CRIM 1400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Sex Trafficking, Transnational Organized Crime, Free Market
6 Jun 2018
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● Few studies show link with trafficking and terrorism, but people still want to emphasize it
Globalization
● Market liberalization
● Privatization
● Free market / ideology for markets
● Global movement / migration
● Devaluation of cheap labor
● Might be easier to get around national authorities due to market liberalization
● Those in favor of market liberalization are generally not in favor of large government
intervention int HT
● Trying to come up with international standard
● Low wages and antiquated regulations
● Cheap labor becomes a normalized practice
Migration
● Internal
○ Rural → urban
● External
● “Trafficking is a crime most often perpetrated against undocumented migrants” -
Aronowitz
○ If this is the case, then why is it the case?
● Link negative immigration sentiment and public support for prioritization of trafficking
policies?
○ People support trafficking policies regardless of what they think of immigration
● Next asked who is at risk for trafficking?
○ People with negative sentiments against immigrants thought immigrants were
most likely to be trafficked
○ Also thought that services for migrant trafficked people should not be a priority
Development Issue
● Social deprivation, poverty, inequality, social disadvantage
● But, not only the poor are trafficked
● Ex: case in northern VA
○ Ongoing for about a year
○ High school students who had no problems in school or at home were involved in
trafficking ring
○ Would invite people into group of friends, but those initiated would begin working
as prostitutes
Gender
● UN protocol to prevent, suppress and punish trafficking in persons especially women
and children, supplementing the UN convention against transnational organized crime
● 45% are not women and girls
Illicit Markets
● Similarities to other illicit markets: e.g. narcotics/weapons trafficking
● Forced labor generates about $150 billion each year
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