In today’s society, you can find just about anything using internet search engines such as Google, Firefox, Internet Explorer, etc. There tend to be many hidden illegal sites that consist from anything of piracy, child pornography, drug trafficking or even human trafficking. Although, when most of these sites are found, they are immediately taken down, but these sites are constantly being put up that it is difficult to take down every single site. In my search, I found a website called backpage.com that is commonly known as an escort service, which allows clients to call and set up an appointment for sexual favors either at a hotel, their home, or any desired destination. While exploring this website, I found explicit photographs of not only women, but men also. I even came as far to find that at one point backpage was promoting child pornography and could possibly promote human trafficking. In Frolik (2013), he states that backpage was a prostitution ring that had thirty five prostitutes working for this site. Kevin Barker was accused of this crime and faces years in prison along with high-priced fines. Law enforcement officers say that Kevin not only had been running back page, but Peekaboodayton.com that also provided ads of prostitution. In Jacobs (2013) it states that a police officer set up an appointment with a woman who offer $160 per hour for sexual activity. It was later discovered that she was beaten and threatened to prostitute for the company. Marcus Washington now faces charges for promoting prostitution and human trafficking. According to the Frolik (2013), the appointment prices just for the women to come to them were about eighty dollars and the women had to give the money to the company. Barker said ... ... middle of paper ... ...have a help hotline for women or even men who are forced to participate in prostitution to help them get out of it and stay away from it. References Frolik, C. (2012, July 6). Escort service really prostitution ring, officials say. Dayton Daily News (OH). Greenberg, A. (2014). DarkList Aims To Be The 'Yelp ' Of Silk-Road-Style Drug Dealers. Forbes.Com, 1. Jacobs, D. (2013, September 27). Knox detectives charge man with human trafficking after prostitution arrest. Knoxville News-Sentinel, The (TN). Martin, J. (2014). Lost on the silk road: Online drug distribution and the ‘cryptomarket’. Criminology & Criminal Justice, 14(3), 351-367. Doi: 10.1177/1748895813505234 Norton, F. (2014, February 19). Wilmington man charged with human trafficking. Star-News (Wilmington, NC). Proofpoint discovers malware campaign targeting vacationers. (2014). Telecomworldwire (M2),
Most American citizens, if asked, would say that sex trafficking is an issue that happens on foreign land, not here in America. Many American’s believe that slavery was abolished years ago, but modern day slavery is happening in this country and internationally every day right under our noses. The startling fact, is that sex trafficking happens within our borders, and in our very own towns at a much higher rate than anyone would imagine. Sex trafficking occurs when people, usually women and children, are coerced into the sex trade against their will (TVPA, 2013). Many traffickers target weak, vulnerable people who come from low socioeconomic backgrounds and have a history of abuse; however anyone can potentially be trafficked (The Polaris Project, 2014). Many traffickers lure their prey in with false promises of love, money, or security, and then the victims are instead faced with lies, debt bondage, violence, physical and mental manipulation, and abuse (The Polaris Project, 2014). In today’s world many of our social issues, such as human trafficking, are made worse by the general lack of education, resources, and information available to the public and to victims. I propose a policy that will help 180 Turning Lives Around provide comprehensive and much needed services to victims of sex trafficking, as well as educate the community and law enforcement officials in order to help end modern day slavery in America.
According to Van Wormer & Bartollas (2014), sex trafficking, “encompasses the organized movement of people, usually women, between countries and within countries for sex work” (p. 289). Sex trafficking is also a very lucrative business, it is estimated to make $31. 6 billion annually. This amount is estimated from the 2.5 million people who a trafficked each year. The exact number of people who are victims of the sex industry cannot be predicted accurately for all over the world. In the United States alone there is about 14,500-17,500 people trafficked each year. Human trafficking it the third biggest organized crime after drug and arms trafficking (Hodge, 2014). Young men make up about 44% of people being trafficked, while women and girls
In the United States of America, prostitution is illegal in all of its 50 states with the exception of the state of Nevada. Nevada is the only U.S. state with allows legal prostitution in some of its rural counties. Occupational health and safety laws are applied to the brothels in these counties but the sex workers elsewhere in the country still remain exposed to the threat of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) and violence from pimps and customers. Prostitution exists in various forms in the States: street prostitution, escort prostitution, and brothel prostitution (Harcourt). It has been estimated that the sum total of the revenue generated by the underground prostitution industry in the U.S. is about $14.6 billion (“Prostitution Revenue”), the fifth highest in the world (about 8% of the total annual worldwide revenue). If prostitution were made legal, it would increase the U...
Walker-Rodriguez, Amanda, and Rodney Hill. "Human Sex Trafficking." FBI. FBI, 22 Feb. 2011. Web. 22 Mar. 2014.
Many people are aware of the issue of minor sex trafficking in the United States, but people may not be aware of the extent of the problem or what it is that attracts these “pimps” to children in the sex trafficking business. Sex trafficking is a major issue both in the United States and in foreign countries, although many Americans do not realize that there are more U.S. citizens that make up the victim count of traffickers than foreign nationals, and of these victims, children are the most vulnerable (cite DMST). According to the Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act of 2000,
Have you ever imagined being forced against you're will to do vile and disgusting acts? This is what hundreds upon thousands of women go through a year. $32 billion dollars a year is accumulated by the works of this “underground industry” called Human Sex Trafficking. (Fox2) Kidnapping, manipulating, and selling are three words that can describe what horrific action are taken towards the young victims in this business. Sex trafficking is 90% women and girls. (Sex Trafficking) Over 50,000 women are trafficked into the United States every year. (Sex Trafficking) It happens all over the country, especially in the cracks of America. Sex trafficking is just as big of a problem found in America as it is internationally. The lack of law enforcement towards this social issue has created a persistent business instead of a complete halt to this tragedy.
World Drug Report, 2010, published by the United Nations Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention, New York, 2010, p. 2.
Economically the human trafficking industry is highly profitable because of the demand of the sex industry. Wellspring figures show that from 2003 to 2007 just the known underground sex industry alone grew form $238 million to $290 million in Atlanta ("Resources - Wellspring Living," n.d.). The process of obtaining services is as quick as a click of a mouse on craigslist.com or backpage.com, the meet up can be arranged at your place or hers. Although we thought trafficking goes on mainly in impoverished areas most of the purchasers come from middleclass areas. According to the Schapiro Group study, 42% of men who replied to their ads were from North of the perimeter, 23% South of the perimeter, Urban Core 26%, and the airport area 9% (Schapiro Group, 2010).
Trafficking for sexual exploitation is a severe issue for many reasons. Firstly, as mentioned above because it is an illegal act, it is hidden underground. Heather Smith suggests that there are around 1,390,000 transnational sex slaves in the world (Smith, 2011). These people come from 127 different countries; are moved through 98 transfer countries; and end up in 137 different destination countries around the world (Trafficking in Persons, 2006). These statistics do not even include domestic sex trafficking victims. If they did, these numbers would sky rocket. Much like the illegal drug industry, accurate statistics are nearly impossible to obtain but ye...
Sex trafficking is a term that covers a range of activities. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services defines it as “a modern-day form of slavery in which a commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud or coercion, or in which the person induced to perform such an act is under the age of 18 years” (The Campaign 1). Victims of sex trafficking may be forced to do any number of activities to earn money for their traffickers. These include “prostitution, pornography, stripping, live-sex shows, mail-order brides, military prostitution and sex tourism” (10). Wherever there is demand for the sexual exploitation of a certain type of individual, such as teenage girls, young boys or children, traffickers will find people to meet that demand. Unfortunately, this puts innocent people in situations where they are taken advantage of.
Prostitution is one of the oldest jobs in the world and perhaps considered the ultimate victimless crime (Ruskin, 2012). As a profession that is estimated to bring in over 14 billion dollars a year in the United States alone with nearly 1 million prostitutes performing the acts, there ...
In the world today it is estimated that twenty-seven million adults and thirteen million children are victims of sex trafficking, and each year nearly thirty thousand will die from abuse, neglect and sexually transmitted diseases. Pimping is something that is spreading and threatening to the lifestyles of those too blind to notice it. Though it is seen worldwide as an ignominy to the human race, it is largely ignored causing it to become exceedingly more dangerous to the millions currently affected by it daily and those who one day will be. It is likely that if no one stands up and helps these victims, pimping will soon be at your front door. Pimping is something that has affected people almost since the beginning
It is the fastest-growing business of organized crime and the third-largest criminal enterprise in the world (Rodriguez-Walker, Hill).” As the business has expanded it is more organized and brutal. In some cases victims work for little or no money. As FBI reports women are locked up in rooms or brothels for weeks or months, drugged, terrorized, and raped repeatedly. They drug them in order to make it easier for them to have control. Because these captives fear their traffickers they remain silent and do not take chances even when opportunities to escape are presented. Customers are considered “Johns.” More often than not traffickers who have more than one victim have a “bottom”. The “bottom” has been in the trafficking system the longest and has earned their trust. They collect money from other girls, discipline them and take charge of the day-to-day
Human trafficking is moving up in a fast rate and more than half time the criminal doesn't know how its happening. In many cases those who have been exploited believe that they are offenders. Trafficking also happens by telling victims to have sex and if they don’t do it they threaten to call the police for prostitution if they push back(When Sex Trafficking..).
Assistant secretary of state for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, Harold Hongju Koh states that traffickers “views its victims as objects, chattel to be bought and sold as needed” (Potts, 2003). Every year there is over one million young women and children forced into sexual exploitation through human trafficking. There is no age or gender immune to human trafficking, and in the United States, about 50,000 women and children are trafficked into this country and placed in pornography, massage parlors, strip clubs and other sexual abuse situations (Potts, 2003). Human trafficking has reached epidemic heights and is to continue to grow (Hodge, 2008). Charlotte North Carolina ranks 8th in places where human trafficking takes place.