Illegal activities in the community have various forms like stealing, kidnapping or selling drugs. While both the village in “Prayers For The Stolen” a novel by Jennifer Clement and my country, Vietnam, have those illegal activities in common, they still have differences in kinds and means. What are the differences between these two places? The drug dealers in the novel kidnapped young girls with force and they weren’t afraid of alerting the government. At the beginning of the novel, mothers had to make their daughters become ugly, so they wouldn’t be kidnapped. They even had to dig holes to hide their daughters. Who would steal their daughters from them? The drug dealer would. These outlaws would run into other people’s houses with guns in their hands and kidnap young and beautiful girls whenever they wanted, then sold them like packages to other big cities or other countries. Shooting and killing seemed normal to them. A dead body was dropped near the Ladydi’s house to warn that they were coming to get Paula. With their guns around, they even shot Ladydi’s house, just to scare her mother and force her to tell where her daughter was. They were willing to take down army helicopters if those helicopters got near to their poppy fields. While both drug dealers in the novel and human traffickers in my country kidnap people, human traffickers in my country have different ways to commit crimes without shooting and alerting the government. There were a lot of cases which young
Originating in the United States, ms-13 and similar gangs have had a devastating impact on central America. This article describes the origins from the United States and how through the Los Angeles Riots and other tough on crime policies had the effect of placing many immigrants and criminals back in their home country of central America. The deportees some of that might have been criminals and taken to the United States as children, united in desperation to become ms-13. The article further describes the brutality that the gangs have committed in the region. Through drug trade, smuggling and senseless murder, life in central America has been disturbed by gangs and have become a national security there. The dangers of gangs in central America
Human trafficking has been entwined into the structure of governments, arms trade, drug trade, and even spreads as far as terrorism. For many years it has been a fact that the money that has been made by selling other humans to the highest bidder. It is also known that the organized crime operations generate one of the most profitable resources to the organization. These organizations use this money for theirs or other’s crime and end up in the hands of drug lords. Drug lords, in order to promote their own business give money to support terrorist groups and activities. Security after September 11, 2001 has recognized human trafficking as a national and international security risk.
Certain neighborhoods in Central America are under the control of various gangs. The women and children are live in a constant state of panic. Women especially fear that they will be attacked. If anyone angers the gang or doesn't pay whatever said gang says that they have to pay to live there they or their children are under threat to be attacked.
Human trafficking is a popular modern day crime, which comes under the category of slavery. This includes the transport and the trade of other humans, otherwise known as the victims. This is done as a purpose of work. On average the human trafficking industry can equate to $32 billion a year. (SAAS )Around the world, about 2.5 million people are smuggled in to the trafficking industry at any time, according to records from the U.N. (SAAS) A number of humans are smuggled for trafficking on the terms of diversity, and these are for different reasons. Typically men who are trafficked are released into hard labour work with no benefits for themselves, sometimes including the basic human needs. Young boys who are trafficked are released into typically released into the fishing industry and agriculture; this is then leaving the women and the young girls to be released into forced prostitution. HTSM (2007) Not all humans who are smuggled are released into a form of trafficking; however, all humans who are trafficked are victims of slavery. When a human is the process of being trafficked, they would remove them from all familiar surroundings (unknown), and ensure that they
The United Nations and other experts have made an educated guess the complete market price value of unlawful human trafficking competes with both drug and firearms trafficking. The crime of human trafficking is intercontinental and is established everywhere, as well as the United States. The term “trafficking” is misrepresented in that it is frequently presumed to imply movement across multi-national borders.
The findings of this research do not affect the practice of criminal justice in a significant way. The majority of the information and data provided is well known at this point. However, based on the information provided on risk factors of victims. Law enforcement personal can keep an eye out for certain characteristics displayed in people who come in contact with law enforcement. For example, it is estimated that at least once in their life time a trafficked victim will come across law enforcement. The information provided in this article can be useful for police so they can recognize when someone is a victim of human trafficking. Characteristics can be things such as physical markings on a person’s body.
Although, smuggling and trafficking involve both humans, human trafficking differs from human smuggling because it is “compared to a modern day form of slavery”, involving “the exploitation of unwilling people through force” (Schmalleger, 2012, pg.605). Capturing, arresting and prosecuting human trafficking kingpins wouldn’t eliminate the problem, but rather encourage aspiring cartels to continue a “legacy”. However, fighting human trafficking is perhaps the most dangerous and difficult problem because of drugs and weapons, but nevertheless a rewarding accomplishment because “women and children compromise the largest group of victims” who are “often physically and emotionally abused” (Schmalleger, 2012, pg.607). A solution to this problem would probably be awareness, where the Federal government communicates to states, cities and communities to report suspicious activity. Therefore, proper help can be admitted to the victims by allowing new identities to be assigned; in addition, this would lower fraud and provide
Drug cartels, in reality, are just as bad as they appear on film. Authorities estimate that between eighteen and thirty-nine billion dollars are brought in from drug sales to the United States each year (Keefe). It is also estimated that the war on drugs has caused over 50,000 deaths in Mexico alone since 2006 (Keefe). Deaths are often overlooked because they are not compiled by thousands at once, but gradually over a large area. Other illegal activity such as kidnapping and oil theft have came about from the cartel (Mexico’s Drug Trafficking Organizations: Source and Scope of the Violence). All three films, Miss Bala, Maria Full of Grace, and Traffic give similar accounts to the way the cartel takes people’s lives, only in different areas of the drug moving process.
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.
Emily Dickenson’s poem, “Apparently with No Surprise”, utilizes different poetic devices to clearly convey her message of life and death to the reader. Throughout the poem, the audience gets a better understanding of the topic through Dickinson’s use of personification and imagery, to conclude the poem’s overall emotional attitude and meaning towards the subject. Dickinson manages to express the primary insight of death while utilizing different poetic devices to convey the brutality and the randomness of nature and life.
“A third method used by traffickers is kidnapping. Those approached to work in the sex industry but who are unwilling to leave their country of origin may be kidnapped.” (Hodge)
Although human trafficking is illegal, people still perform this action and they are hard to stop. First, different people are taken, then abused everyday and the same outcome happens to every criminal that enforces this act on these people, which is being arrested. Additionally, in a NBCNEWS statement Erin Calabrese wrote a news report that said, “84 Children Rescued, 120 Human Traffickers Arrested Across U.S., FBI Says” (1). Lastly, if the criminals know what is going to happen to them, then why do they do it? This question may never be answered because many people in the world enjoy doing what they do and in this case the crime is the buying and selling of men and women to work. Stopping someone from doing something they prosper in is difficult. Although people are performing human trafficking there also are people out there fighting for the victims of this illegal crime and trying to stop it.
Consider your decision to become a chaplain carefully, as this is not a job for the weak of heart. If you become a chaplain, you’ll work with people in the most difficult situations of their lives. You may be on call all hours of the day or night, depending on your work situation. There may be times you deal with difficult people and you may not always agree with certain opinions or lifestyles. However, if you are up to the job, a chaplaincy provides great rewards.
many academics, public officials, law enforcement authorities, and the news media believe human trafficking to be among the most tragic and horrendous transnational criminal activities facing us today. Victims are typically transported from
In school, we are somewhat taught about the conflicts Native Americans and Europeans had. We are taught what happened, but not really why it happened and what was gathered from the experience. For example, the United States government has roots in the Iroquois Confederacy (Indianyouth.org, 2017). European settlers gained from the forceful taking of Native American land, while the Natives suffered. They were lied to, robbed, and the majority killed. Native Americans used to be all over America, now there are only 556 federally recognized Indian and Alaskan tribes (Indianyouth.org, 2017). Although most Americans blame the conflict between Native Americans and European settlers on the Natives being uncivilized, the differences between the two cultures are more to blame due to them having contrasting values and Europeans believing they were superior.