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Exploitation Of Vulnerable Persons: A Comparative Statutory Legal Analysis Of Human Trafficking And Child Pornography Laws In Arizona, Colorado, Washington, And Texas, Felicia Cantrell
Felicia Cantrell
This paper is a detailed analysis of criminal statutes in 4 U.S. states: Arizona, Colorado, Washington, and Texas. The types of statutes analyzed are each states laws that affect human trafficking, sex trafficking, child pornography, and child prostitution. The analysis looks at statutory language which includes differences in sentencing lengths, the imposition of fines, mistake of age defense, car impounding, training for law enforcement or prosecutors, victim services and prostitution prevention and intervention accounts, elements of “force, fraud, and coercion” present, the mens rea component “knowingly” present, states that outlaw distribution of child pornography, as well as possession, criminalizing intentional …