Relevant Etiological Factors Involved in Human Trafficking in order to Practice Prostitution

• Author: Alexandru Boroi
• Position: Danubius University of Galati, Faculty of Law
• Pages: 58-62

European Integration - Realities and Perspectives

2010

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Relevant Etiological Factors Involved in Human

Trafficking in order to Practice Prostitution

Alexandru Boroi

Danubius University of Galati, Faculty of Law, boroialexandru@univ-danubius.ro

Abstract: Human trafficking (especially wo men and young girls, though men count equally a mong the

victims) are recently developed worldwide. T he situation in certain regions of Central and Eastern Europe

(with the opening of borders, increasing unemployment and p overty, dislocations and r educing state control

structures) tend to favour the development of all forms of trafficking, especially of human trafficking for

sexual exploitation. To adopt appropriate measures to prevent and combat we have to know first the causes

and conditions that generate human beings trafficking. Analysis of case studies and police statistics allowed

the structuring of categories of c auses and conditions that generate and sustain the phenomenon of traff icking

in order to practice prostitution.

Keywords: human trafficking; prostitution; criminal law

Currently, the phenomenon of human trafficking and corruption, underground economy, tax evasion

and financial fraud, is one of the strongest manifestations of crime, which, in a record time, saw

unimaginable proportions for our society. The problem of trafficking is not a new problem in human

history. Slavery in new or old forms, and practices similar to slavery still exist in other countries of the

world, everything is in the range of organized crime. Developing new means of communication and

global economic imbalances have internationalized the trafficking. First there was trafficking in white

people, then trafficking from south to north, and now trafficking in disadvantaged regions to more

prosperous regions (especially to Western Europe), regardless of geographic location. Contradictory

dynamics in terms of social phenomena and political processes taking place in Eastern Europe,

appeared and developed as underground phenomenon of global dimensions, human trafficking.

(Kartush, 2004)

Human trafficking (especially women and young girls, though men count equally among the victims)

are recently developed worldwide. When the desire to emigrate to the west can n ot be satisfied legal

migration candidates resort to intermediaries, who have often proved to be part of organized criminal

networks that were authorized to recruit persons for prostitution. Especially the situation in certain

regions of Central and Eastern Europe (with the opening of borders, increasing unemployment and

poverty, dislocations and reducing state control structures) tend to favour the development of all forms

of trafficking, especially of human trafficking for sexual exploitation. This development would not

have been possible without the development of specific networks, in terms of sexual exploitation.

Customers are true pillars of the system of prostitution. The client, the male buyer from the market of

prostitution, remains mostly anonymous or invisible. Trafficking in human beings respond to specific

requests from customers whose behaviour follows the evolution of European society. Therefore, it

seems that customers of the sex trade play a decisive role; the traffickers are trying above all to meet

the demand. Reasons leading to buying of sex are different: curiosity, sexual variation and