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2002 Utah L. Rev. 107 (2002)
The Saga of Susannah - A U.S. Remedy for Sex Trafficking in Women: The Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act of 2000

handle is hein.journals/utahlr2002 and id is 119 raw text is: The Saga of Susannah A U.S. Remedy for Sex Trafficking in Women: The Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act of 2000* Susan Tiefenbrun* TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. INTRODUCTION ............................................ 109 A . A N arrative ........................................... 109 B. Subtext of the Narrative ................................. 111 C. Organization of Article .................................. 115 II. THE PROBLEM OF SEX TRAFFICKING .......................... 116 A. Methods of Sex Trafficking .............................. 116 B. Definition of Sex Trafficking as Slavery, the Meaning of Force, and the Role of Consent ................................. 120 C. Feminists. Debate Sex Trafficking .......................... 123 D. Critical Race Theorists Debate Cultural Relativism ........... 124 E. Statistics on Trafficking ................................. 126 F. Countries Engaged in Trafficking ......................... 127 G. History of Trafficking ................................... 131 H. Some Causes of the Increase in Trafficking .................. 131 I. Role of International Crime Organizations in Trafficking ....... 136 J. Profits from the Industry of Sex Trafficking .................. 139 K. Global Consequences of Sex Trafficking .................... 143 *This Article is a revised and expanded version of a paper presented at the American Branch of the International Law Association International Law Weekend 2000 held at the House of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York on October 26-28, 2000. A related paper on the trafficking of sex workers was also presented at the Women in the Law Annual Conference on February 15,2001, at Thomas Jefferson School of Law. Sex Sells But Drugs Don't Talk. Trafficking of Women Sex Workers and An Economic Solution will be published in the Thomas Jefferson Law Review in Spring 2002. I would like to thank Dorothy Hampton and Patrick Meyer, research librarians at Thomas Jefferson School of Law, for their invaluable assistance in obtaining documents. I would also like to thank my research assistant, Jane Conners, for her able assistance in researching and editing this manuscript. Special thanks to Professors Linda Berger, Julie Greenberg, and Susan Bisom-Rapp at Thomas Jefferson School of Law, and Professor Elizabeth F. Defeis of Seton Hall University School of Law for their willingness to read this work in draft. -Associate Professor of Law, Thomas Jefferson School of Law.

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