Finding Victims Of Human Trafficking Summary

In Phyllis Newton, Timothy Mulcahy, and Susan Martin’s article Finding Victims of Human Trafficking they focus only on human trafficking victims. Within the article they identify victims and potential victims of domestic labor and sex trafficking and determine whether they have been identified as such by law enforcement. They will also explore differences between sex trafficking and unlawful commercial sex. The research conducted was by the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago. In the first method of research they did a telephone interview in sixty countries, which included two law enforcement representatives, a prosecutor, and two service provider organizations. In the second method they mailed out surveys with several

Isabella Blizard researches how useful Chapter 636 in human trafficking cases.Trafficking victims are often forced to commit crimes against there will, and then later are charged with the crimes. Blizard introduced an example in the article about a young girl named Holly. The girl was told by her friend to come to a location for a job opportunity, when she got there, there was men there forcing her to have sex for money. Holly declined, “but the men threatened her and forced her to travel to different cities to have sex with customers” (Blizard, 2017). Holly’s example, shows that there are situations, where the person has no choice but to commit a

The California Trafficking Victims Protection Act, was enacted in 2005 to criminalize human trafficking and still allow victims to receive restitution (Blizard, 2017). However, victims still receive trouble from the courts, and “get exposed to dual victimization” (Blizard, 2017). In the article Isabella Blizard (2017), goes into deatil about Chapter 636, she says that it was created by Weber to “protect victims of trafficking and end the use of traffickers using victims as shields”. However, Chapter 636 does not protect victims from dual victimization, because it only provides affirmative defense. Blizard (2017) states that it “does not protect women who work above hierarchy but also answer to traffickers”. The author concluded that although there is protection for victims, it does not eliminate the problem of dual