CRIM 1400 Lecture 19: Protecting Victims, Where are All the Victims
6 Jun 2018
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Protecting Victims: Where are all the victims?
● Why have US officials identified so few victims?
○ Finding out through understanding “how often and under what conditions police
find, investigate, and prosecute cases of human trafficking”
○ Prioritization local police vs. federal priorities
○ Even when local prioritize, difficulty identifying ‘on the street’
■ Look for iconic victims
○ Additional complications when dealing with foreign victims
○ Human trafficking cases are most “labor and time intensive matters undertaken
by the dept. of justice
○ Incoherency and inconsistency in victim testimonies
○ Routine approaches for newly defined crimes
○ Finding out through national law enforcement human trafficking survey
■ The findings of the survey
● Agency leader perception
● Agency preparation
○ Training of individual agencies
● Identification of human trafficking cases
● Community characteristics
■ No agencies think it’s a problem in their own communities
■ Larger agencies that thought it was more of a problem also had training, a
protocol, specialized units
● Predicting law enforcment identification of human trafficking cases
○ Perception
○ Training
○ Protocols
○ Specialized units
○ Community characteristics
○ All feed into identifaction, but protocols and perception most important
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Document Summary
Finding out through understanding how often and under what conditions police find, investigate, and prosecute cases of human trafficking . Even when local prioritize, difficulty identifying on the street". Additional complications when dealing with foreign victims. Human trafficking cases are most labor and time intensive matters undertaken by the dept. of justice. Finding out through national law enforcement human trafficking survey. No agencies think it"s a problem in their own communities. Larger agencies that thought it was more of a problem also had training, a protocol, specialized units. Predicting law enforcment identification of human trafficking cases.
