Cjus 601 Policy Issue And Solution Paper

Policy Issue and Solution: Human Trafficking and ExploitationStudent Name: Jude AkinleyimuCourse: CJUS 601 - B02Instructor: Prof. Frank T. WhitehurstDate: 6/18/2016Human Trafficking and ExploitationIdentification and Discussion of the ProblemHuman trafficking is a serious crime that violates human rights as countless men, women, and children are trafficked at mother-country and abroad. Human trafficking involves recruiting, transporting, or transferring people illegally, which includes using threats and force among other forms of fraud, coercion, deception, and abduction. The goal of human trafficking is to have control over the trafficked in order to exploit them. Forms of exploitation varies, for example sexual exploitation (such as prostitution), slavery, removal of organs, or forced labor and services. Some traffickers offer the trafficked as spouses to marriages thus forming a forced marriage while others extract human organs for purposes like ova removal and surrogacy among other uses. Human trafficking violates one’s right of movement as the victim is coerced and exploited commercially. Human trafficking has three elements: the act, the means, and the purpose. In 2008, the U.N. stated that an estimated 2.5 million people were trafficked to other