USDOJ releases trafficking victim statistics for the U.S. - 1 views
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Ally Mitchell on 03 Feb 12"USDOJ releases trafficking victim statistics for the U.S." The Human Trafficking Project. 12 Sept. 2009. Web. 31 Jan. 2012. The author, in the article "USDOJ releases trafficking victim statistics for the U.S." (2009), explains that human trafficking is a major issue in the United States. The author supports their explanation by listing statistics from the Human Trafficking Reporting System that were released by the U.S. Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Statistics. The author's purpose is to make the public aware of the enormity of human trafficking in the U.S. so that they gain an understanding of what is going on in the country. The author writes in an educated and logical tone, mostly just listing statistics, for the people looking for research, such as students or teachers. Justin Hakuta, a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University, is the founder of the Human Trafficking Project. However, this information was taken directly from the U.S. Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Statistics. The article is made up of mostly statistics, and since they were from the USDOJ, the source is credible. The statistics are from the first 21 months of a new program, the Human Trafficking Reporting System. Most of the other articles just have loose estimates of information regarding numbers in human trafficking situations; however, this study has allowed more solid numbers to come into existence. My research paper will benefit from the information in this study because it does give more trustworthy percentages and estimates concerning the sex trafficking industry.