Human Trafficking Final Study Guide
Victim Interaction
• Avoid victimizing; calling prostitute
• Offer breaks
• Make sure victim comfortable with interpreter
• Avoid taking notes in first interview
• Important Factors
• Non threatening clothing
• Conducting interview in neutral space
Trauma and Memory
• Memory is a coping skill
• Trauma overwhelms coping skills
• Organized in memory on perceptual or sensory level (images, smells, pain, taste)
• Give victim time to process information
If Foreign National Victim: do what?
• Contact ICE or FBI for support
• Continued Presence
• Certification (benefits)*
• T-Visa
Tier System : 3 tiers, of Human Trafficking in State Department (1-3)
• Tier 1 governments that fully comply with the TVPA’s standards for the elimination of trafficking.
• Tier 2 governments that do not fully comply with the TVPA’s minimum standards but are making significant efforts to do so
• Tier 3
Countries whose governments do not fully comply with the minimum standards and are not making significant efforts to do so
• What countries rating dropped to tier 2 last year because the legal age for prostitution dropped from 16 to 18? Switzerland Courtney’s House Presentation - History: Aug 2008,
• Tina Frundt – a victim of child sex trafficking
• Serves DC, Northern VA, Southern Maryland
• Intensive case management, educational assistance, survivor led CSEC support groups, trauma recovery counseling, and group therapy
• “track” , kiddie walk , blade, runway
Project Lantern (International Justice Mission)
What percentage of the time were the researchers in project lantern able to secure a liner for sex? 85%
• Five years after the study? What was the reduction? 79%
• Where did the study take place? Cebu, Phillippines
• Who funded the study? Gates Foundation
Recognize force, fraud, coercion
• Force:
Victim that has been kicked, slapped, abused, threatened for doing bad work or too slowly
• Fraud:
Job conditions the same as said?
• Avoid victimizing; calling prostitute
• Offer breaks
• Make sure victim comfortable with interpreter
• Avoid taking notes in first interview
• Important Factors
• Non threatening clothing
• Conducting interview in neutral space
Trauma and Memory
• Memory is a coping skill
• Trauma overwhelms coping skills
• Organized in memory on perceptual or sensory level (images, smells, pain, taste)
• Give victim time to process information
If Foreign National Victim: do what?
• Contact ICE or FBI for support
• Continued Presence
• Certification (benefits)*
• T-Visa
Tier System : 3 tiers, of Human Trafficking in State Department (1-3)
• Tier 1 governments that fully comply with the TVPA’s standards for the elimination of trafficking.
• Tier 2 governments that do not fully comply with the TVPA’s minimum standards but are making significant efforts to do so
• Tier 3
Countries whose governments do not fully comply with the minimum standards and are not making significant efforts to do so
• What countries rating dropped to tier 2 last year because the legal age for prostitution dropped from 16 to 18? Switzerland Courtney’s House Presentation - History: Aug 2008,
• Tina Frundt – a victim of child sex trafficking
• Serves DC, Northern VA, Southern Maryland
• Intensive case management, educational assistance, survivor led CSEC support groups, trauma recovery counseling, and group therapy
• “track” , kiddie walk , blade, runway
Project Lantern (International Justice Mission)
What percentage of the time were the researchers in project lantern able to secure a liner for sex? 85%
• Five years after the study? What was the reduction? 79%
• Where did the study take place? Cebu, Phillippines
• Who funded the study? Gates Foundation
Recognize force, fraud, coercion
• Force:
Victim that has been kicked, slapped, abused, threatened for doing bad work or too slowly
• Fraud:
Job conditions the same as said?