Multidisciplinary Response To Human Trafficking Summary
A Case for a Multidisciplinary Response to Human Trafficking
Literature Review
Steven M. Dyer
NOVA Southeastern University
Criminal Justice Institute
Introduction
This literature review will explore the victimology of human trafficking. Specifically it will address human trafficking victims from the United States and those who originated from outside the United States. The literature will attempt to show that low socioeconomic status and prior illegal drug use by the victims contribute to the victimology of human trafficking. As a result of the findings, this literature review will endeavor to offer a holistic, community-based response to the victims of human trafficking by creating a multidisciplinary, biopsychosocial …show more content…
But the predominant sex of victims are female and they are being moved from throughout the world to various locations where they will be sold or used by their traffickers. But the majority of sex trafficking victims are being imported from former Soviet Union countries (Daigle, 2013).
The first federal legislation in the United States aimed at combatting the crime of human trafficking occurred in (United States Congress, 2000) where the Congress said that human trafficking is a transnational crime affecting victims from all over the world in the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (TVPA). The Congress identified the “unalienable rights” guaranteed in the Declaration of Independence which includes the right to be free from slavery and involuntary servitude.
A common definition of human trafficking was codified under this law which defines human trafficking as, “the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for one of three …show more content…
This research attempts to show the causal link between prior drug use and the increased chance of becoming a victim of human trafficking. When writing the original legislation referred to earlier as TVPA 2000, the United States Congress discussed a number of issues which a victim of human trafficking may present, one of which was drug dependency. However there is no indication from their statement that the victim ever engaged in drug use prior to becoming the victim of human traffickers. As stated earlier, the use of TVPA 2000 was done for background information only. It was not intended as research, but to provide a foundation for the problem as a whole. A review of the Comprehensive Human Trafficking Victim Questionnaire provided by the National Human Trafficking Resource Center reveals no questions related to the prior drug use of the victims being interviewed (Polaris Project, 2014). This questionnaire is intended to be used by those working with victims shortly after their extrication from the hands of the captors. Therefore it is probably not appropriate for the addition of such background questions which would assist researchers in determining a method of addressing the community needs to prevent those who are vulnerable to human traffickers from becoming victims. Therefore a follow-up questionnaire must be developed by researchers in an effort to establish the necessary information to
Literature Review
Steven M. Dyer
NOVA Southeastern University
Criminal Justice Institute
Introduction
This literature review will explore the victimology of human trafficking. Specifically it will address human trafficking victims from the United States and those who originated from outside the United States. The literature will attempt to show that low socioeconomic status and prior illegal drug use by the victims contribute to the victimology of human trafficking. As a result of the findings, this literature review will endeavor to offer a holistic, community-based response to the victims of human trafficking by creating a multidisciplinary, biopsychosocial …show more content…
But the predominant sex of victims are female and they are being moved from throughout the world to various locations where they will be sold or used by their traffickers. But the majority of sex trafficking victims are being imported from former Soviet Union countries (Daigle, 2013).
The first federal legislation in the United States aimed at combatting the crime of human trafficking occurred in (United States Congress, 2000) where the Congress said that human trafficking is a transnational crime affecting victims from all over the world in the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (TVPA). The Congress identified the “unalienable rights” guaranteed in the Declaration of Independence which includes the right to be free from slavery and involuntary servitude.
A common definition of human trafficking was codified under this law which defines human trafficking as, “the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for one of three …show more content…
This research attempts to show the causal link between prior drug use and the increased chance of becoming a victim of human trafficking. When writing the original legislation referred to earlier as TVPA 2000, the United States Congress discussed a number of issues which a victim of human trafficking may present, one of which was drug dependency. However there is no indication from their statement that the victim ever engaged in drug use prior to becoming the victim of human traffickers. As stated earlier, the use of TVPA 2000 was done for background information only. It was not intended as research, but to provide a foundation for the problem as a whole. A review of the Comprehensive Human Trafficking Victim Questionnaire provided by the National Human Trafficking Resource Center reveals no questions related to the prior drug use of the victims being interviewed (Polaris Project, 2014). This questionnaire is intended to be used by those working with victims shortly after their extrication from the hands of the captors. Therefore it is probably not appropriate for the addition of such background questions which would assist researchers in determining a method of addressing the community needs to prevent those who are vulnerable to human traffickers from becoming victims. Therefore a follow-up questionnaire must be developed by researchers in an effort to establish the necessary information to