Summary: The Decriminalization Of Sex Trafficking

In the past few decades, a debate has arisen over the legalization of prostitution in America. Proponents of the cause claim that legalizing and regulating it would bring about a reduction in crime, improve public health, aid the poor, boost tax revenue, improve conditions for existing prostitutes, and allow those who willfully choose this path to do so without fear of punishment. Opponents claim the practice to be immoral and believe that permitting prostitution would escalate sexually transmitted diseases, cause increases in human trafficking, and further the oppression of

Human trafficking produces billions of dollars in profit every year, it is right behind drug trafficking as the most lucrative form of crime throughout the world. (DHS website). Victims of human trafficking rarely come forward due to the threats of murder, threats of killing their loved ones/friends, as well as having nowhere else to go because they have been ostracized from their own family and their “pimp” is their family. Another issue of why victims do not come forward is that they are afraid of law enforcement so they may go to jail, etc. (DHS website)

One of the most highly debated topics is whether or not prostitution should be decriminalized. Prostitution should not be penalized, in fact, prostitution should be taken seriously as a job. Of course, nobody should be forced into it, but if somebody would like to be a sex worker, they should be allowed to do so. Plus, if prostitution is decriminalized, there could be major benefits. People wouldn’t be dehumanized or abused as much, they could get professional help to deal with people who are abusive, and it would create more jobs. Everybody else gets to choose their job, so why not prostitutes?

There are an estimated twenty- seven million adults and thirteen million children who are involved with sex trafficking and roughly two thousand five hundred trafficking victims are believed to still be drifting at sea. Victims are usually beaten, ill treated, drugged, raped and prostituted, but nothing is being done. In the Sex trafficking industry females make up fifty- five percent, males make up forty- five percent, and of those percentages children make up fifty percent. Roughly estimated one point two million children are trafficked every year. When a child or new victim is just starting the traffickers often train the girls themselves by, raping them and teaching them sex acts. During the girls time as a sex slave they often feel shame,

According to the many articles & books I looked at, Sex Trafficking is a form of modern slavery it stems from prostitution. It’s a huge violation of Human rights & is solely for sexual pleasure.

Human trafficking involves force labor, sextual exploitationand violation of human rights. Human trafficking is a serious issue worldwide on abuse, abduction and sextual slavery.

Do you know how serious Human Trafficking is in America? Human Trafficking is when men, women, and children are sold to one or, more men for sex, and hard labor. The U.S. outlawed Human Trafficking in 1807, with the Thirteenth Amendment. But, there are still cases of Human Trafficking.

Now that harms of sex trafficking have been discussed, we can now examine how the Criminal Justice system responds to this issue and how society reacts to it. When it comes to address the problem of sex trafficking, there are a few challenges that arise. First, there is a problem is who the law considers to be victims. “Adults who sell sex willingly, with some kind of assistance, are not considered trafficking victims under U.S. law” (Weitzer, 2011, p. 1337). This brings us back to a subject earlier mentioned, prostitution. Just because it seems as if individuals are willingly exchanging sex acts for money, does not mean that is the case. Though the U.S. law may not think so, people who are involved in prostitution are still

The Oxford Dictionary defines Sex Trafficking as “The action or practice of illegally transporting people from one country, area, place or person for the purpose of sexual exploitation.” Sex exploitation is the type of illegal activity that people are doing nowadays that affect women and men but, mostly children who are being used for their sexual exploitation. Sex Trafficking has also been referred as the modern type of slavery in the fact that the victims get abused, have little to no pay and are mistreated. Anyone can be a victim of Sex Trafficking like men, women, children and babies, although the new type of commercial sex is being the most benefited from the children. Commercial Sex Act consists of sexual dancing,

The sex trafficking industry is a massive, illegal business spanning across the world, which involves taking girls from their lives and making them into human sex objects. Books and articles that are written about this topic are not fiction, they occur all across the world. Books like Sold, by Patricia McCormick, tell the story of girls in the sex trafficking industry in a realistic and factual way. Girls are bought and then required to pay their buyers back by working as sex slaves. These girls are abused mentally, emotionally, and physically if they go against or do not listen to their captors. Not only in the book, but also in the real world, girls are offered fake jobs, marriage, and great sums of money by anyone from people they are

Human trafficking is a global multi-billion dollar industry, targeting those who are vulnerable. Based on the simple economics of supply and demand, it is becoming the world’s biggest crime issue, and therefore the efforts to prevent these unethical actions need to be more effective.

Chapter 6 of this EBook is titled “Human trafficking as a form of transnational crime” and it goes in depth of what human trafficking is. It explains the growth of the problem as well as the different co factors. A key component in this book that my other sources do not poses is the issue of women in the role of traffickers. Most people believe it is primarily men that are traffickers. I intend to use this portion to reshape the identity of what a trafficker, which is not held to only one sex. Chapter six also brings to the table the different routes traffickers use to traffic human beings, the different methods they use to control, transport, and recruit individuals. If people understood the methods clearly they will understand the gravity

In 1981, slavery was officially abolished from the world. However, the abolishment is the illegalisation of traditional chattel slavery, where a person owns another person. In today’s world, slavery continues to thrive in almost every country taking on other forms. Sex trafficking is a form of modern slavery as it is the illegal movement of people for the purpose of sexual exploitation.

Some governments advocate for the legalization of prostitution, primarily with laws designed for governments to regulate the sex industry. Others support partial decriminalization, which penalizes the buyers of prostitution while condoning the sellers of sexual activity. To understand how countries regulate prostitution laws and adapt to the model, the effects must be analyzed within the government 's specific political goals and measures it takes to address the issue. This paper will focus on the political implications of the attempts of various governments in regulating prostitution.

The United Nations’ Convention held in 1949, stated prostitution to be “incompatible with human dignity”. According to the Oxford Dictionary, prostitution is defined as "The practice or occupation of engaging in sexual activity with someone for payment." Often referred to as the “oldest profession” in the world, prostitution has become a burning issue in today’s world. The ongoing debate on whether to legalize, criminalize or decriminalize prostitution seems to be quite unresolvable. This paper investigates the negative impacts of legalizing prostitution such as 1) encouragement of prostitution, 2) increase in the incidence of human trafficking and 3) exposure of prostitutes to severe harm such as drug abuse, infection from sexually transmitted diseases and violence, which clearly supports the fact that prostitution should not be legalized.