http://sexinthepublicsquare.org/taxonomy/term/1094 The taxonomy view with a depth of 0. en http://sexinthepublicsquare.org/MichaelsBlog/When-is-trafficking-not-trafficking <p>Americans will be familiar with the hunt-the-needle-in-the-haystack approach of the State and Justice Departments in looking for victims of human trafficking. Jerry Markon exposed the hiatus between the actual evidence and the claims in <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/22/AR2007092201401.html">an article in the Washington Post</a>. The resources utilised for the yield obtained resembled the hunt for weapons of mass destruction. </p> <p>The equivalent in the United Kingdom is the Police and <a href="http://www.ukhtc.org/">UK Human Trafficking Centre</a> operations known as <a href="http://www.pentameter.police.uk/">Pentameter</a>. This week&#39;s <a href="http://ukpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5gOLEGryjuid9kklkGY_lr4aCJAjg">release of figures from the second operation</a> triggered off the predictable moral panic and demand for more funding to combat this terrible menace. When Benjamin Disraeli decried the mesmerising effects of numbers &quot;There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics&quot; he may have been considering this sort of agenda driven political spin. </p> <p><a href="http://sexinthepublicsquare.org/MichaelsBlog/When-is-trafficking-not-trafficking">read more</a></p> http://sexinthepublicsquare.org/MichaelsBlog/When-is-trafficking-not-trafficking#comments child prostitution criminalising purchase human trafficking sex work Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:43:02 -0700 Michael 705 at http://sexinthepublicsquare.org