assignment 3

Countries all over the world have some kind of human trafficking. Human trafficking comes in many variations and is a serious crime. There is prostitution, sexual exploitation, forced labor, forms of slavery and evening the selling body parts (Human Trafficking, UNOCD). This is a critical destruction to human’s rights. People are vulnerable to being force into this crime. How do you commit the act of trafficking? You could recruit, transport, harbor, abduction, pressure or fraud someone into doing something that they are not willing to do of their own choice (Human Trafficking, UNODC). This is a serious crime and most of society looks down on people practicing the trafficking of humans. This is immoral to most people and they do not strive to participate in this crime. Society believes that this is degrading to the community.

Even with all the stigma of this crime it still happens daily. This is because sometimes people look away not wanting to get involved in such demeaning acts upon other humans. They will go with the saying that if you do not address it then maybe it will go away, believing that all humans want to live up to the control or morals that society has set. Friedrichs, Walsh, and Hemens wrote in Law and Society that social control is, “…any action, either deliberate or unconscious, that influences conduct toward conformity, whether or not the persons being influenced are aware of the process” (Friedrichs, Walsh, and Hemens, p. 116). The word control can be used as a noun or a verb and the meanings literally mean to force to you do something (Friedrichs et al., p. 116). Friedrichs, Walsh, and Hemens state that, “…social control is a much broader concept than the law because there are other informal mechanisms of ...

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...way that human trafficking is viewed. Not only the law has changed, but how society has view human trafficking. There are both negative and positive social control mechanisms regarding human trafficking. The social control in regards to human trafficking is going to determine the collapse or success that society allows. Hopefully the social control will allow for the collapse of human trafficking. Human trafficking is becoming a major issue and we as humans need to stand up to it, because any human should have the most basic right to be free!

Works Cited

Friedrichs, D. O., Walsh, A., & Hemens, C. (2013). Law and Society. New York: OXFORDCustom Publishing. P. 116-17.

Human Trafficking. (n.d.). United Nations Office On Drugs and Crime (UNODC). Retrieved April 3, 2014, from https://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/human-trafficking/what-is-human-trafficking.html?ref=menuside