Sex Trafficking: A Form Of Modern Slavery

Human trafficking is one of the many faces of organized crime. Human trafficking is a broad term which contains trafficking for the purpose of sex along with the exploitation of labor. Currently, there are 20.9 million victims of sex slavery (Stacy.j.cecchet 2014 482) whom have or are suffering suffer inhumane circumstances and consequences. Sex trafficking is one of the largest criminal activities in the world (Stacy 249). Vulnerable women and children are taken advantage of and thrown into sex slavery, yet there is no explanation available as to how women and children are taken and thrown into the industry within countries such as Canada and the United States of America (482 Stacy j Cecchet 2014), which have human rights protection. Sex slavery leaves everlasting mental and physical effects on the abused women and children being trafficked. Even though sex trafficking is a crime it is also, for a lack of better words, an industry which would cease to exist if it was not for the supply and demand for women and children.

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Human trafficking is in every state of this nation and in every country across the world. It’s in cities, suburbs, and rural areas; being hidden in plain view; unseen by so many. In 2015, 17,500 cases of sex trafficking were reported in the United States (Chawla). This is only the cases that were reported. It is estimated that there were about 20.9 million cases across the world that never got reported in 2015 (Lize). There are more human slaves in the world today than ever before in history (Straker). The purpose of this paper is to educate the reader on human trafficking in the United States and in the World, and prove how bad it has become.

Human sex trafficking is one of the fastest growing and most insidious man made epidemics, coming only after the criminal industry of black market drug-trade. Perpetrators of human trafficking prey upon and agonize our most vulnerable members of society. These unprotected people are our men, women, children, who experiencing an institutional lack of resources. These individuals

Sex trafficking according to the National Human Trafficking (2000) is defined as a modern-day form of slavery in which a commercial sex act in induced by force, fraud or coercion, or in which the person induced to perform such an act is under the age of 18 years. Sex trafficking is mostly comprises of force, fraud and underage women or men to engaged in unwilling activities in order to get what they need in life. Most often people are brought to the United State specifically in search of job but little would they know that they have fallen into sex trafficking. Such activities generally tarnishes the image of the community where such practice is condone and moreover gives the people a bad image related to sexually transmitted diseases

Images of foreign lands usually conjure up when the thoughts of human sex trafficking come to one 's mind. The United States of America is not immune to this type of horrific behavior. America is the land of the free and yet something as awful as human sex trafficking occurs in our very own backyard each and everyday. According to the Department of Homeland Security the definition of human trafficking is “modern day slavery that involves the use of force, fraud, or coercion to obtain some type of labor or commercial sex act” (“What Is Human Trafficking?”). In this research paper the reader will experience the savagery that comes with human sex trafficking and how it has expanded in the United States over recent years. Within this research

The standard way of thinking about human trafficking has been that it is a problem of undeveloped countries. Lamentably, human trafficking it is an alarming issue in our nation, states, and cities. The National Human Trafficking Resource Center (NHTRC) acknowledges that last year (2014) 21,431 phone calls, 1149 emails, and 1482 online tips were made to report human trafficking in The United States. The same report presents that Washington is listed in the top 15 for human trafficking cases reported by state for 2014. In order to understand this scourge it is important to know that human trafficking “is a form of modern-day slavery in which traffickers use force, fraud, or coercion to control victims for the purpose of engaging in commercial

Slavery is a modern, pervasive problem. Human trafficking has been found in every state in America (humantrafficking.org). It seems that most Americans likely live within a comfortable drive of someone who is being exploited through human trafficking. There is a growing trend in human trafficking toward sexual exploitation (Bennetts, 2011). The Information Age has helped to create new opportunities for sex trafficking to flourish.

Sex trafficking is a form of modern slavery that exists throughout the United States and globally. Sex traffickers use violence, threats, lies, debt bondage, and other forms of coercion to compel adults and children to engage in commercial sex acts against their will. Under U.S. federal law, any minor under the age of 18 years induced into commercial sex is a victim of sex trafficking.The situations that sex trafficking victims face vary. Many victims become romantically involved with someone who then forces or manipulates them into prostitution. Others are taken in with false promises of a job, such as modeling or dancing. Some are forced to sell sex by their parents or other family members. They may be involved in a trafficking situation

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Sex trafficking is a hidden issue in every country of the world; the overview of this ongoing and increasing problem includes, the meaning, the victims and the locations. Human trafficking has a central definition of modern day slavery which, in some fields, represents slavery from the past using forced labor. However, sex trafficking is the most common type of trafficking in North America (Hotline Statistics). Human trafficking is a 32 billion dollar organization which involves around 2.5 million people worldwide and has been increasing since 2015 (Facts on Human Trafficking and Sex Slavery). From the year 2007 to 2016, a total of 31,659 cases were reported in the United States alone and many of the cases were women induced into the sex trade (Hotline Statistics). Traffickers do not have standards for their victims, “Victims can be men or women, adults or children, foreign nationals or U.S. Citizens” (The Victims and Traffickers). Most victims are from similar backgrounds including runaway or homeless youth, victims of domestic violence, sexual assault cases, war or conflicted disputes, and social discrimination (The Victims and Traffickers). Drug addiction, school

Around the world and right here in the United States, Human Trafficking is a form of modern slavery. The difficult comprehension of this human reality within our own communities, makes this travesty hard to combat. Understanding the pervasiveness, the reality of the crime and the impact it has on a community are a call to action for all of us.

Human trafficking is the present-day form of slavery that exploits individuals who are either coerced or forced for the purpose of commercial sex or labor exploitation.

Sex trafficking can happen everywhere. People do not even realize when it is happening. Someone could be living their life, just as they normally do, and decided to go to the mall. Sometimes they may not even know that a little kid is going to be kidnapped, and later raped. This is what sex trafficking is. Sex trafficking is commonly defined as when violence, drugs, lies, or any other form of coercion is used to force another person to have sex against their will. (Sex Trafficking in the U.S, 1) Sex trafficking is becoming a bigger issue more and more each day. As a society, sex trafficking needs to be known about by everyone so we could prevent, and eventually stop sex trafficking.

In current day and age, sex trafficking is referred to as “modern-day” slavery, where sex is sold through the use of forcible behavior, and the victim is coerced by those running the deals. According to the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000, the term sex trafficking is defined as, “the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for the purposes of a commercial sex act, in which the commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud, or coercion, or in which the person induced to perform such an act has not attained 18 years of age” (Sex Trafficking.) Sex trafficking is a huge epidemic that is spreading all over the country and is ranked the second highest revenue intake in the world, falling behind the movement of drugs (Shively.) This modern day slavery consists of those that are over 18 and minors committing sexual acts for some type of compensation. Those that are under 18 are seen as victim of sex trafficking because they are minors (Sex Trafficking.) The law sees that those who are under 18 are seen as the victims, whether they were coerced or not.