Académique Documents
Professionnel Documents
Culture Documents
During Trial
● First interaction w/police
● Intimidation
● Too few interviews not comfortable, too many and look at changes, discredit
Medical Problems
● Broken bones, STDs, PTSD, suicidal thoughts, drug addictions, insomnia
Local Org
● Samaritan House, VBJI
US vs. UK
● 136k victims in UK, 800 British citizens (about 16% of identified victims)
● UK currently doesn’t have a lot of laws, uses EU regulations
● Don’t provide adequate training (TIP Report)
● 66 million population in UK vs. 325 million population US (5x more)
Things to be done
● Like Northam signing a law denying trafficking suspects from bail
● More T Visas (Trump put more restrictions/qualifications) (672 issued 2017, 100
less than 2016)
● Victim Service Funding
● Law Enforcement Training (only 18% have training, 9% have protocols, 7% have
investigated cases)
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References
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Batchelor, T. (2017, May 9). Road to brexit: Leaving EU could make it 'impossible' to tackle human trafficking, warn campaigners. Retrieved December 20, 2018, from https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-human-trafficking-impossible-eu-police-not-protect-slavery-people-abuse-victims-court-justice-a7689766.html
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