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Sex Trafficking
Chasity Dukes
Liberty University
CJUS 500
Denny Powers
August 12, 2020
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Abstract
Sex trafficking is an increasing worldwide concern. Cartels utilize extortion to charm and seize
their subjects. About 1 million individuals are trafficked around external boundaries worldwide.
The avenues in which we will combat trafficking of persons are by communication, creating
civic understanding, taking measures, growing encouragement for law enforcement and the
prayer powers. This report aims to increase knowledge and inform individuals about the
trafficking of human beings, helping to end the problem collectively. People must realize the
effect that human trafficking has on perpetrators and the planet.
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Introduction
Sexual trafficking and abuse has been prevailing in this world for centuries. Since
medieval Greeks and Romans to feudal periods, human beings have been exposed to numerous
types of sexual or physical enslavement. Trafficking of human beings is a type of contemporary
slavery and has increased concerns out there. What’s more, Refugees are smuggled from
Mexico, East Asia, the former USSR, Africa, East of Europe, and Latin America. The U.S.
remains the leading countries for the sexual exploitation of human beings. Many youngsters from
the western world are being smuggled to industrialized countries, including Netherlands,
Singapore, Japan, and Germany.
Currently, slavery involves the unlawful human trafficking for forced or coercive sexual
abuse that is not restricted to the commercial sex worker. Additionally, Sexual abuse and
compulsory labor are by far the most prevalent reasons for trafficking human beings. Traffickers
employ intimidation, assaults, deception, debt slavery, and other types of oppression to compel
adults and youngsters to participate in pornographic commercial activities regardless of their will
(Deshpande & Nour 2013). Perpetrators are not only used for the street sexual activity but also
pornography, erotic dancing, modeling, live porn videos, mail-order brides, military trafficking,
and sex tourism.
Background
The UNODC (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime) defines human trafficking as
either an enrollment, shipping, or accepting persons illegally by means of intimidation, extortion,
kidnapping, malfeasance or trickery (Deshpande & Nour, 2013). The UNDC is responsible for
preventing crime, reforming laws, and criminal justice in the United Nations. Globally, The
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UNODC has been a victor in combats against illicit narcotics and international crimes.
Authorities are still struggling to respond to the chaos and uncertainty created by atrocities such
as the trafficking of illicit drugs, arms, mineral wealth, fake goods, and humans between regions
and countries.
Perpetrators, witness, and experts can assist subjects of terrorism, counterinsurgency,
cyber - crimes, public corruption, civil rights abuses, criminal organizations, massive robbery,
and violent crime (Masters et al., 2013). Victim witness experts operate in many nations for
perpetrators of TIP (Trafficking in persons), also known as slavery in human beings.
CSEC ( Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children) occurs when an individual induces
a child to consent to sex in a swap for periodic payments of money, shelter, food, or other
treasured objects (Kaplan and Kemp, 2015). CSEC also deals with child violence cases. DMST,
ordinarily acknowledged as Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking, which relates to the systematic
sexual abuse of the U.S. born juveniles(Kaplan and Kemp, 2015). The few associated in DMST
are equally in danger for developing either long standing physical or mental health problems,
susceptibility to STIs (sexually transmitted infections) substance, and physical abuse.
Feminicide refers to a hate crime that is related to sex acts, and it occurs internationally. A
literal definition is that it relates to the murder of ladies. Mexico, Guatemala, and Juarez Cities
are well-known places where there is a high level of femicides. In Mexico, Juarez, thousands of
impoverished girls are led to Maquiladoras, which means factory in Spanish. Juarez is residence
to a few of Mexico's leading drug cartels and has a demographic of around 1.6 million and a
temporary populace of 600,000. Throughout the last decade, 500 people have allegedly been
abused, mutilated, and violently murdered. From 2005, 4,000 Guatemalan people have been
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killed. Eighty percent of such incidents have not been prosecuted, and no charges have been
reported in ninety-eight percent of all the cases.
Guatemala started creating victim support offices and operational processes, mostly with
security forces during the period of mid-1990s. The Survivor's center is committed mainly to
safeguarding survivors from Feminicide. Where any victim has already been murdered, the
advocacy group will help the surviving members, who usually are relatives and friends.
Tactics of coercion that are applied in trafficking human
There are several coercion tactics used to manipulate victims into the sex trafficking
industry. Victims are often granted promises of citizenship in a different nation, faked marriages
that later come to be bondages, good education, and respectable jobs. Victims can sometimes
belong to any gender or age. Many of them are middle-aged women and teenage children. Many
of them are lured and sold in the sex industry by their husbands, fiancé, relatives, or even the
parents. Moreover, where other people are hesitant, they are kidnapped by smugglers forcefully.
Debt slavery seems to be the conventional techniques employed. This is a very illegal
practice since the victims have to provide sexual services to facilitate paying back the debt.
Examples of loans that must be returned include travel to the foreign nation and all their
household expenses. All the victim's services that they have to give come in the jurisdiction of
the smuggler and, whether the facilities fulfill his / her criteria within a given amount of time, the
liability is liquidated. Liquidation could take months, years, or weeks.
Additionally, traumatic bondage also is another trick that is being employed. It occurs
because a trafficker has loaded the Survivor with anxiety and making them feel that they are
fortunate to be safe and alive. Victims are generally recruited by elegance and guerrilla pimps.
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Poise pimping requires love, empathy, and intellectual activity. What's more, mental games
comprise of enticing victims with money, clothes, shelter, food, and narcotics. These presents are
to lure all victims into the feeling of being tied to a pimp. The guerrilla smuggling promotes
violence, intimidation, harassment, or hatred to imprison the victim.
When women and young girls are caught in the human exploitation trade, they all can't
come out of it. Some other strategies used to get the business running includes legacy
prostitution, the unintentional enslavement, or oppression of the prospective generation of young
people in the human sex-trafficking industry. This strategy has been the standard societal practice
in certain areas in the world, so smugglers would seize all the legitimate paperwork of the
victims to ensure that they cannot escape. A few obstacles that victims encounter are limited
funds, poor knowledge, and not being able to communicate in any other language apart from the
native language.
Main victims
Victims of human trafficking involve U.S. residents, foreign visitors, minors, men,
adolescents, and LGBTQ people. Ross-Sheriff and Orme claim that causes such as violence,
homelessness, political, or economic uncertainty, and policy corruption, limited knowledge of
harassment, sexual misconduct, or even other family issues generate a high degree of
susceptibility to human trafficking (Orme and Ross-Sheriff, 2015). Smugglers have always
contacted families living in poverty, seeking to buy their teenage girls or young ladies, and
offering them excellent living standards in a wealthier nation. They also target and ship people
who are still involved in prostitution globally. Parents or relatives as well push their kids into
being commercial sex workers.
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Smugglers or pimps choose the possible targets who already are financially and culturally
vulnerable. This involves' women and young girls who are susceptible to food insecurity,
poverty, violence in their families, sexual abuse, exclusion in their societies, dysfunctioning
families, any recordings of criminal behavior, and also drug addiction. Orphans, people with
physical limitations, and others who are mentally deficient and uneducated can be possible
targets (Deshpande and Nour, 2013). Children are also at risk for DSMT, although those with a
history of neglect, sexual exploitation, and neglect by the caregiver have a greater risk. Typical
places where human sex trafficking takes place include (Polaris, 2016). In the massage firms,
internet advertisements, escort services, home brothels, in motels and hotels, at truck stations,
and in streets.
Awareness
The U.S. OVC (Office for Victims of Crime) in the year 1988, founded Federal Crime
Aid Program to help victims of all federal crimes. The OVC allocates funds annually to both the
FBI and the Office of Attorney. The Victim Support Specialists collaborate with the two
government departments solely to support the perpetrators of major crimes (Masters et al., 2013).
Within the U.S, Victim Support Specialists operate together with OVC in overseeing whether
the agencies comply with the rules laid out by the U.S. attorney for the Victims and Witness
support. These criteria seek to guarantee that foreign perpetrators and all witnesses are handled
equally, and also their rights are handled reasonably.
Judicial solutions that have been utilized to mitigate this growing challenge are defined as
three P's: the Protection, the prosecution, and also prevention. Most regulations also stressed
punishment, but more focus has been given to combating trafficking or abuse, and supporting
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survivors and also the victims. In 2000 an, anti-trafficking campaign was started, and it centered
primarily on women and young girls (Orme to Ross-Sheriff, 2015). Progress has been reported
in acknowledging that LGBT populations are particularly susceptible to human trafficking and
that approximately 25 % to 45% of LGBT young adults in the U.S. are subjected to prostitution.
Sex Trafficking Outcomes
Human sex trafficking exposes the Survivor to mental, economic, physical, and social
problems. The average age of admission into the sex trade is fourteen years (Deshpande and
Nour, 2013). About 900,000 individuals are trafficked through international boundaries
worldwide, of which ninety percent includes women and young girls, and sixty percent are
juveniles. Per year between 160,000 and 400,000 U.S. minors are in danger of industrial sexual
abuse. Polaris Hotline of Regional Human Trafficking Information Centre has collected records
since 2007, entailing around 15,588 incidents of sex trafficking within the U.S. (Polaris, 2016).
International Organization claims that about 4.6 million individuals are regarded as sex
trafficking victims globally, Ninety-nine percent of these include women and girls (Orme and
Ross-Sheriff, 2015). There are about 600,000 to 700,000 potential victims of human trafficking
per year, and in every sixty seconds, one woman or a girl is trafficked for sexual abuse.
Trafficking leads to several significant safety and risks (Chung and English, 2015). Many
of the causes that worsen such issues include inadequate housing standards, shortage of
community care, and the usage of illicit substances, ongoing physical and psychological
challenges from acts like unprotected sexual activity. Trafficked people who take part in sex
work have fewer opportunities, support, and are more prone to harassment and assault than
individuals that haven't been smuggled.
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Possible Solutions from a Christian Perspective
The Christian church joins hands with local police forces in the battle of eradicating the
human trafficking. Law enforcement agents have a vital part to play within the sex business.
They can keep contact with these victims via 911 calls, traffic checks, during the inquiry, or even
house visits. It always is the responsibility of local police to secure and support these victims as
well as to put the perpetrators to justice. Moreover, the support of police officers may be
promoted by awareness-raising, civic outreach, and the influence of prayer.
Christians should be devout in caring for the liberation of any victim. Consequently, they
should pray for moral, emotional, and also the physical condition of every victim of human
trafficking, and also for their sustained survival and eventual reunification into their families or
societies. Most notably, Christians ought to pray for all traffickers. Pray that he or she reaches
salvation and repents of his or her sins. Ask God that they will seek the Lord, embrace Him, and
recognize God as their Savior. There should be a revolution on the planet.
It is essential to inform oneself and other colleagues on the subject of human trafficking.
Most individuals don't realize the facts of what the perpetrators are living through regularly.
Many of them are so shocked by the events of the incidents that they have trouble accepting that
is real. There are several books written in the U.S. and abroad regarding sex trafficking, and they
can give some perspective. Awareness-raising may be accomplished by engaging the media,
putting signs around the city, and forming informal help groups. The Polaris Initiative is indeed
the government-funded evacuation hotline, which is always available the whole day's 24 hours.
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While it is an escape hotline for all victims of slavery, it also serves as a platform for those
wishing to be active in the battle against sex trafficking of human beings in their neighborhoods.
Christians ought to offer forgiveness to wrongdoers for their sins as highlighted in the
bible. God's scripts teach us to despise sin but to love those sinning as our neighbors. Therefore,
as Christians, we are the warriors of God. We are placed on this globe to praise and spread word
of God His word and to relieve ourselves of all darkness. Measures to be successful in the fight
against trafficking of persons are through schooling, awareness-raising, activism, help from law
enforcement agencies, and prayers. All these strategies are necessary to win this fight, but
praying is the most significant. As Christians, we should never neglect the power of faith;
prayers have inherent power, and unknowable, intangible mystery. God is still there, even when
we don't believe so. As Paul explains our divine weapons, he mentions the vest of honesty, the
body armor of the justice of Heaven, the shoes of grace, the breastplate of faith, the weapon of
liberation, and the blade of the Spirit that is real God's word.
Conclusion
To sum up, Sex trafficking victims broadly include women, girls, and also youth.
Christians seek to reduce better the possibility of long-term behavioral as well as mental health
issues, susceptibility to STIs (sexually transmitted infections), drug and physical violence by
such people. We will mitigate these threats by research, civic awareness, intervention,
encouragement for police forces as well as prayer play an important role throughout the battle
against sex trafficking. A few of the toughest measures to implement when it relates to the
trafficking of humans for sex is the ability to forgive, mainly because it acts as a violation against
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all innocent persons. Nevertheless, the word of God tells us all to forgive since He already
forgave humankind.
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