CRIM 1400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Dark Web
6 Jun 2018
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FOSTA Law
● Law makes it easier to investigate and prosecute organizations behind websites that
facilitate sex trafficking
● Legislator from Oregon voted against it because he thought it would just cause
trafficking to go to the dark web and make it harder for sex traffickers to be prosecuted
Protecting Victims
● 3Ps
○ Protection, prevention, prosecution
○ +Partnerships
● What did we already cover?
○ Human trafficking has been framed as a problem involving organized criminals
and sex trafficking victims
○ One paper on smuggling, one on trafficking
■ Emphasizes focus on illegal immigration
○ Iconic framing is a problem, why?
■ Most literature about organized crime frame
■ 1. Obscures relationship between migration policy and ‘trafficking’
■ 2. Obscures relationship between prostitution policy and forced labor in
the commercial sex industry
○ Intro to trafficking and health
■ Risk factors for CSEC (commercial exploitation of children)
● Screening (identification) and assessments (figure out a plan for
that particular person)
● Which risk factors matter?
● Why is it important to know about risk factors?
■ Impact of sexual abuse is so big that it trumps impact of physical and/or
emotional abuse
■ Co-occurrence of different types of victimization increases risk
■ Running away, child maltreatment, early use of drugs and alcohol
● The iconic victim of human trafficking
○ Young, female
● Some observations by Davidson
○ Increasing awareness on human trafficking
○ Yet, small number of victims have actually been identified
○ Iconic victims do still exist
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Document Summary
Law makes it easier to investigate and prosecute organizations behind websites that facilitate sex trafficking. Legislator from oregon voted against it because he thought it would just cause trafficking to go to the dark web and make it harder for sex traffickers to be prosecuted. Human trafficking has been framed as a problem involving organized criminals and sex trafficking victims. One paper on smuggling, one on trafficking. Obscures relationship between prostitution policy and forced labor in the commercial sex industry. Risk factors for csec (commercial exploitation of children) Screening (identification) and assessments (figure out a plan for that particular person) Impact of sexual abuse is so big that it trumps impact of physical and/or emotional abuse. Co-occurrence of different types of victimization increases risk. Running away, child maltreatment, early use of drugs and alcohol. Yet, small number of victims have actually been identified.
