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Essay On Sex Trafficking

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“Sex trafficking in which a commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud, or coercion, or in which the person induced to perform such an act has not attained 18 years of age” (The Trafficking Victims Protection Act TVPA of 2000 (P.L. 106-386.) Sex trafficking is one of the United States most hidden form of violence (Estes & Weiner, 2001). This paper will be discussing the issue of child sex trafficking in the United States and how this heinous crime is committed, the aspects that go into this crime, the technology involved, and the legal and psychological effects of this crime. Children, both males and females, are used during this crime and recruited in various ways in today’s modern slavery (Whitaker & Hintlerlong, 2008). Technology will be discussed by using the internet, computers and most recently social media. Finally, the legal and psychological effects for children who have been involved in child sex trafficking will be discussed as well.
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Throughout this paper, the topic of minor sex trafficking will be discussed. Sex trafficking is “in which a commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud, or coercion, or in which the person induced to perform such an act has not attained 18 years of age” (The Trafficking Victims Protection Act TVPA of 2000 (P.L. 106-386.) Also, …show more content…

Some examples of recruitment used by traffickers and smugglers are finesse pimping, bait and switch, and gorilla pimping (Williamson & Prior, 2009). Williamson & Prior (2009) stated that there is also an underground network that consists of various titles such as connectors, recruiters, groomers, traffickers, bottoms, watchers, and wife in-laws. Each of the type of people involved in the minor sex trafficking trade all work together to bring in children from various parts of the world and in the United

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