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Literature Review-Sarah Dunn-1
Literature Review-Sarah Dunn-1
Sarah Dunn
ENC 1102
Professor Wolcott
06 April 15
Literature Review
The results in this study clearly support the hypothesis of a general lacking and
misunderstanding of just how serious the issue is. The government has a
tremendous amount of power that can be used ultimately any way they choose.
The choice of seriously finding ways to prevent and reduce the number of people
imprisoned in slavery today has not yet been made by the government. The article
discusses key elements that have yet to be made but are necessary to end the war
once and for all. Governments, NGOs, and international organizations have
existing issues that have affected their involvement and cooperation with one
another. These issues they have must first be resolved before the true goal of
prevention can be solved or discussed. Many institutions that arent ran by the
government have little capacity or power to seek out the necessary steps for
prevention. Overall goals for achieving prevention may be thoroughly described
and planned whereas the execution and monitoring of the steps to get there are
often omitted.
Although this article was very specific in its location of where human trafficking
is, whereas the conversation discusses prevention strategies for the current issue
rather than location, the article proves that there is a serious lack of training and
monitoring when it comes to law enforcement worldwide. If more states and
governments were to take in account that proper training must be given to those
who must detect whether or not someone is a victim of this inhumane act, then
more prevention and saving could be done. There seems to be a lack of
involvement and a lack of care, which is imperative to combating such a fastgrowing and dangerous business.
In this academic journal produced by author Laura Lederer, Founder and CEO of
Global Centurion, Former Senior Advisor on Trafficking in Persons with the U.S.
State Department discusses the recurring Trafficking Victims Protection Act of
20002 in the United States as well as the U.N. Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and
Punish Trafficking in Persons analyzes the attempts made to prevent human
trafficking. Lederer provides the reader with a model of the sex trafficking market
today. The triangle is provided to see the place in which the TVPA lacks the
proper involvement needed to reduce this issue. The act only focuses on one side
of the triangle, which is the supply side, which are the women, men, and children
who are trapped in slavery today. However, the TVPA fails to address the root of
The results of this study coincide with the hypothesis that there is a serious
disconnection in associating that victims have been stripped of their basic human
rights and along with that they have faced a great deal of emotional and physical
trauma. They cannot function within the world after being a victim without some
guidance and overall protection of their wellbeing. The provisions proposed by
the researcher would greatly help to combat and prevent human slavery compared
to the laws readily in place.
Taken altogether, the results indicate that there is a serious revision that must be
done to existing acts held in place, as well as, new ones that must be produced to
help to fully prevent and eradicate this ongoing war against human slavery. The
Future research that should take place within this topic is the overall
improvements of current and upcoming laws to prevent modern-day slavery. The
research should focus primarily on the U.S. governments overall lack of
monitoring and general understanding of the way in which human slavery serves
as an injustice of human rights and not as a criminal offense has prohibited it
from primarily achieving its goal of prosecution, protection, and prevention.
Surveys would be distributed to government officials, NGOs, and other
institutions inquiring their knowledge on the topic as well as their knowledge on
the behavior of victims of human trafficking, as well as their knowledge on how
traffickers behave. The quiz would also pose the question of whether or not they
believe that modern-day slavery is an infringement on a persons basic human
rights. This information would then be gathered and analyzed to see ways in
which they could be resolved to improve the flawed systems now in place.