NC BLET State Exam - INVESTIGATION UNIT SG
It is estimated that as many as ________________ men, women, and children around the world are victims of what is now often described with the umbrella term, "human trafficking."
27 million
How much is the amount of profit generated each year by human t...
NC BLET State Exam - INVESTIGATION
UNIT SG
It is estimated that as many as ________________ men, women, and children
around the world are victims of what is now often described with the umbrella
term, "human trafficking."
27 million
How much is the amount of profit generated each year by human trafficking?
BILLIONS
What is, commonly referred to "modern slavery", a global phenomenon that
involves obtaining or maintaining the labor or services of another through the
use of force, fraud, or coercion in violation of an individual's human rights?
Human Trafficking
What are the three ways through which human trafficking is carried out?
Through (1) FRAUD, (2) FORCE, (3) COERCION
True or False? Any person over the age of eighteen who performs a commercial
sex act is considered a victim of human trafficking, regardless of whether force,
fraud, or coercion were present.
False, UNDER the age of 18
What act strengthened federal laws that prohibit human trafficking, created
immigration relief for victims, and authorized benefits for those who qualify?
The Trafficking Victims Protection Act
What is the NC Definition of Human Trafficking?
In reckless disregard of the consequences of the action, knowingly recruits, entices,
harbors, transports, provides, or obtains by any means another person with the intent
that the other person be held in involuntary servitude or sexual servitude OR willfully or
in reckless disregard of the consequences of the action causes a minor to be held in
involuntary servitude or sexual servitude
An action that is not voluntary; one cannot consent to this
Trafficking
An action that is voluntary; an individual typically contracts to be transported in
this manner
Smuggling
An individual need not be beaten or restrained physically to be a ____________.
Victim
Examples of ways in which traffickers may coerce or control victims include......
Confiscate passports, visas, or other identification documents, threaten victims with
arrest or deportation, threaten to harm or kill family, move victims from location to
location to location effectively disorienting them and rendering them unable to locate
assistance, etc.
Victims may be reluctant to escape for the following reasons:
Fear of LEO, choose to remain in situation for fear of potential retribution against their
family, may not see themselves as victims b/c they do not know their rights
Examples of labor or services in which traffickers exploit humans:
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