The Consequences Of The Psychology Of Human Trafficking In Psychology

Human Trafficking in Psychology Human trafficking is the exploiting of humans for some kind of reward or benefit. This trafficking is considered as today’s modern slavery. This social issue has become this way because it is widely known but kept secreted from society. This is for many reasons, one being that society only wants to see the good and not the bad. The issue of human trafficking has been around for a long time and there are so many different forms of trafficking yet most people only know about sex slavery.

How Human Trafficking Succeeds

Human Trafficking is able to form and strive because before one becomes a trafficker they see that other people can easily get away with it, so one would recognize the success of the other traffickers. The victim’s vulnerability is completely abused when they are taken. This means that since the victim are under the traffickers they are easy to take advantage of because they have to submit to their threatener/trafficker. In the reference entry Human Trafficking it says, “Most human trafficking victims are women and girls”.

Human Trafficking is a very large social issue that is very well hidden and kept secret. The first instance of any international attention being brought to the issue of human trafficking was in 1949 by the United Nations. “According to Helton (2016), Congress found that “millions of people every year, primarily women and children, are trafficked within or across international borders.”” This quote shows that human trafficking was a big social issue internationally and needed to be brought to the attention of everyone. In the Health Matrix: Journal of Law-Medicine, it also says “Congress found that 50,000 women and children were trafficked into the United States each year.” (Helton 2016) Human trafficking being like that in the U.S. made Congress strive to have some kind of system against