultural conditions or citizenship (“Department of Justice," 2015).

Society may call it prostitution but federal law calls it sex trafficking. Victims need help not judgement or punishment. Due to the social stigma or misinformation, victims go unidentified, silenced by fear and control of the trafficker. They may be misidentified, pigeonholed into treatment for only surface issues. As a result, sex trafficked kids are treated for drug abuse, alcohol abuse, domestic violence, delinquency, or STD’s. All of this hides the true need for freedom. With the horrors of trafficking coming to an all-time high, it is important to fight this modern day slavery quickly and effectively.

The International Labor Organization estimated that there were 4.5 million victims trapped in forced sexual exploitation, or sex trafficking, globally. Most would believe that this is a problem that does not occur in the United States, but they would be wrong. In 2007 alone, 14,588 sex trafficking cases were reported in the United States and the problem is only getting worse. This research paper will discuss multiple topics such as the definition of sex trafficking, recruitment and those at risk, where it occurs, organizations, consequences, a healthcare provider’s role and a study on the attitudes of the public. The objective is to bring light to this problem and educate those who are reading (Polaris Project, 2016).

Women who were forced into sex trafficking had to service or perform sexual acts with 300 men at $100.00 an incident to pay off the $30,000.00 debt they owed to their traffickers. Consequently, sex trafficking victims are kept in servitude, and forced to perform sexual acts or have sex with strange men. Once free of their traffickers getting the help they need to be able to function in everyday society is not easy or easily accessible.

Prostitution of minors occurs all around the world. We do not notice because it may not concern us, and it is difficult to act when something does not affect us in any way. It affects you if you have children or nieces who are under age right now selling themselves to help out their families who are in need of money. What would you do right then to help them get out of that situation? That's what's going on in Europe right now when you visit, is the same thing that is happening in Mexico. There are many young girls selling themselves because they have to work to support their family.

trafficking of minors. The study would reveal of those cases that there were 153 victims with 215 criminal offenders. Roughly 90% were female victims that ranged in age 5 to 17 years old. The time in which they had been kept ranged from just less than 6 months through 5 years. This research study identified that there is a need for more transitional services once freed, to include counseling and stricter laws for the traffickers and pimps. (Kotrla, Wommack)

Sex trafficking is a serious issue that many in the United States but also the world is not aware of the magnitude. There are thousands of victims of sex trafficking and there are some who are more likely to be victim than others. In this essay, I will show why sex, gender, race, sexual orientation, and economics increases ones' chances of being sex trafficked.

What is Sex Trafficking? What are NGO`s for? When we hear that question, we think of so many things.To start off, Human Trafficking is a bad industry it's a population filled with prostitutes, a crime that affects every innocent people; it's a global issue that goes around the world and it's hard to stop. Most of the victims in this case are to be known as people in need of protection however; targets are to be abused, harassed in every way which is not right.The law should handle this situation very delicately since there won't be any identical image of them outside the world. Traffickers are in pain, and we don't understand what they are going through until we don't know the reality. It's really sad to hear how females especially are to be

Being sold for money, stolen from your family, being abused, raped, or neglected is not what any girl would have imagined could happen to them in their lives. Tragically it happens everyday and sex trafficking has become a really big problem in the past few years. There is an estimate of approximately 20.9 million current victims of sex trafficking globally (The Facts). Some of these girls will never be able to now live a normal life, as their owners rely on them for their so called “business” to survive in this world.

Imagine for a moment a place like no other. Imagine for a moment a place where peace, tranquility, and calm reign. Imagine a place where hurt, pain, suffering, strife, hatred, and envy are absent. Imagine a place filled with good. Imagine a place of beauty, of plenty, of wonder, and of serenity. Think of a place where the ills and burdens associated with the fallen nature of man do not exist. Wars are unheard of because the struggle for power and superiority does not exist. Murder, suicide, and abortion are unheard of because the value of created life is still respected. Homosexuality, adultery, polygamy, prostitution, and human sex trafficking are unheard of because the sexual element to human relationships was pure and intended to be enjoyed

The incidence of child sex trafficking is high, but there is still no reliable data. The incidence and prevalence data is also still scarce, and there is no consensus on the current estimates. The estimates focus on youth who are at risk for sex trafficking contrary to the actual victims. Some groups have carried out research on the subsets and subpopulations of the victims to provide an understanding of the scale and nature. The arrest records for example in 2009 data from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Uniform Crime Reporting among other bodies estimates that about 1400 minors were arrested for prostitution and commercial vice in the U.S that year. Other organizations such as Human Trafficking Task Force do not have the exact

Human trafficking, being difficult to identify and having little research about the topic, does not have state-by-state level data that could have been used for this research. Therefore, rape was used as a proxy variable. The independent variable of this report was, the percent of people in a state, living in urban cities according to the 2010 United States Census Bureau. Whereas, the dependent variable was, the rate of rape per 100,000 population by state in 2010. Although the results were not significant, there are changes that future research could adopt that might possibly result in statistically significant results. One of the most important changes that future research may be able to apply, is state-by-state data on human trafficking

The U.S. Department of State defines sex trafficking as “when an adult is coerced, forced, or deceived into prostitution- or maintained in prostitution through one of these means (recruiting, harboring, transporting, providing, obtaining a person or for debt bondage) after initially consenting.” Adults are not the only victims of sex trafficking. Children under eighteen are victims as well and are “induced to perform a commercial sex act.” The U.S. Department of State makes a point to say that the rules that apply to the forcible nature of sex trafficking for adults are not applied to children. It is a universal law that child sex trafficking is prohibited as it has too many consequences for children, especially as they age into adulthood.

This essay included a review of literature, a research analysis, and an annotated bibliography. This paper is an indication of my ability to synthesize research, cite a variety of sources in MLA format, and determine the quality and usefulness of a variety of sources. The essay is nearly completely free of grammatical errors. I spent the greatest amount of time on this paper. I chose to focus on the issue of sex trafficking in the United States. When I reviewed the articles which were used in my analysis, I summarized six articles written by scholars studying this problem. Then, I separated my analysis of the research into four sections: the American laws concerning sex trafficking, the systems and cycles of sex trafficking, the connection between prostitution and sex trafficking, and the reasons for the lack of statistics regarding sex trafficking. I put a great deal of work into reading and analyzing my research and displaying what I learned in an organized, thought-provoking fashion. This essay is one of my