Responding to Human Trafficking : : Sex, Gender, and Culture in the Law / / Alicia W. Peters.

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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG and UP eBook Package 2000-2015
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Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2015]
©2016
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
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Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.) :; 4 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • PART I. TRAFFICKING ON THE BOOKS
  • Chapter 1. A Dichotomy Emerges
  • PART II. THINKING, ENVISIONING, AND INTERPRETING TRAFFICKING
  • Chapter 2. The Experts Make Sense of the Law
  • Chapter 3. "Things Th at Involve Sex Are Just Different"
  • Chapter 4. Defining Trafficking Through Survivor Experience
  • PART III. THE LAW IN ACTION
  • Chapter 5. Intersections on the Ground
  • Chapter 6. Moving the Antitrafficking Response Forward
  • Appendix A. Data Archiving Requirements and Threats to Confidentiality
  • Appendix B. Interviewees Quoted in the Text
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments