International Human Trafficking Research

What this paper will be covering today is of grave importance on a global scale. While not a new concept with the advances of technologies and the entrenching of routes used for other illicit crimes this subject has morphed into a whole new animal. Human trafficking, an act spoken about in big government meetings and hinted at vaguely in many tv shows and songs like Bad Romance by Lady GaGa but often kept to the shadows as bad business. Well, off or poor, troubled past or bright future, it affects people of diverse backgrounds. Every year these people are taken and traded like nothing more than goods all over the world. It's a low-risk high-profit criminal endeavor because of this profits are in the range of $150 billion dollars(International
In a year trafficking makes revenue in proximity to two major automotive companies(Ford Corporation, 2015)(GM Corporation, 2015). Due to the low-risk associated with human trafficking it has become so refined it is similar to a multinational corporation in its organization. It is steadily growing each year, in 2005 the International Labor Organization estimated that the revenue for human trafficking was 31.7 billion dollars a year(Kara, S., 2009). that's an increase of 118.3 billion dollars a year in 11 years. That's a 473% increase in just 11 years. This shows just how exponentially this business is growing and why it's tied as the second leading criminal industry in the world(NSVRC,2012). Each victim of sex trafficking makes their captors an estimated $5,000 a month. In forced labor trafficking, traffickers recruit people and hold their passports hostage in a lot of cases. In this way, the traffickers can save thousands of dollars by paying the workers starvation wages while the workers keep accruing "debt" for their upkeep. If we do nothing about this, the business of trafficking will only become harder to
Due to many factors you'll find in this paper it isn't slowing down, it's steaming its way towards becoming the world's leading crime. Every year it affects countries all over the world. Two out of every five countries have reported no convictions of any traffickers(Chaw et al., 2002). It even affects countries as small as Iceland. Unlike guns or drugs, humans are a resalable commodity and most traffickers keep more than one victim this allows them to make hundreds of thousands of dollars a year. Trafficking can be organized into three distinct categories. Occasional traffickers, small, well-organized trafficking rings, and organized, international trafficking networks. Occasional traffickers usually reside near or in border regions. They usually own some form of small transportation, boats, trucks or taxis. They can help transport the victims or small groups from one point on a coast across poorly secured borders. The well organized small rings become experts at trafficking from one specific country consistently using the same routes. The most dangerous and sophisticated are the organized international groups. They usually can make and produce or have access to stolen or falsified documents. They change their