Essays on Sex Trafficking

Many people associate slavery with the transatlantic slave trade of the past and believe that it is an institution that has been left in the past. This paper will look at how modern slavery differs from the transatlantic slave trade. The paper provides different arguments and examples from history of slavery and compares it to its current form. Moreover, the paper will include types of slavery that exist today. The role of United Nation to control the slavery in different countries will also be discussed. The paper will not only present the history of slavery but it will also ...

Sex Trafficking Survivors

Muraya, D.N & Fry, D. (2016). Aftercare services for child victims of sex trafficking: A systematic review of policy and practice. Sage, 17(2); 204-220. The study employed the use of current practice, a systematic review of unpublished and published research and organizational policies to explore the various aftercare services that are afforded to the victims of child sex trafficking. The study explored the various services that children survivors involved in sex trafficking are provided with and the policies in place to ensure they are taken care of. There was need for the development of best practices related to the ...

Significance of the study

It is important to study the psychological treatments that Nigerian sex trafficking survivors enjoy because sex trafficking inflicts deep psychological harm on the victims. The study will be beneficial to the law enforcement agencies that rescue survivors and link them to treatment services. Rehabilitation centers are potential beneficiaries as they can tailor their programs and approaches to address treatment gaps. Many traffickers control their victims using extreme measures of domination and control such as beatings, murder threats, rapes, abuse, insults, starvation, and gang rapes. Studying this topic reveals whether stakeholders are doing enough to address the psychological plight of ...

There are many sorts of crimes that are plagues on societies around the world. However, some are more prominent than others. Indeed, there is rape, murder and drugs. The latter, along with two crime types that often accompany drug use or dealing on more than one level, shall be the focus of this brief report. Specifically, there will be a review of peer-reviewed journal articles that pertain to illegal drug use, prostitution and money laundering. The first two often feed to the other in that the money garnered from the illegal activities has to be “cleaned” so as to ...

I have to admit that prior to this course I thought little about the subject of sex trafficking. And on the occasion I did consider it, I was likely guilty of victim-blaming. It remains hard to imagine that in this world, there still exists such a thing as slavery, and yet I know that it does exist. The idea of sex slavery sounds fantastical and something from a medieval horror. It brings to mind images of women who somehow are hard to sympathize with and therefore it is easy for us to dismiss it, ignoring the horror it really ...

Introduction

Sex trafficking is the process whereby people are forced to move from one geographical location to another with the intention of being used in prostitution for the betterment of the trafficker. This essay will utilize the five-step-problem-solving approach to critically analyze the problem of sex trafficking and find a solution to it.

Step 1: Identify the Problem

Sex trafficking occurs when criminals or traffickers, often disguised as employers and “pimps” “lure girls into prostitution, then control, exploit and brutalize them”. This means young girls are often promised good jobs and a good earning capacity in a foreign land. Usually, this happens when young children ...

Introduction

Freedom can be undoubtedly considered as one of a human being’s inalienable rights. However, many people are being stripped away of this right through a crime known as human trafficking. It can be argued that human trafficking is essentially a modern form of slavery, because people are forced to do jobs against their will, without pay and other work benefits. There are many forms of human trafficking, one of which is sex trafficking. Sex trafficking is defined as the use of people for commercial sexual activity against their will. Sex traffickers use means such as abuse, intimidation, coercion, ...

With the advent of computer use by all and sundry, criminal minded people have also ventured into what is termed as cyber crime, which has as many ramifications as there are categories of crime. It has therefore become imperative for the government and law enforcement agencies to put up stringent measures against such criminals. The main categories of crimes, perpetrated through computers are stealing computer hardware or software, manipulating data through computers, telecommunications and internal computer crimes. When viruses are implanted into other people’s computers in a deliberate attempt at being malicious against such people this constitutes internal ...

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Introduction

It can be indisputably averred that human trafficking is on track to become a major social and criminal issue in the United States. Commonly known as slavery, human trafficking is a criminal offense that involves “the exploitation of a person for the purpose of compelled labor or a commercial sex act.” With the adoption of the 2000 Trafficking Victims Protection Act, various personnel in the criminal justice system, from prosecutors and community leaders, have reported instances of slavery, debt enslavement, and being trafficked into the commercial sex work industry that have affected a wide range of American citizens-men, ...

Where there is sex trafficking, there is sex exploitation since it is often the vulnerable, the desperate, and the despondent who end up being lured into the prostitution trade. Prostitution is not beneficial to society as it evokes such problems as degradation of women’s rights, poor public health, and social disadvantages. Deshpande claims that, “Sex trafficking victims acquire adverse physical and psychological health conditions that require both medical and legal attention” (22). Basically, the author believes that young women and children face psychological trauma once they are free. They cannot make a fresh start because they have a ...

Introduction

Human trafficking is the unlawful movement of people to exploit them for labor or sexual services (“What is Human Trafficking?” n.d.). Unfortunately, as technology progresses, perpetrators of human trafficking also find new ways to endorse their exploits (Yetter, 2015). Subsequently, there are also efforts made by authorities to persecute those who take part with human trafficking which victimizes many, including minors. This is not only an issue on a state level, but an issue on the national level as well since these people operate on a national and even international level using social media (Bisaro, 2016). For instance, around ...

Nowadays, many people are quite familiar with the “shadow business” that has many as many different directions and one of them is a prostitution. The following regulation must not have any kind of rights to exist in modern society as it yearly brings horrible consequences as sex trafficking, sex exploitation, and child sex trade. Deshpande et al., in his article Sex Trafficking of Women and Girls, illustrates how the illegal business made a fresh start more than one hundred years ago, and how the pimps searched the young girls in order to sell them into sex slavery. These young ...

Human trafficking has become the modern form of slavery. It affects more that 27 million individuals in the globe. The scope of the practice is difficult to validate since most of the human trafficking operations occur as hidden crimes. The most prominent type of human trafficking that continues to enslave many people is sex bondage. Before pursuing the criminal justice course, the knowledge I had concerning sex trafficking was limited. I was not aware of the factors involved in the activity and the number of people who have succumbed to it. I also did not have sufficient information about ...

Introduction

Human trafficking is very much like modern-day slavery and according to anti-trafficking groups, there are about 27 million people who are trapped in human trafficking networks across the world. It may sound horrible, but it is the harsh truth. Millions of people are forced against their will into labor and sex slavery (Our Very Real Problem with Human Trafficking, 2015). Because of its very nature, sex trafficking is a clandestine activity. There are efforts being made, but there is still a lot to do. There are NGOs, governmental agencies and community groups across the world who are working to ...

Children are often considered treasures for families especially as they would be the voices of the future. They must be given the capacity to study, grow and become productive citizens without fearing to work or be abused in any way. However, some children are forced into slavery and trafficked into sexual workers. Although action has been enacted by the international community to stop child sexual trafficking, there are still regions – such as South Asia, which still has high cases of child trafficking. Considering this issue, it is a question as to why child sex trafficking continues to persist in ...

Human trafficking is one of the most pressing issues of our time. The victims of contemporary forms of slavery around the world are millions of people every year. Among all the types of human rights violations that draw the attention of the international community, human trafficking and illegal trade of human organs are undoubtedly one of the most brutal. Trafficking can occur across borders and within the same country. No one knows exactly how many slaves there are in the world now, because they are kept hidden and are not counted in censuses. However, experts estimate there approximately 27 ...

Children are often considered treasures for families especially as they would be the voices of the future. They must be given the capacity to study, grow and become productive citizens without fearing to work or be abused in any way. However, some children are forced into slavery and trafficked into sexual workers. Although action has been enacted by the international community to stop child sexual trafficking, there are still regions – such as South Asia, which still has high cases of child trafficking. Considering this issue, it is a question as to why child sex trafficking continues to persist in ...

Despite increased global policy attention on human issues over the past decades, human trafficking remains not only widespread but also deeply entrenched in most countries throughout the world (International Organization for Migration [IOM]). In South Asian countries, however, human trafficking is a plague. Whereas this problem can take several forms such as forced labor, servitude, peonage, bondage, and child trading in other parts of the world, in South Asia women and children sex trafficking is the most problematic, entrenched, and the most prevalent (IOM). Several factors have been shown to cause, influence, and sustain child sex trafficking in South ...

Abstract

Objectives: This paper seeks to discuss gender equality as one of the most crucial SDGs. It pays particular interest on women empowerment and promotion of women rights. Methods: The paper proposes the conception of an awareness program that targets popular and influential female figure. This is done with an aim to create a strong movement advocating form women rights and gender equality. Findings: It is evident that emphasizing on women right is a viable approach when it comes to promoting gender equality. This is based on the fact that women have been oppressed over a long time as indicated ...

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Abstract The United Nations is putting an effort to push development across the globe. It has set some objectives in its attempt to ensure that this development is sustainable and these include, eradicating poverty, achieving food security, establishing global health, promoting all-inclusive education, creating gender equality, availability of water and sanitation for everyone are just a few of its objectives. Human sex trafficking is a disturbing issue that is plaguing the world. The United Nations is working hard to fight this practice and has incorporated measures that counter the activities that fuel it. Thus, the manifestation of the sex ...

Seventeenth Century Problems in the 21st Century: An In-depth Look at Modern Slavery through the through the Work of Fiction “Zanzibar Chest” by Aidan Hartley

Abstract

The research would aim to delve into the intricacies of modern slavery that victimizes innumerable people from various corners of the globe. This is a qualitative study that goes on to explicate some statistical data as well for the purpose of substantiation of the claim. Indeed, an element of quantitative study would dig deeper into the work of fiction by Aidan Hartley. This author’s work, the Zanzibar’s Chest is a reminiscence of ...