The process of discovering and prosecuting trafficking with minors

Abstract

Nowadays, in this modern society there are a lot of negative social appearances, including a lot of varieties of criminal which are becoming not just a national problem, but also a global and an international problem. Migration, both legal and illegal, affects all the countries in the world. The illegal includes smuggling and human trafficking. Human trafficking is an unlawful activity which disrupts the international regulations and the national legislation and threatens the vital values of a community. However, every form of trafficking with children does not have the same level of danger and risks, or danger to the security of the state and its residents. This global problem has become so serious that about 700.000-4.000.000 women and children per year, are sold, and due to this that countries are implementing new laws and regulations related to human trafficking. But, often the people in the countries that have implemented such laws, are not sufficiently familiar with human trafficking, so they consider that human trafficking affects only the sexual exploitation prostitution described as, “the oldest profession” through the centuries. Never the less, this phenomenon covers a wider area, i.e. from being sexually exploited, the victims can also being labor exploited, abused by hiring at dangerous activities, criminal activities or armed conflicts etc. The child trafficking is not a new issue, it has always existed. What is new is that the organized crime takes an enormous swing with its sophisticated methods of action. The rate of child trafficking is lower than the one with adult’s, but that does not mean it should be ignored. On the contrary, it should be taken a bigger swing of the preventive level in order to eliminate the conditions and the cause of that criminal behavior and the level of repression, with which the very repression itself of a single crime of trafficking in minors can stimulate distraction of a potential offender of a new crime.