NCJ Number
195061
Journal
Journal of Financial Crime Volume: 9 Issue: 2 Dated: November 2001 Pages: 165-177
Date Published
November 2001
Length
13 pages
Annotation
This article presents a review of human trafficking for the sex industry reviewed from the criminal justice, immigration, and employment or economic perspectives.
Abstract
The author investigates the process of moving women and children, both voluntarily and involuntarily, across national borders as part of prostitution enterprises. The author notes the scope of the problem in Europe and the trend of the increased use of children and Eastern European nationals in such human trafficking. Recruitment methods, economic pressures that encourage recruitment, methods of control post-recruitment, and the organized crime involvement in the practices are discussed. Case studies are presented. International law responses to the problem are discussed and the existing conventions are contrasted with the more stringent legal standards applied to illicit monetary trafficking (money laundering). The profit motive inherent in the practice is used to argue that this trafficking is a financial crime. Discussions of the prosecution of the underlying financial crimes included in human trafficking for prostitution enterprises as a method of controlling or curtailing the practice are presented, specifically including money laundering charges and civil forfeiture proceedings. 119 notes