A Crime So Monstrous Benjamin Skinn Advertisement Analysis

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1. E. Benjamin Skinner:
• Earned Bachelor’s degree at Wesleyan University
• Worked in New York at the Council of Foreign Relations
• Given the Dayton Literary Peace Prize in 2009 for A Crime So Monstrous: Face-to-Face with Modern-Day Slavery
• National Geographic named him one of the Adventurers of the Year in 2008
• Nightline on ABC adapted chapters from A Crime So Monstrous in an Emmy-winning episode title “How to Buy a Child in Ten Hours”
• Some of his articles have appeared in Newsweek International and The Los Angeles Times
• Has appeared on many national networks, including CNN where he was interviewed by Larry King
• The World Economic Forum Named him a Young Global Leader in 2011
• Worked as a senior fellow at Schuster Institute …show more content…

Discuss the impact of slave trade in Romania.
In the book, A Crime So Monstrous: Face-to-Face with Modern Day Slavery, E. Benjamin Skinner describes the sex trafficking in Romania as something truly horrendous. It is explained that in Romania prostitution is illegal and seen as a vice. Nevertheless, there are many signs advertising the clubs that you could go to (Skinner 119). This shows that many people in Romania most likely share the same vice, because money was put into these advertisements to appeal to this audience. When people, see these advertisements it’s as if these clubs are being normalized, which takes the fear of illegality out of the question.
It was interesting when Skinner explained his interaction with an officer who claimed to “know about human trafficking” but then brushed the situation of as prostitution. When Skinner talked to Tatiana, she said “You just know” the difference between a sex slave and a prostitute (121). I’m sure Tatiana just knows because she was a slave so she knows what to look for, but the officer was intriguing. Either he didn’t care enough to think the situation at hand was sex trafficking or he wasn’t trained enough or at all. With the appropriate amount of training hopefully an officer would be able to identify a sex slave just as well as Tatiana …show more content…

It’s shocking because these police officers are a part of the anti-trafficking units and yet there are rules set up for them to go and support the trafficking. Which hurts Romania because this is another example of the police officers either not trained well enough or just not caring.
It is understandable that because one-third of the population is under the poverty line, people chose to be sex slaves to survive (Skinner 132). But there is a blurred line between who chose to be in this business and who was tricked or kidnapped, mostly because people don’t care. Sex traffickers themselves have to have very large egos to be able to take people away from their families and force them into something they never signed up for all for their

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