¶ … social policy related to your Final Project topic. Then explain one theory that supports the creation or reform of this social policy. Be specific, and provide examples.
Human Trafficking
The image of the "happy hooker" is a delusion which consumers of prostitution and the sex trade have often used as a means for quieting their own consciences and silencing any glimmers of their own personal moral code. Women are often driven to the sex trade via forces like discrimination, extreme economic hardship and domestic violence (Jordan, 2009). Social policies during the Bush administration treated human trafficking as a one-dimensional crime, and sought to punish both the women involved and the clients as a heavy-handed means of abolishing it (Jordan, 2009). This was an overly-simplistic approach which treated human-trafficking as if it were any other illegal trade by punishing all involved -- comparable to the way drug...
This is hardly a sound economic or social policy as "…the ensuing crackdowns have meant prison, violence, forced 'rehabilitation' and no means to earn an adequate livelihood. At the same time, the policy has not achieved its goal of reducing the incidence of trafficking, prostitution, commercial sexual exploitation of children or HIV / AIDS" (Jordan, 2009). While it's understandable why the government has used such a forceful approach in the past -- human trafficking has been connected with organized crime, the drug trade, migrant smuggling and terrorist financing -- this approach has largely been unsuccessful (Langberg, 2010). It's not enough to simply imprison and discipline the consumers of the…
