Alicia W. Peters explores how cultural and symbolic frameworks regarding sex, gender, and victimization were incorporated into the drafting of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA) and have been replicated through the interpretation and implementation of the law. Tracing…
Peters organises her analysis of the US Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA) (2000) into three sections: the law 'on the books, ' 'in the mind, ' and 'in action.' By arranging her research in this way, she is able to effectively tease out the difficulties faced by individua…
Signed into law in 2000, the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA) defined the crime of human trafficking and brought attention to an issue previously unknown to most Americans. But while human trafficking is widely considered a serious and despicable crime, there has been f…
