The Impact of Legalized Prostitution on Human Trafficking

Abstract

Trafficking in persons is a phenomenon that has taken dimensions that are always increasing and it is considered as a slavery of modern times.Trafficking in persons is treated as a basic violation of substantial human rights of an individual, since it violates the dignity and human integrity.Trafficking of children, women and young girls is not only connected to prostitution or their use for sex, but also with many social problems.Trafficking of human beings originates from a series of social and psychological conditions.This work treats the legalization of prostitution and its relation to the traffickingin persons.The basic intention of this work is to analyze whether there is influence or not on the reduction of trafficked persons by the legalization of the prostitution.The questions that we intend to give answers through this work based on experts’ opinions and results of different scientific researches shall be as follows; - Legalization of prostitution effects on the increase or decrease on trade with humans. - Legalization of prostitution,does it controls the sex industry or it expands it even more. - Taxation aspect of the prostitution: the motive of legalization of the prostitution: for the benefit of the state or for the benefit of the citizens? For analysis we shall take example to study the Dutch and German models of prostitution, these models have accepted prostitutionas as a legal activity, actually we shall compare them with Swedish model of prostitution, with the aim to get an exact conclusion of how much there could be influence on increase or decrease of trafficked persons by legalizing the prostitution.

DOI: 10.5901/ajis.2014.v3n2p103