"Testimony for Trafficking Bill, Rhode Island House Judiciary Committee, Oct 2009" by Donna M. Hughes, Dr.

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Testimony for Trafficking Bill, Rhode Island House Judiciary Committee, Oct 2009

(2009)

Donna M. Hughes, Dr.

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Abstract

I am here to support a trafficking bill that will do two things:

1) Criminalize forced labor as a form of human trafficking.

2) Make it easier to prosecute sex trafficking of minors by removing the requirement to prove force, fraud, or coercion.

Keywords

forced labor,
human trafficking,
law,
bill,
Rhode Island,
sex trafficking

Disciplines

Law,
Criminal Law,
Law and Economics,
Law and Gender,
Law and Politics,
Law and Society,
Rule of Law,
State and Local Government Law,
Social Work,
Sociology,
Criminology,
Gender and Sexuality,
Inequality and Stratification and
Social Control, Law, Crime, and Deviance

Publication Date

October 27, 2009

Citation Information

Hughes, Donna M. (2009, October 27). Testimony on trafficking bill, Rhode Island House Judiciary Committee. Rhode Island: Citizens Against Trafficking.

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