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Trafficking in persons is a multi-faceted global epidemic which has seen a significant increase in public awareness. However, there is a substantial need to expand capacities and technologies involving representatives from all stakeholders.
This webinar was presented by the NIJ Forensic Technology Center of Excellence on November 1, 2018.
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Identifying victims of human trafficking has a unique set of obstacles, often compounded by language barriers or the victim’s unwillingness to work with law enforcement. Uncovering even the most basic information about victims, both alive and dead, can be a challenge. John P. Kenney, D.D.S., discussed a method for using teeth to determine the ages of unknown victims in this presentation.
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Identifying victims of human trafficking has a unique set of obstacles, often compounded by language barriers or the victim’s unwillingness to work with law enforcement. Uncovering even the most basic information about victims, both alive and dead, can be a challenge. John P. Kenney, D.D.S., discussed a method for using teeth to determine the ages of unknown victims in this presentation.
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NIJ’s Human Trafficking Research Portfolio funds research on sex and labor trafficking of adults and children in the United States, including topics related to its nature and scope. It also funds evaluations of promising practices in victim identification, supportive victim services, and investigations and prosecutions of offenders.
Human trafficking involves the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person through the use...
Human Trafficking is a crime involving the exploitation of a person for labor, services, or commercial sex.
The Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 and its subsequent reauthorizations recognize and define two primary forms of human trafficking:
