the determinants of human trafficking a us case study

In this paper, I seek to find the determinants of international human trafficking by using the US as a case study. Previous studies have drawn primarily from the migration literature, proposing hypotheses that focus on economic factors, the level of democracy and other "push" factors in the countries of origin that create incentives for ...

Human trafficking is a global problem. In this paper, I seek to find the determinants of international human trafficking by using the US as a case study. Previous studies have drawn primarily from ...

The Determinants of Human Trafficking: A US Case Study (Article) Jac-Kucharski A.* a Department of Political Science, University of California, Davis, United States Abstract. Human trafficking is a global problem. In this paper, I seek to find the determinants of international human trafficking by using the US as a case study. Previous studies ...

Human trafficking is a global problem. In this paper, I seek to find the determinants of international human trafficking by using the US as a case study. Previous studies have drawn primarily from the migration literature, proposing hypotheses that focus on economic factors, the level of democracy and other "push" factors in the countries of origin that create incentives for individuals to ...

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Human trafficking (eg, compulsory forced labor or commercial sex or involvement of a minor in commercial sex acts) 1 is a public health issue that results from interconnected factors at societal, community, family, and individual levels. 2,3 Traffickers disproportionately target populations at risk of exploitation, including people who have experienced or been exposed to other forms of ...

Human trafficking remains one of the most pervasive criminal activities worldwide, including in the United States. Much of the research on human trafficking in the U.S. has been limited, focusing primarily on individual-level factors, providing victim assistance, or with a few exceptions, examining the role of structural characteristics on

Introduction. This paper presents a comprehensive review of current literature on human trafficking into and within the United States. This review of the literature is part of a larger study funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, to examine how HHS programs are currently addressing the needs of victims of ...

Twenty years after the passage of the Palermo Protocol 1 and the United States' Trafficking Victims Protection Act, 2 policy makers, service providers, and researchers have designed intervention programs, enacted legal remedies, and completed research studies on human trafficking (hereinafter, trafficking). Human trafficking occurs when a trafficker compels someone to provide labor or ...

This study examined the determinants for law enforcement in identifying human trafficking victims. Abstract Results indicate that between 2000 and 2006, 9.7 percent of police agencies in the United States reported investigating at least one case of human trafficking.

1. Introduction. Human trafficking is a recognized human rights violation, and a public health and global development issue. Target 8.7 of the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals calls for states to take immediate and effective measures to eradicate trafficking, forced labour and modern slavery (Griggs et al., 2013).Human trafficking has been defined by the United Nations' Palermo Protocol as ...

Human trafficking is a global problem. In this paper, I seek to find the determinants of international human trafficking by using the US as a case study. Previous studies have drawn primarily from the migration literature, proposing hypotheses that focus on economic factors, the level of democracy and other "push" factors in the countries of origin that create incentives for individuals to ...

Over time, as her own understanding grew and as the effects of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000—the first comprehensive federal law to address human trafficking—filtered down to the clinic, Chang redefined these patients as victims, forced by poverty or isolation into a life of servitude, often trading sex for money or drugs.

model identifying the determinants of human trafficking, unlike studies in more established. fields such as economic growth, poverty, and governance. Thus, the choice of variables for. estimation tends to depend on subjective judgments rather than selecting factors which have. already been examined in the literature.

Human Trafficking is an atrocious crime that represents a gross assault on human rights and the United Nations states that it is among the fast growing types of criminal activity. Recognizing the need for counteractive measures, in 2000, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and its Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking ...

Human trafficking involves the use of force, fraud, or coercion to compel another person to perform labor or a sex act for the profit of a third person. Victims can be adults or children, foreign or domestic born. The trafficking can involve purely labor or purely commercial sex or can be a blend of both.

This study aims to identify robust push and pull factors of human trafficking. I test for the robustness of 70 push and 63 pull factors suggested in the literature. In doing so, I employ an extreme bound analysis, running more than two million regressions with all possible combinations of variables for up to 153 countries during the period of 1995-2010. My results show that crime prevalence ...

This study examined the determinants for law enforcement in identifying human trafficking victims. ... 9.7 percent of police agencies in the United States reported investigating at least one case of human trafficking. Larger agencies were more likely to identify cases of human trafficking, but the agency leader perception about the problem in ...

Human trafficking is a global problem. In this paper, I seek to find the determinants of international human trafficking by using the US as a case study. Previous studies have drawn primarily from the migration literature, proposing hypotheses that focus on economic factors, the level of democracy and other "push" factors in the countries ...

2.3. Crime. While human trafficking is associated with certain pat-terns of migration, it is, at the same time, a crime in-volving the illegal transportation of people and exploi-tation of them (UN, 2000). In fact, human trafficking occurs only if there are perpetrators exploiting vulner-able migrants.

(DOI: 10.1111/J.1468-2435.2012.00777.X) Human trafficking is a global problem. In this paper, I seek to find the determinants of international human trafficking by using the US as a case study. Previous studies have drawn primarily from the migration literature, proposing hypotheses that focus on economic factors, the level of democracy and other "push" factors in the countries of origin ...

"The National Human Trafficking Hotline identified over 10,000 cases of human trafficking in 2021, of which more than 8,000 cases involved female victims and survivors," said Dorothy Fink, M.D., Deputy Assistant Secretary for Women's Health and Director of the Office on Women's Health.

The fight against human trafficking looks back on 100 years of transnational legal effort. The 1926 Slavery Convention is the first of many international conventions against the trade of human beings implemented during the twentieth century. In the course of increased awareness for transnational crime the OECD and EU member countries made the eradication of human trafficking a priority issue ...

The determinants of human trafficking: a US case study 157. The second model in the analysis includes all of the factors that I predict play a role in the traf- ficker's cost-benefit calculus. The first worthwhile variable accounts for the networks that exist between the source and destination states.