Human Trafficking

There are several physical and mental consequences for trafficking victims. Some of those consequences are sleeping and eating disorders, fear and anxiety, depression and mood changes, guilt and shame, and posttraumatic stress

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.

This paper will explore human trafficking and the effects on its victims. The purpose of this paper is to design a research proposal on observable and indistinct characteristics. Outcomes of human trafficking vary widely and include mental disorders, trauma and resilience, pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases. Some may experience physical and mental abuse, along with physical exhaustion and starvation. Regardless of specific national differences, human trafficking characteristics are comparable among other countries. These common traits that individuals experience through trafficking are observable in any nation regardless of geographical location. These characteristics also can be found in regions that are considered first, second,

Human trafficking is a crime that is vast and ever-growing. It is also hard to identify and prevent, which attributes to the growing industry associated with this crime. There have been researchers who have examined the current data on human trafficking through literature reviews. Unfortunately, there will be limitations to this research because one cannot properly assess all cases of human trafficking; especially because there are many occurrences that go undetected. There have also been researchers who have linked human trafficking with particular criminological theories, in attempt to explain both why traffickers partake in this crime, and how individuals become victimized. This paper will examine 2 of the literature reviews completed, the limitations of those reviews, and 2 theories that may be used in explaining how one may become a victim and trafficker of human trafficking.

"An ounce of cocaine wholesale: $1,200. But you can only sell it once. A woman or child: $50 to $1,000. But you can sell them each day, every day, over and over again. The markup is immeasurable." This quote from the 2005 Lifetime film "Human Trafficking", however chilling and horrifying, is true. Human trafficking is the commercial trade of human beings who are subjected to involuntary acts such as begging, sexual exploitation, or involuntary servitude. Human trafficking is an umbrella term used to describe all forms of modern-day slavery. No longer is this a term from the past, but a horrific reality in our present and, unfortunately, our future. Every 10 minutes, a woman or child is forced into labor (McGill 12). Even though we live in

“43% of victims are used for forced commercial sexual exploitation, of whom 98% are women and girls” (UNGIFT). Women and girls are ensnared in sex trafficking in a variety of ways. Some are lured in with offers of real and legal work in restaurants, massage parlors, or anything else. Others are promised marriage, education and a better life. Still others are sold into trafficking by boyfriends, friends, neighbors or even parents (SOROPTMIST). Many of the girls and women are also forced into pornography. With all of the types of sexual exploitation comes abuse. Sexual, physical, and emotional are all types of abuse put onto females in human trafficking. Many people traffic others in hopes of getting money, work done, or just pure pleasure.

Specific Purpose: To inform my audience about Human Trafficking. What it is, where it is and who gets affected.

Throughout the 21st century, the number of human beings being capture and put into sex trafficking and prostitution has risen. In 2013, about 270,000 young boys, girls, and women were forced into human trafficking in the United States alone and estimated 20.9 million in the world. The UN has also estimated that nearly 4,000,000 are trafficked each year. UNICEF has estimated that as many as 50% of all trafficking victims worldwide are minors and that as many as two thirds of those adolescents are at some point forced into the sex trade. This is a 52 billion dollar industry. Two kids are sold every minute, 120 per hour. In other cases mothers of these children would sell them off for money due to financial reason, which

f. When prostitutes and juveniles are arrested for prostitution they are looked at as the offenders and not the victims.

The people that are taken are victimized in ways that are unimaginable. “ A trafficking victims experience includes severe exploitation, such as abduction, rape, sexual enslavement, forced prostitution, beatings, and starvation” (Squillante 224). This happens to the majority of women that are in the human trafficking trade, as none are taken care of properly and treated worse than if they were animals. Sex trafficking creates “a special evil” which exploit innocent and vulnerable victims predominantly consisting of women (Squillante 224). Women that are depressed

During her capture Karla Jacinto was raped over forty-three thousand times by her captors in Mexico. She is still dealing with depression and also post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). There is a lot more of psychological effects from the three types of trafficking. The most common effects of the trafficking were suicide, a lot of the people who were trafficked could not deal with what they are going through and what they also had to overcome so they took their lives to make the pain stop from all of the pain they were put through. Another common action of past trafficked human was to harm others and lash out toward society, people would hurt others to help with what they are going to instead of going to counseling to help

Throughout this research into human sex trafficking, there will be a thorough review of the history of human trafficking. There will be an analysis of the victims and perpetrators. There will be a study of the risk, preventative, and resilience factors of the victims. This research will also scrutinize what the successive and unsuccessive factors.

The blue heart stands for the sadness of those who are trafficked, that cold-heartedness of those who buy and sell fellow human beings. The use of the blue UN color also demonstrates the commitment of the United Nations to fighting against this horrible epidemic.

This bill will work with the U.S government to educate women and young children who may become victims of trafficking, spread awareness, and to have more efficient programs to help the trafficking victims recover.

Constant terror, abuse, long days and Isolation. These are the feelings human trafficking victims endure while being held captive and deprived of every basic human right (Behnke 15). When speaking of the term “slavery”, most would think of slaves from past centuries who were brought to North America and were abusively forced to work. However, slavery is not an issue of the past centuries. “Human Trafficking is the term that is used today for modern-day slavery” (Hart 4). Human trafficking manifests through various types of labor exploitation along with sexual exploitation and it is a rapidly increasing problem due to lack of awareness, education and law reinforcement.