Human Sex Trafficking

This table was used the the study of Samuel Lee and Petra Persson. It mainly focuses on how countries view prostitution and which of them even consider it legal.

What encourages women to seek prostitution as a work form. Prostitutes who voluntarily sell themselves for sexual purposes often find this as a simple method to increase their income. Essentially, these women are not being forced to perform these sexual actions making them delinquents. "It is the fastest-growing business of organized crime and the third-largest criminal enterprise in the world" (FBI Human Sex Trafficking).

Victims, however, mainly consist of children and women who are forced to perform these acts under the influence of illegal substances. According to the article of the Protected Innocence Initiative, eighteen is the age that falls into the prostitution of minors. Focusing on this matter, United States borders have achieved to combat against domestic minor sex trafficking.

Programs in the United States have focused on lowering and even terminating this crime. A few laws have been taken in progress in various countries. Some of these programs include the Trafficking and Violence Protection Act of 2002 (TVPA). This act was reinforced for many years by the United States government. There was also other acts such as the PROTECT ACT of 2003 which penalized these actions with imprisonment time. Similar to the TVPA, the government introduced the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2003 (TVPRA 2003). All of these acts and laws began to take progress in our country to cease this crime.

Methodology

There were certain methods used to help prevent human sex trafficking. In 1855 the Criminal Amendment Act was passed. This act focused on the d...

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...to the fact that 62 countries have not convicted and traffickers. Along with these, about 104 countries have yet to generate any laws against human trafficking. Only 32 countries have followed and complied with these laws. In 2008, the TVPA stated that they believe that the states were not putting enough effort on prosecuting these traffickers. Until this day, programs such as the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA) helps citizens of this country on the awareness of these offenders. The United States continues to assist and make an effort to cease this crime. An estimated $15 million is given to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to operate programs of those innocence lost. Although this crime is nearly impossible to prevent, we will continue to enact more laws and have programs to help these victims and to finally put an end to this crime.