Sociology 2259 Chapter Notes - Chapter online: Cn Police, Inflectional Phrase, Dcf Interframe Space
30 Apr 2018
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Trafficking in Persons in Canada, 2014:
• Trafficking in persons/ human trafficking- complex phenomenon can occur domestically/
across internat boarders and can take many forms
• Trafficking in persons- someone recruits, transports, transfers, receives, holds, conceals/
harbours a person/ exercises control, direction/ influence over movements person purpose
of exploiting them/ facilitating their exploitation
• Human trafficking victims often suffer emotional trauma, as well as economic, physical
and sexual abuse
• Scope dif ident due to hidden nature of crime, victim’s reluctance report crimes to
authorities, difs ident victims and high degree underreporting
• 2005, 3 specific offences added crim code part govs commitment combat human
trafficking and 2010 crim code amended include child trafficking offence and other
human trafficking rel provision
• Focus on exploitation victim and can be applied various forms that crime can take,
including victims being brought into CN from abroad, victims being transited through
CN to another country and victims originate from and exploited within CN
Highlights:
Rate of police-reported human trafficking violations nearly doubled between 2013 and 2014:
• 2014, CN police services reported 206 violation of human trafficking in CN, accounting
for less than 1% all police-reported incidents- less 1 police-rep violation very 100,000
CNs
• Slight decrease 2009-2010 police-reported number and rate cont increase- 2013-2014
nearly doubled (0.33/100,000 and 0.58/ 100,000)- may be infl improved reporting,
detecting and investigating
More than half of police-reported human trafficking incidents involve another offence:
• 2009-2014 506 police-reported incidents involved violation human trafficking- 279
(55%) involved at least one other violation, human trafficking most serious violation
majority incidents involved more than one violation (88%)
• 246 incidents trafficking most serious offence more one violation, 61% secondary
violation prostitution-rel
• 33 police-reported incidents not most serious, commonly rel kidnapping/ forcible
confinement (36%), sexual assault (level 1) (18%) and assault (all levels) (18%)
Victims of police-reported human trafficking are mostly young, mostly women:
• 2009-2014 396 victims police-rep trafficking- vast majority F (93%)
• Victims gen young- close to half b/w ages 18-24, ¼ under age 18
• Majority knew person accused of crime- most common relationship b/w victim and
accused business relationship, followed by casual acquaintance and non-spousal intimate
partner
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