Brief Summary And Victims Of Human Trafficking

Human trafficking is the exploitation of humans to make money. There are more slaves today than ever in history. Most times victims are trafficked by people they know, trust and love like friends and family.

Human trafficking is the modernized version of slavery that involves force, fraud, and/or a type of labor in a sexual act. The United States government defines it to be “In which a sex act is forced in which the person induced has not yet been attained eighteen years of age” (National Institute of Justice). Human trafficking is a threat to all nations and promotes breakdown of families and can support organized crime. Trafficking can occur everywhere. Human trafficking and human smuggling are related to one another, but different crimes. The difference between smuggling and trafficking is that smuggling is the illegal movement of someone across a border while trafficking is the illegal exploitation of a person.

Out of the thousands of people that have been human trafficking victims each year, only an insignificant amount of them is actually reported. Imagine being in 8th grade. Having all sorts of hopes and dreams. Now flash forward to dreams being taken away by a pimp that lures people into human trafficking. In short, this is true for Holly Austin Smith, a survivor of human trafficking. The punishment for the pimps that ruin the lives of these young girls is not severe. Therefore, there is not much help for the girls after they get rescued from this tragedy. A realization Holly had soon on and explains, “...Although I was soon recognized to be a victim, the specialized aftercare needed for a trafficking victim did not yet exist... Twenty years ago, there were no anti-trafficking laws in place. This pimp, who raped and lured a child into prostitution, served only 365 days in jail” (Smith). This young girl had recovered from this horrible incident all by herself. Many other girls in her position have gone through similar experiences and have been hurt by their pimp. In addition, the pimp will not receive much punishment. A sad story repeated across America and is very prominent in other countries. In America, most of the time victims are the ones that usually serve time in jail since in some cases it’s considered prostitution, even if it was forced by the pimp. In most cases, the pimps stay uncovered and if the victims of trafficking come forward as to who their pimp is, they

Human Trafficking is the unlawful trade of human beings for various purposes such as reproductive slavery or sex slavery. According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime [UNODC] protocol on trafficking, “Trafficking in Persons is the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring or receipt of persons, by means of the threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, of abduction, of fraud, of deception, of the abuse of power or of a position of vulnerability or of the giving or receiving of payments or benefits to achieve the consent of a person having control over another person, for the purpose of exploitation” (UNODC).

Human trafficking and human smuggling are also two different things. There are some noticeable differences between the two, with human trafficking the victims don’t go voluntarily, they do not consent to being trafficked or

What is human trafficking? It is defined by the United Nations as “the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring, or receipt of persons by improper means (such as force, abduction, fraud, or coercion) for an improper purpose including forced labor or sexual exploitation.” To put it simply, it is moving someone illegally with the purpose of forced labour, sexual exploitation, or something similar.

What is human trafficking? Human trafficking is the recruitment and movement of people – most often by force, coercion or deception – for the purposes of exploitation [1]. Exploitation may include forced sex work and labor in settings such as domestic work, agriculture, and construction. Research has shown a high

Dunne believes that policy makers have focused too much on fighting voluntary prostitution, which he believes is not human trafficking. I agree with the author, that more of the focus should be on the other types of human trafficking. However, I disagree with the author that prostitution should not be a focus, because it might be difficult to determine which cases are voluntary and which are involuntary. I plan to use this information in my research paper because Dunne provides important information about how how definitions of human trafficking are used in beneficial and unbeneficial ways.

Human smuggling is illegal immigration in which an agent is involved for payment to help a person cross the border. Many people who are in this business either end up in jail for a very long time or end up dead. Trafficking is the exploration of unwilling people through force, coercion, threat, or deception and includes human rights abused. These problems can be found

The first time I heard about human trafficking, I was at church. I imagined a 14-years-old young girl, being forced into a compromising position. Then, the pastor told me something that broke my heart, most of these girl were not captured, but sold. They were sold by their fathers, or other members of their families.

Human smuggling and human trafficking are two distinct crimes that, the further down the food chain each go, the lines do get murky and tend to melt together. Law enforcement from around the world have often thrown up their hands at the crimes because of the web of complexities involved. The law enforcement community at times have plum run out of resources and manpower to devote to the crimes. Human smuggling differs from human trafficking in as it requires payment, consent, as well

Human trafficking is threatening or abducting people for exploitation. People, mostly gangs, kidnap men, women, and children to sell them on the ‘sex trade’ or use them to do hard labor. The money being made by using and selling people is much more than any other selling business, like drugs or exporting goods. This makes more people want to start in the trade. In order for money to be made, its is usually means smuggling people through borders. “If human trafficking is such a worldwide problem, it means that the government is losing control over their borders, not just in China or the U.S. but all over the world” (Yik-Yi Chu 42).

Human trafficking is the modern form of slavery, with illegal smuggling and trading of people, for forced labor or sexual exploitation. Trafficking is officially defined as the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring, or receipt of persons by means of coercion, abduction, fraud, deception, or abuse of power of a position of vulnerability for the purpose of exploitation. (“dictionary.com”) Human trafficking is not equivalent with forced migration or smuggling. In the U.S., human trafficking tends to occur around international travel-hubs with large immigrant populations, such as California and Texas. The U.S. Justice Department estimates that 17,500 people are trafficked into the country every year, but the true figure could be

This article discusses the challenges that local police departments in the United States face in identifying cases of human trafficking. The authors conducted a study of police departments in twelve separate counties in the US and drew data from case reports and interviews with police officers, prosecutors and victim service representatives. The authors found, despite the passage of laws by the federal and state governments, relatively few human trafficking cases have investigated and prosecuted. The authors found throughout their study that police culture, local definitions of human trafficking and lack of police focus have led to the perception that human trafficking is not a serious problem. In addition, the failure to differentiate vice

Different people are affected in the different types of trafficking. Sexual exploitation and forced labour are the two major types of trafficking. “Under U.S. federal law, any minor under the age of 18 years induced into commercial sex is a victim of sex trafficking—regardless of whether the trafficker used force, fraud, or coercion.”- polarisproject.org. In sexual exploitation, ninety-eight percent of all victims are women. Victims of sex trafficking can have very different situations. Some could be involved with it for days, others for weeks, and some for years. Many sex trafficking victims become romantically involved with their pimp, and from there they are forced or manipulated into prostitution. Some are promised jobs, like modeling or dancing, but they jobs are not really real. Instead, these women are forced against their will into sex or other forms of