Category: Human Trafficking

Many Americans believe that slavery in the United States ended in 1865 when the 13th amendment was adopted. Unfortunately, that is not true. Slavery and Human trafficking flourish in our modern age. According to Bales and Soodalter (2010) a U.S State Department study states that approximately 14,500 to 17,500 people are trafficked and enslaved in…

There are many social issues faced by the criminal justice system in today’s society. One of those issues is the evolution of the internet and how its helped create more crimes. Throughout the years the internet has evolved into something we use on a daily basis. It’s no longer just something we use for research,…

The world as we know it is drowning in hardships and failures. Everywhere one turns, an image of the impending danger of global warming, mass economic failure, riots, genocides, AIDS, cancer, financial disaster, and poverty haunts their view. The race against these issues, that plague our future, has us working day and night to find…

The beginning of the twentieth century saw with it a rise in the attention of policymakers around the world to combat human trafficking as a means of protecting human rights and dignity. The United Nations has agreed upon a definition of trafficking in persons which includes the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring or receipt of persons,…

ABSTRACT This paper seeks to briefly analyses the various facets of the internet i.e. surface web, deep web and dark web, in addition to the mysterious and clandestine nature of the dark web which facilitates the perpetration of heinous offences, especially human trafficking, without the fear of being discovered. Further, the paper provides a birds…

Introduction Over the last 10 years, human trafficking has been established as one of the major criminal justice problems around the globe (Nelson 2015). In short, human trafficking is a system of modernized slavery where people forcefully trade human beings illegally for the intention of sexual manipulation and forced labour (PDCA 2017). In term of…

Human trafficking can have an effect physically, psychologically and economically on anyone involved (Fair Trade Winds, 2014). This major criminal enterprise has the power to impact someones life forever. Sexual exploitation in human trafficking is, the recruitment, harbouring, transportation of persons whom under threat, force, coercion, fraud, deception or abuse of power are sexually exploited…

Centuries ago we gradually came to a halt in slave trading. Seeing human being as commodities of equal standing with other items of trade remains a repulsive thought. And it is a disheartening part of our history as humans. Sadly, the extent of this form of trade happened more in Africa, known as the Trans-Atlantic…

According to the participant informants of the study areas respondents, there is a chronic lack of paid work, specifically for unskilled labour in their settings. Youth unemployment is high in many places. The labour market for young women is often very restricted  invariably more so than for young men. Women are not as highly…

SOCIAL ISSUE IDENTIFICATION Human trafficking is a form of modern-day slavery, defined as illegally luring humans into captivity to trade them for money or services (Davidson 462). According to the U.S. Department of State, human trafficking can be broken down into two distinct categories: sex trafficking and forced labor (Human Trafficking 1). Gale Global Issues…