Good point livewire, for me, the causes of trafficking run from social injustice to poverty and wind their way through plain no hopesville with a detour to just-plain-evils-burg. I'm not sure I have the answer. And like you I try to avoid the 'come down on 'em hard' approach. Lotsa hard luck and desperation behind the minor in the centre, and boy do they need protecting. Gonna be a bit harder on the perps though. Despite good robust brain studies about "lacking empathy" or "moral centre shut down" a lot of them are sentient about the risks. Lock em away, rehabilitate or execute according to your politics. I err on the rehab side, that's my job, the execute side are just plain ignorant about brain structure I am sure.

 

Boy, that's an interesting question.

I wonder sometimes if either the old way or the new way are truly effective ways of eliminating the trafficking of minors.

Perhaps a deterrent, but I wonder sometimes if this trafficking issue runs much deeper than what these punitive ways of deterrence can actually accomplish and eliminate.

nwlivewire