CRIM 1400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Demand Reduction, Transnational Organized Crime, List Of Roads In Amman
6 Jun 2018
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Limitations of the Criminal Justice Response
● Look at only one type of victim
● Reactive vs. proactive responses
● Number of investigations remains low
● Reliance on victim statements
● Routine activities of law enforcement may be inadequate to address human trafficking in
its many forms
● Monitoring private sector is considered a traditional duty of local law enforcement
Market Based Resolutions
● Hotel staff trainings
● Airline staff
● Tourism industry: code of conduct to protect children from sexual exploitation (ECPAT)
● California transparency act
● Technology against human trafficking
● Finance against human trafficking
Why is Human Trafficking a Corporate Responsibility?
● Intersects with the private sector through supply chains, logistics, and finance
● Legit businesses that may have resources to combat illegal businesses
● 1st circle: corporate offenders
○ 2nd circle: active contributors
■ 3rd circle: witting participants
● 4th circle: involuntary participants
Can’t we use the CJ system to address corporate wrongdoing?
● We can:
○ UN convention against transnational organized crime includes corporate criminal
liability
○ Several firms have faced criminal (or civil) procedures for involvement in sex and
labor trafficking
○ FOSTA law: holding websites/corporations responsible for facilitating commercial
sex trafficking
● But:
○ Limited enforcement in domestic laws and regulations and corporations often do
not face criminal charges under domestic law
○ Concerns about potential adverse impacts of corporate liability on business and
trade relations
○ What about businesses unwittingly facilitate the crime?
○ Is a criminal justice response effective?
Different Roles in Human Trafficking; Different Roles in Anti-Trafficking Responses
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Document Summary
Look at only one type of victim. Routine activities of law enforcement may be inadequate to address human trafficking in its many forms. Monitoring private sector is considered a traditional duty of local law enforcement. Tourism industry: code of conduct to protect children from sexual exploitation (ecpat) Intersects with the private sector through supply chains, logistics, and finance. Legit businesses that may have resources to combat illegal businesses. Un convention against transnational organized crime includes corporate criminal liability. Several firms have faced criminal (or civil) procedures for involvement in sex and labor trafficking. Fosta law: holding websites/corporations responsible for facilitating commercial sex trafficking. Limited enforcement in domestic laws and regulations and corporations often do not face criminal charges under domestic law. Concerns about potential adverse impacts of corporate liability on business and trade relations. Different roles in human trafficking; different roles in anti-trafficking responses. Further developing market based responses against sex and labor trafficking.
