According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) there are multiple groups that traffic women (Cullen-DuPont). One factor that comes into play a lot with human trafficking is gender. Statistics show that women are the most trafficked; followed by children by which one in ever 6 are boys. Adult men are trafficked, but not nearly as much as women and children. With human trafficking people can be trafficked through places ranging from people's homes to a nationwide network. In the United States most victims are found in brothels, strip clubs, private homes, fields, factories, and street corners. .
There are many different types of human trafficking. One of the biggest types is sexual exploitation. About 98% of people trafficked into sexual exploitation are female and 2% are male. The U.S. 2005 Tip Report said that the legalization of prostitution would increase the amount of trafficking women. Today most cases of women are being trafficked into prostitution through debt bondage. Which is where a person is set up into an arrangement where they have to pay off a loan with labor instead of money. Their traffickers also hold them through sexual force and violence. For example in the trial U.S. vs. Maksimenko two men were trafficking at least nine women from Russia and Ukraine, held in servitude as exotic dancers in their Michigan strip clubs. The men were holding these women captive through the use of force. They are also trafficked through their own families, traffickers tell the daughter's parents that they can have an extremely better life compared to the poverty they are already in. .
Forms of Human Trafficking.
There are a few different forms of human trafficking, but there are two that have been brought together by the use of the Internet; forced marriage and the sale of babies. In many poverty struck countries forced marriage are a common way for the parents to feel like they are pushing their child to a better life while getting paid for it at the same time.
