Research Paper On Human Trafficking
What is Human Trafficking?
Human trafficking is a form of modern-day slavery. Victims of human trafficking are subjected to force, fraud, or coercion for the purpose of commercial sex, debt bondage, or forced labor. They are young children, teenagers, men and women. Trafficking in persons occurs throughout the world, including in the United States.
Many people believe that human trafficking happens only in other countries, including many Asian nations and in Central and South America. However, there are a large number of human trafficking cases that take place in the United States every year. Human trafficking but especially child labor trafficking is devastatingly destructive to a human, their development and future opportunities.
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The United States has recently enacted laws and regulations to strengthen the penalties for perpetrators of human trafficking. Human are innocent beings and are not able to provide consent for such activities, even if they have been brainwashed into thinking that what they are doing is right and okay. It is important that governments, non-profits and law enforcement agencies continue to work to end human trafficking and to punish those people who are found to be hurting human.
A study released in 2012 by the National Institute of Justice concluded, “A common frustration among the law enforcement officers that we interviewed was that, since the recession, funding has been tight throughout their entire department, and finding the resources to carry out complex anti-trafficking work has become less available in the department.”
Operation Cross Country, an annual law enforcement action that took place last week in 106 U.S. cities, highlights ongoing efforts by the Bureau—together with the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children and our local, state, and federal law enforcement partners—to address the sexual exploitation of juveniles as part of our Innocence Lost National
Human trafficking is a form of modern-day slavery. Victims of human trafficking are subjected to force, fraud, or coercion for the purpose of commercial sex, debt bondage, or forced labor. They are young children, teenagers, men and women. Trafficking in persons occurs throughout the world, including in the United States.
Many people believe that human trafficking happens only in other countries, including many Asian nations and in Central and South America. However, there are a large number of human trafficking cases that take place in the United States every year. Human trafficking but especially child labor trafficking is devastatingly destructive to a human, their development and future opportunities.
These individual …show more content…
The United States has recently enacted laws and regulations to strengthen the penalties for perpetrators of human trafficking. Human are innocent beings and are not able to provide consent for such activities, even if they have been brainwashed into thinking that what they are doing is right and okay. It is important that governments, non-profits and law enforcement agencies continue to work to end human trafficking and to punish those people who are found to be hurting human.
A study released in 2012 by the National Institute of Justice concluded, “A common frustration among the law enforcement officers that we interviewed was that, since the recession, funding has been tight throughout their entire department, and finding the resources to carry out complex anti-trafficking work has become less available in the department.”
Operation Cross Country, an annual law enforcement action that took place last week in 106 U.S. cities, highlights ongoing efforts by the Bureau—together with the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children and our local, state, and federal law enforcement partners—to address the sexual exploitation of juveniles as part of our Innocence Lost National