Women and children last: The prosecution of sex traffickers as sex offenders and the need for a sex trafficker registry

dc.contributor.authorBrown, Geneva
dc.date.accessioned2019-10-15T17:26:27Z
dc.date.available2019-10-15T17:26:27Z
dc.date.issued2011
dc.description.abstractSex trafficking is a moral and legal tragedy that affects thousands in the United States and abroad. The U.S. State Department estimates that human traffickers bring between 14,500 and 17,500 persons annually into the United States for various avenues of exploitation, including involuntary servitude and forced prostitution. Human traffickers are highly organized into criminal syndicates that reap exponential profits exploiting vulnerable women and children. Individual states struggle to prosecute traffickers and must rely on federal prosecution of trafficking enterprises. International cooperation with local law enforcement is essential in combating trafficking, especially in the sex trade. This Article proposes that an international database be maintained to track the whereabouts of prosecuted traffickers, similar to the sex offender registry in the United States. Like the U.S. sex offender laws, which seek to dramatically decrease recidivism among sex offenders, an international registry could have a deterrent effect on trafficking. Limiting and monitoring the travel of convicted traffickers would be a new avenue that international law enforcement and governing bodies could use to contain the pernicious practice of trafficking. (Author Abstract)en_US
dc.identifier.citationBrown, Geneva. (2011). Women and children last: The prosecution of sex traffickers as sex offenders and the need for a sex trafficker registry. Boston College Third World Law Journal, 31, 1-40.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://lawdigitalcommons.bc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1001&context=twlj  
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11212/4508
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherBoston College Third World Law Journalen_US
dc.subjectchild abuseen_US
dc.subjectcommercial exploitationen_US
dc.subjectCSECen_US
dc.subjectinterventionen_US
dc.subjectpreventionen_US
dc.subjectlegislationen_US
dc.subjectpolicyen_US
dc.subjectoverviewen_US
dc.titleWomen and children last: The prosecution of sex traffickers as sex offenders and the need for a sex trafficker registryen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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