Responding to Human Trafficking: Sex, Gender, and Culture in the Law

by Alicia W. Peters

Book Overview

Signed into law in 2000, the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA) defined the crime of human trafficking and brought attention to an issue previously unknown to most Americans. But while human trafficking is widely considered a serious and despicable crime, there has been far less consensus as to how to approach the problem--owing in part to a pervasive emphasis on forced prostitution that overshadows repugnant practices in other labor sectors...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812224213
• ISBN13: 9780812224214
• Release Date: April 2018
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"