Friday, July 28, 2017

Child Abuse – a Criminology perspective

Child Abuse – a Criminology perspective
By
Sharmila Bose
 (M.A. in Pol. Science, History and PGD in Human Rights)
Independent Researcher in Political Science

Introduction
Childhood is a tender stage of human individual that makes and breaks the human personality.  Parenthood is considered an important role in building sociology towards better society.  Child abuse is not just limited to indoor exploitation, but it is a systematic channel that is meant to prepare human resources for illicit economy.  Stability is child psychology will bring a stable adulthood and will not carry as a workforce for organized crime syndicate, thus it become a perpetual effort to keep the ongoing flow towards the resources that facilitate the crime syndicates, i.e., from forced labour to hazardous economy, begging, theft, sex slavery, murder, espionage, conflict soldiers and rapes.
The sociology of Child Abuse varies that influences the factors sprouted from cultural, political and economical.  The International Relations also play a significant role in addressing the trafficking of children that facilitate the economy of overseas network.  World System based on dependency theory that has ‘core, semi-periphery and periphery’ relations provides systematic networking that influence destitution of children.
India, represent Core, Semi-periphery and Periphery segment of the distribution of child labours, whereas Gujarat, Mumbai, etc., represent Core, whereas, Bihar, Bengal, U.P, Jharkhand, Orissa are periphery regions.  Gujarat and Mumbai being transit zones transport children to other foreign territories as supplies of child labour and sex slaves. Maltreatment of children has universal pattern and it cannot be isolated as a region or a nation.
The dynamism of Child Abuse is not class oriented, but it is universal crisis irrespective of region and social/economic stratum.  The victims are generally identified and targeted in the domestic radar, schools and within the community circle.  This is also called as micro environments.  The radar of abuses is varied from sexual abuse, bullying, beating, exploitation, neglect, harassment, deprivation, hunger, etc.
The Institutionalized abuses such as misappropriation by NGOs, Orphanage and Child Care Center, Religious Institutions, etc. plays significant role that creates passage for child trafficking.  Commercial Surrogate is another modes-operandi that subjugates rights of children towards their biological parents and compromises their natural rights.
Children trapped in the crime-syndicates such as beggar mafia, etc. are the most inhuman ways of child abuse.  Child abduction is the pattern that makes these children destitute in the hands of mafia.  Girls becomes vulnerable to sex-slaves and looses their innocence much before they become adult mentally and physically to absorb the most cruel and social atrocities.
This paper will explore the vulnerabilities of children in two ways, first as a target of exploitation, i.e. victim and second, a resource for crime, i.e. perpetrator.  It is also relevant to examine whether Juvenile Justice System protects the rights as Juvenile or treat them as apprentice of crime and bring them under the Criminal Justice System.  This research document will further explore organized crime syndicate strategically target children in lieu of protecting their interests through NGOs that advocates the welfare of children.  The exploitation of children is a crime and the study of Child Rights should be done under the ambit of Criminology.

Definition of Child Abuse and its parameters
According to UNICEF violence against children can be "physical and mental abuse and injury, neglect or negligent treatment, exploitation and sexual abuse. Violence may take place in homes, schools, orphanages, residential care facilities, on the streets, in the workplace, in prisons and in places of detention." Such violence can affect the normal development of a child impairing their mental, physical and social being. In extreme cases abuse of a child can result in death.  Child abuse has many forms: physical, emotional, sexual, neglect, and exploitation. Any of these that are potentially or actually harmful to a child's health, survival, dignity and development are abuse.[1]
Gujarat registered a whopping 70 per cent increase in rape and kidnapping of minor children. In 2012, the number of rape cases against minor girls was 150 but it shot up to 263 by the end of 2013. Gujarat ranks fourth nationally in abandonment of children either in garbage dumps or near hospitals after Maharashtra that reported 259 such cases in 2013.[2]  If proper investigation is done the abundant child could be child abduction.  Gujarat and Mumbai being the Port and the transit region, these abducted children are dumped for traffickers to transit overseas.
More girls in Gujarat seem to be reporting “sexual abuse” than anywhere else in the country. According to a recent status report published by an NGO — Save the Children — over 63 percent girls in Gujarat have reported sexual abuse which is the highest in the country. Madhya Pradesh (57%) and West Bengal (56%) stand second and third in the report titled, `Wings 2014: The World of India’s Girls’, conceptualised by the NGO and prepared by Advanced Centre for Women’s Studies of Tata Institute of Social Science (TISS).[3]  Gujarat is a core and a transit region so the girls are under the vulnerability of the sex crime, so the Madhya Pradesh and Bengal are periphery regions hence these girls are equally vulnerable to the sexual crimes.
The use of child soldiers in armed conflicts is qualified as one of the worst forms of child labour and concerns up to 300,000 individuals under the age of 18 years, some of whom are much younger. Mostly they are in developing countries with the situation being worse in sub-Saharan Africa, where two-thirds of contemporary armed conflicts are raging. International legal standards have been developed over the past 30 years. The difficulties in implementing them are due to the fact that, in most cases, child soldiers are present in the context of failed states, of internal conflicts, non-state actors, paramilitary organizations, organized crime, minorities and vulnerable groups, and/or mobile or displaced populations.[4]  Similar things we have witnessed in Kashmir, where children were involved in stone throwing as civil protest used by separatists against Indian Army.  The pellet guns attack these children vulnerable to permanent damage from the loss of sight and even to death. “We had 440 pellet patients who were hit in the eyes. Of these, 60 to 70 patients were under the age of 15,” consultant ophthalmologist at the SMHS Sajad Khanday told The Hindu.
These three factors indicate that the Child Abuse is not limited to the domestic atmosphere, where children have vulnerability to maltreatment, but also the economy sector that exploits the economic compulsion of the population that forced children to surrender their tenderness to the hands of exploiters for larger profits.  Further the child soldiers also indicate that the life of children has no significance that becomes easy prey to the hands of political conflicts that robs their basic rights towards life and liberty.
Child abuse is a violation of the basic human rights of a child and is an outcome of a set of inter-related familial, social, psychological and economic factors. The problem of child abuse and human rights violations is one of the most critical matters on the international human rights agenda. In the Indian context, acceptance of child rights as primary inviolable rights is fairly recent, as is the universal understanding of it.[5]

The parameter of Child Abuse can be viewed that the Child is the victim of all sorts of atrocities are already floating of as human cruelty, while the child is dependent on its parents and the Laws of civility that protect the interest of any individuals includes children.  If a proper evaluation is done, generally children are victims of maltreatment where there is a regime of limited State or failed State that gives provision to emerge a para-community that has no accountability to the Rule of Constitutional Laws that protects Life and Liberty.

Child Abuse parameters are the process of nurturing towards human trafficking that is meant towards sex slavery.  Physical abuse, sexual abuse, hunger, under-education, bullying, etc. are tend to make the victim a timid and low self-esteem person and loose its self-confidence or generate hatred, anger and violence against it’s surrounding.  Both these two extremes benefit the crime syndicates that flourish due to limited reasoning and controlled through emotions.

Organized crime emerges out of the power vacuum that is created by the absence of state enforcement, and which can have many sources: geographic, social, and ethnic distance, prohibition, or simply collapse of state institutions. Mafias and gangs are hierarchically organized and can be thought of as providing primitive state functions, with economic costs that are typically much higher than those associated with modern governance.[6]

The networking of the crime syndicates have penetrated every Institution that nurtures children, whether it is domestic sphere, school, Orphanages, child care center, etc., including the Ministries of Human Resources Department.  It identifies the background of children so that the child can be trapped according to the profile of the victim.  Child bullying by adolescences children are the modes operendi through the adult by luring them for benefits.
Crime has no accountability and morality.  It survives on destruction and destitution and that is why Civility has always condemned it.  The values of modern governance see that abuses and exploitation against the human morality and raises issues and concern and try to find the ways and mechanism to correct them.  Though the Laws have created to counter the issue of the heinous crimes against children, which is primarily Child Sex Abuse (CSA), it is not possible to curtail or check the crimes against children without addressing the crimes that have been nurtured strategically by way of manipulation of discourse towards identity and class domain than evaluating it as the economy of crimes and its human resources.
Economy of Sex through Trafficking

The dynamism of economies of human trafficking of illicit economy, Child Sex Abuse (CSA) is a strategic tool towards preparing workforce towards sex slavery.  The children irrespective of gender tend to become resources to exploit further children and/or surrender to the prostitution.  The voluntarily prostitution become the outcome of the sex abused faced by children and they see no scope to get out since, sexual abuse become social stigma and there is no forum that can make them rehabilitate.  Child Sex Abuse also create a fabric of pimps and traffickers that force the future adults to destroy the innocence of children through toxicities and blackmailing since they were themselves abused in the past.  In the absence of counseling and awareness the victims do not provision to repair the errors faced by them. 

As with the international drug trade and the illicit arms trade, profit is the driving motive for human trafficking. Human traffickers connect the supply of labour in source areas with the demand for labour in destination areas. Corruption in politicians and law enforcement officers contribute to both the lack of accurate information on human trafficking and the ease with which traffickers transport and exploit victims.[7]

The Department of Health and Human Services in the United States defines sex trafficking as the “modern-day form of slavery in which a commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud, or coercion, or in which the person induced to perform such an act is under the age of 18 years”. This definition identifies sex trafficking for the injustice that it is, and it also highlights the growing trend of sexual exploitation among minors including child prostitution and child sex trafficking. However, it is critical to clarify that sex trafficking is a crime despite the age of the victim, but in the case of minors, it is still illegal for anyone under the age of eighteen as well as the persons involved with a minor whether that be prostitution (potentially voluntary) or sex trafficking (assumedly involuntary).[8]

Surrendering sexuality is the pivotal role for women and children that engage them in the economy of crime.  This sexual submission is not restricted to economy restricted zones but also to the elites since, the economy of sexuality has no class barriers.  Hence, the vulnerability of Child Sex Abuse is not restricted, but it is universal.

Modern human slavery is a growing global phenomenon that currently entraps an estimated 2 million victims, and generates $7 Billion in criminal profits annually, rating third in profitability only after drugs and arms sales for the Mafia, yakuzas, cartels and similar international criminal organizations. In is estimated that 30,000 sexual slaves die each year around the world from torture, neglect and diseases including HIV/AIDS. [9]
The longevity of the sex slaves is limited due to the vulnerability of sexual diseases.  The continuous demand for the resources is the reason of the random child abuse and creation of resources through manipulation, deception and force.  Rapes in the society are the precondition of sex trafficking since rapes destroys the confidence of the victims and are easily traded into the business.

Juvenile Crimes and its dynamism
Government policy on juvenile delinquency must often struggle with the appropriate balance of concern over the healthy development of children and adolescents who violate the law and a public desire to punish criminals. This tension between rehabilitation and punishment when dealing with children and adolescents who commit crimes results in an ambivalent orientation toward young offenders. Criminal acts must be suppressed, condemned, and punished. Nevertheless, children and adolescents who commit criminal acts must be educated and supported in a growth process that should be the objective of government policy for all young people, including young offenders.[10]
Though there should not be any sympathy to the crime offender, but it is also important to deal with the factors that become provocative to the criminal acts.  It is also important to understand the migration of children from the remote to urban makes them into the grip of racketeers and they generally become victim to the conspiracy of the adult minds.
Petty crimes in general and heinous crimes in particular are being committed regularly in India by children. Crimes such as theft, burglary, snatching which are not so serious in nature or crimes such as robbery, dacoity, murder and rape etc which are relatively serious are on the rise in whole of the country. And the unfortunate thing is that all types of these crimes are also being committed by children below the age of 18 years. Among juveniles also there is a specific trend that juveniles between the age of 16 to 18 years are found to be more involved in heinous criminal acts. Among juveniles also there is a specific trend that juveniles between the age of 16 to 18 years are found to be more involved in heinous criminal acts. According to the National Crime Records Bureau, the data of 2013 shows that of the 43,506 crimes registered against minors under the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and the Special Local Law (SLL) by juveniles, 28,830 had been committed by those between the ages of 16 to 18. The statistics also show the number of juveniles found to be in conflict with law under the IPC and the SLL has risen 13.6% and 2.5% respectively in 2013, as compared with 2012.[11]
Though these data are random, but it is also important to find out the pattern of crimes by Juvenile.  Are these juveniles are independent in crime design and/or they are tools of the crimes design by adults and just act as contract criminals?  The criminal act of murder, rape, theft, etc., needs a channel and the purpose.  Further there is also need to understand their status whether they are locals or the migrated populations.  Most of the crime is done by the migrated population and they are into the network that has the political patronage.
In India, the first legislation dealing with children in conflict with law or children committing crime was the Apprentices Act, 1850. It provided that children under the age of 15 years found to have committed petty offences will be bounded as apprentices.[12] Apprentices of offences are generally applauded by adults involved in the economy of crimes.  Hence, isolating children from the ambit of adults in crimes would not yield any results in providing Justice to Juveniles.
The Nirbhaya rape incident that raised many issue and a strict Law framed against the crimes of rapes did not yield any results except awareness and concern of crimes against women.  Similarly, imprisoning children under new Juvenile act as adult crimes that have the patronage from the adults who are the beneficiaries of the crimes is mainly not a fair justice to Juvenile.  Juvenile crimes cannot be isolated with the adult crimes.  These juveniles are the tools of adult and there is a need to expand the investigation of crime and re-evaluate the laws that provides loopholes for the perpetrators.
The social factors that engages juvenile attracted to the crimes is the lack-of proper parenthood and engagement attitude towards the morality in the society.  When the economy is generated through recreations of drugs, sex and gambling, the juvenile tends to get trapped and ultimately become the tool of crimes.  Lack-of skill orientation towards the constructive role in the society makes these juvenile vulnerable. 
The types of offenses for which girls are arrested differ from the types for which boys are arrested. Girls have consistently been most likely to be arrested for larceny/theft, which usually involves shoplifting and for running away from home. Boys have consistently higher arrest rates than girls for all crimes except for prostitution and running away.[13]
 “UNICEF is of the view that reducing the minimum age of criminal responsibility is not the solution to the use of children 15 years or below in the commission of crimes. It will violate the very essence of justice if children who have been exploited by criminal syndicates are penalized instead of the adults who had exploited them,” Atty. Alberto Muyot, UNICEF Child Protection Specialist said. [14]  There is a need of distributive studies how the juvenile are trapped towards crime that benefits adult economy and the policies should be made accordingly.

 

Pedogate - Global Child Exploitation Crime Syndicate

The way every economy of crime has their syndicates, such as arms, drugs, trafficking, organ smuggling, forced labour, etc., and they specialized in their field and its networking pattern, similarly, Child exploitation has also nurtured by syndicate that has its own dynamism and networking system.  It has its market and resources generation.  This crime syndicate has been termed as “pedogate”, while the US Awake citizen and its federal institution FBI have exposed this “pedogate” as pizzagate.  Exploitation of children in the Global set-up is not the sociological disorder.  Even though it has been tried to define as pedophilia is a mental illness, then how there is a random increase in the child sex abuse in the every corner of the world. 
By some estimates, 1 per cent of the male population continues, long after puberty, to find themselves attracted to prepubescent children. These people are living with pedophilia, a sexual attraction to prepubescents that often constitutes a mental illness. Unfortunately, our laws are failing them and, consequently, ignoring opportunities to prevent child abuse.[15] If one percent of the male population constitute of the mental illness towards the sexual attraction towards prepubescents, then how there are institutionalized exploitation of children connecting the most powerful institutions of the World, such as CIA and other intelligence network in the Globe.  There is much more to the pedophilia besides the mental illness.  It is an Organised Crime towards the vested interest towards blackmailing, extortion, organ smuggling, child bloody sacrifice towards Kabalistic occult rituals and political control.  The recent exposure on Pizzagate, a co-ordinate effort by FBI and alert citizen group in US has exposed the modes-operendi of the undercover institution to check the politician and people in decisive position towards protecting their interest and power-play.
What makes Pizzagate so very explosive is that all of the key players are deep in D.C. politics and Washington power-plays, US government influence peddling and federal power-brokering.  And then there is the C.I.A., often regarded as the intelligence agency that not only controls the many Pedogates occurring nationwide, but also closely monitors each and every one of them.  After all, these unimaginable child abuse operations are implemented — first and foremost — as the primary control mechanism that keeps American politicians in complete check.[16]  India's former Foreign Minister Natwar Singh says that the CIA told India's former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh which people to choose for his cabinet.  Natwar Singh says that CIA agents have "penetrated deep into every sphere of decision and policy making" in the Indian government.[17] CIA and MOSSAD, to a large extent, are under the control of the British Deep State.  CIA was founded by Britain, by the British deep state. MOSSAD was also founded by the British deep state. And it was the British deep state that drew the borders of Israel.[18]
It is thus, very crucial to understand the control system of the World’s undercover, defacto governance that is controlled by British Royals and Rothschild that facilitated the creation of Israel through a strategic design of WWI and WWII.  Child sacrifice is the most crucial aspect of the Kabalistic culture sprouted from Mesopotamia civilization, for those in Power to sustain to the surrender to the satanic rituals.  There is a huge demand of children as offering for the power of few in the Shadow world.  The qualification of this network to is surrender to these rituals to attain its power.  Naturally, when the Power is attained on Child sacrifice, then how any policy and its implementation can be benefit to child’s interest?
Pizzagate has simply uncovered what everyone in Washington has always known.  That virtually every politician of note is controlled by having been compromised with an illegal and/or outrageous sexual affair, often with underage children.  In once Puritan America this has always been the easiest way to bring down a noncompliant elected official.  Of course, if the unlawful and lurid conduct occurred in the context of child rape or satanic ritual sacrifice, their political career not only ended, so was their freedom of movement due to imprisonment.[19]
This is the reason that Political Leaders who represent the people’s interest in the democratic set-up do not work for the interest of the people of their country.  Random loots and anti-people policies have always overlooked by political leaders, media and the people in the decisive position.
In May of this year a federal grand jury indicted former Speaker of the House John Dennis Hastert. The charges: that he had “structured” withdrawals of over $950,000 from various bank accounts to skirt bank reporting laws and that he had lied to federal agents about these withdrawals. According to the indictment the withdrawals were part of a bid to pay $3.5 million in blackmail to cover up “past misconduct” from his time as a high school teacher in Illinois. The story seemed perfect fodder for the tabloid corporate press. It featured a former high-ranking politician, blackmail and intrigue, and just enough details about Hastert’s former life as a teacher and wrestling coach to suggest that the “past misconduct” referred to a salacious scandal of sexual abuse of a minor. But for some reason the story faded from the headlines almost as quickly as it appeared.[20]
The media cry against the accused of minor sexual assault will surely raise eyes of population and will be justified for imprisonment, but such voices diminished when the money is paid.  This clearly indicates that how the child empathy is a tool of power mongers towards extortion.
In America, allegations of political pedophile rings date back decades, with the most notorious being the Franklin scandal in which Lawrence E. King Jr. was accused of running an elite child prostitution ring for Nebraska Republican Party members and high-ranking U.S. politicians.[21]  Pedophile is mainly seen in the elite class where they enjoy the innocence of children where they are fresh and non-contaminated and without any disease.
Only 10% of human trafficking in India is international, while almost 90% is interstate. Nearly 40,000 children are abducted every year of which 11000 remain untraced according to a report by the National Human Rights Commission of India.[22]  Abduction of 40,000 children across the country where 11000 remain untraced is not possible without the crime syndicate and police protection under the political patronage.  The absence of concrete policies that could curtail the crime against children is only to facilitate the strategies of British deep state through its arms of CIA-Mossad under the patronage of Rothschild, the Jewish who is sustaining its position through child sacrifice to Kabalistic rituals.  The untraced 11000 children are mostly sacrificed to the Occult rituals and/or killed them towards organ smuggling.
It’s crucial to comprehend that the C.I.A. does not, and never has, worked for the American people. The Company, as it is also known, works exclusively for the Military Industrial Complex and other key Fortune 1000 companies scattered around the globe. The C.I.A. is also employed by select NGOs, which have actually been set up as CIA front companies like the Clinton Foundation. The Clinton Global Initiative is just that—a global CIA operation that interpenetrates every kind of corporation that is necessary to perform a backup wherever it is necessary to have such a benevolent cover.[23]
Isolating CIA is not sufficient to handle the issue, the Mossad that is responsible for executing the policies of CIA towards military intelligence and Corporate scattered across the globe.  This intelligence have multi-layer network, i.e. as Institutions and non-government agencies, schools, religious trust/god-man, etc.  Clinton Foundation is one of them in US, just like Navjoyoti Foundation under Kiran Bedi and Prayas under Amod Kanth in India. Both of them are ex-officials of Delhi Police, the Law Enforcement Agencies and part of Mossad network.  All these Non-Government Agencies actually work for the interest of children and there is no one to investigate how the children are trafficked through their sub-contractual agencies.  The Pedogate actually works with the networking of the NGOs that work in the interest of children. The function of these CEOs of these NGOs remain deceptive and beyond any accountability.  There is a network of NGOs who are ground rooted to the remote remain under the trafficking radar that facilitate British deep state agenda towards global power.
The very endeavor that put the Clinton Foundation on the map was its response to the catastrophic earthquake in Haiti. However, a woman who was caught and convicted of child smuggling (33 children) — Laura Silsby — and who Secretary of State Clinton tried to protect from prosecution, also has ties to the Foundation. Which is why the mainstream media (MSM) was eerily silent on this whole criminal matter?[24]

Why just media, why, the international agencies did not take suo-motu initiative in the interest of children being smuggled.  Without the protection from the State Federal system, no such foundation can function.  In such case, all the activism for Child Rights is only on documents and far from the realities.  Hence, it is CIA/Mossad that is controlling the destiny of Human population which includes children under the democratic set-up by intruding into the Law Enforcement Agencies and creating its network that block policy implementation and checking the contractual crimes that includes children’s institutionalized maltreatment.

Since 2010, the Clinton Foundation has raised a total of more than $30 million for Haiti, including relief funds as well as projects focused on supporting Haiti’s small and medium businesses, improving livelihoods, enhancing education and exploring the nexus of agriculture, energy and environment. The Clinton Foundation has helped Haitian businesses develop their skills, increase their productivity, and connect with international partners.[25]

The theory of aid should be evaluated that why there is a fund rising business that distributes funds to the NGOs in the respective countries.  There is an understanding towards surrendering the population to the crime syndicate through trafficking mainly women and children.  There is no political leadership that could protect the interest of women and children due to its wrong policies, inefficient system and inadequate think tank.  This incompetence of the Governance actually supports the British deep state through CIA/Mossad and local intelligence.

Conclusion
If we evaluate from the above analysis, the maltreatment of children either in the domestic sphere or in an Institution towards child care are the strategic tool of the International conspiracy of the shadow world that influence the policies of the countries.  The political process and the Institution of Governance that protects the Rights and Liberty of every citizen including children are invaded by this shadow world that is abusing the power and conspiring against the people in the democratic setup.  There is also need to work towards the demand while restricting the supplies while working on child’s destitution in the hands of adults.
All the policies, legislation and activism are cover-up issues and a conspiracy to hide the real abuse of children in the hand of few powerful groups in the World Order that is run by the Crime Syndicates.  There is no appropriate approach is taken to uncover the real hazards towards the Child’s Rights, which is suppressed under the engagement of activism under the tag of Child’s empathy.
International bodies such as UNICEF, WHO, ILO cannot resolve the issue of Child abuse unless it has a collective approach with other UN’s bodies of UNODC, Interpol, UNSC and UNHRC.  Without the collective approach on Child Abuse, it will be difficult to protect the Child’s Rights. Children are the future generation and without securing their interest and well-being, the World Security will not be preserved.



[1] Childline India Foundation,  http://www.childlineindia.org.in/child-abuse-child-violence-india.htm
[2] Desai Darshan, Ahmedabad, July, 1, 2014, http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/sex-crime-against-minors-gujarat-child-abuse/1/370302.html
[4]  Vautravers Alexandre J., Why Child Soldiers are Such a Complex Issue, Refugee Survey Quarterly (2009) 27 (4): 96-107. https://academic.oup.com/rsq/article/27/4/96/1541946/Why-Child-Soldiers-are-Such-a-Complex-Issue
[5]Study on Child Abuse, India 2007, Ministry of Women and Child Development, Government of India, http://www.childlineindia.org.in/pdf/MWCD-Child-Abuse-Report.pdf

[6] Skaperdas Stergios, The political economy of organized crime: providing protection when the state does not, Department of Economics, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697, U.S.A, http://www.queensu.ca/dms/DMS_Course_Materials_and_Outline/Readings-MPA831/PolEconOfOrgCrime-831.pdf


[7] Wheaton Elizabeth M., Schauer Edward J. and Galli Thomas V., Economics of Human Trafficking, International Migration Vol. 48 (4) 2010, http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1468-2435.2009.00592.x/pdf
[8] Robertson, Grace (2012) "The Injustice of Sex Trafficking and the Efficacy of Legislation," Global Tides: Vol. 6, Article 4. Available at: http://digitalcommons.pepperdine.edu/globaltides/vol6/iss1/4
[9] Goolsby, Jr.  Charles M. Dynamics of Prostitution and Sex Trafficking from Latin America into the United States http://www.childtrafficking.com/Docs/cul_bground_latin_america_0108.pdf
[10] Patterns and Trends in Juvenile Crime and Juvenile Justice." Institute of Medicine and National Research Council. 2001. Juvenile Crime, Juvenile Justice. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/9747.

[11] Srivastava, Namit K, Juvenile Crimes in India,  http://www.indiacelebrating.com/social-issues/juvenile-crimes/
[12] ibid
[13] Patterns and Trends in Juvenile Crime and Juvenile Justice." Institute of Medicine and National Research Council. 2001. Juvenile Crime, Juvenile Justice. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/9747.

[14] Punish criminal syndicates, not children –-UNICEF,  Philippines, UNICEF, https://www.unicef.org/philippines/8891_9770.html

[15]  Kaplan Margo, 2014, October 5, Pedophilia – a disorder not a crime, The New York Times, https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/06/opinion/pedophilia-a-disorder-not-a-crime.html?_r=0
[16] Editor, 2016 December 28, Pedogate- A special report on the Washington, D.C., Pedophilia Scandal, The Event Chronicle, http://www.theeventchronicle.com/cabal-exposed/pedogate-special-report-washington-d-c-pedophilia-scandal/
[17] Pengfei Zhang, 2014 May 08, CIA penetrates deep into former Indian Government : Former Indian FM, http://english.cntv.cn/2014/08/05/ARTI1407201986636442.shtml
[18] Oktar Adnan, A-9 TV Programme,  http://en.a9.com.tr/read/238506/Excerpts-from-conversations/CIA-and-MOSSAD-to-a-large-extent-are-under-the-control-of-the-British-Deep-State-
[19] Editor, 2016 December 28, Pedogate- A special report on the Washington, D.C., Pedophilia Scandal, The Event Chronicle, http://www.theeventchronicle.com/cabal-exposed/pedogate-special-report-washington-d-c-pedophilia-scandal/

[20] Corbett James, 2015, October 15, The REAL Hastert Scandal : Pedophilia, drug money and blackmail, The Corbett Report, https://www.corbettreport.com/the-real-hastert-scandal-pedophilia-drug-money-and-blackmail/
[21]Corbett, 2015, November 1, Pedophiles in Politics : An open source investigation  https://www.corbettreport.com/pedophiles-in-politics-an-open-source-investigation/comment-page-1/
[22] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_trafficking_in_India
[23] A Global Child Exploitation syndicate, 2016, December 30, Maine Republict Email Alert, https://mainerepublicemailalert.com/2016/12/30/a-global-child-exploitation-crime-syndicate/
[24] ibid
[25] Clinton Foundation in Haiti, https://www.clintonfoundation.org/our-work/clinton-foundation-haiti

Saturday, July 1, 2017

Human Trafficking, Democracy and Transnational Crime Syndicate.

Human Trafficking, Democracy and Transnational Crime Syndicate.
SHARMILA BOSE
Independent Researcher in Political Science
9811915670

Abstract
Human Trafficking is viewed as organized crime and neo-slavery, but it is a parallel regime that survives under the legitimacy of Democracy.  The theory of Dependency in the World System played a crucial role in proliferating bonded labour under the tag of Globalisation.  The origin of Human Slavery has the ancient lineage which is redesigned and developed even when the civilized societies have abolish Slavery as International Covenant.
This document will explore the theoretical inadequacies in handling the issues of slavery in the era Globalisation and Dependency where an economy from the slaves from selling and reselling humanity as resources towards the illicit economy of drugs, sex, violence and smuggling human organ.  The economy from the trafficking population is facilitated by Wars and Corruption that is both man-made.
The role of Political theories based on Identity and Ideologies create a divisive society and conflicts which further create a stream of networking that traps population under the tag of democracy and political process and become the member of the parallel regime, i.e. trafficking network.
Representative Democracy under Political parties creates feudalism in the population that controls the Power and Resources.  Further Globalization has erased the boundaries and accountability and limited State control on the economy and policies.
The dynamism of globalization has erased the boundaries and the global movements have taken a phenomenon to which illicit movement has dominated the World system.  This illicit movement has a specific network which further promotes the security threats.  Human Trafficking is not limited to the periphery population that are vulnerable to poverty or lack of resources, but those who are urban population are victim of trafficking due to creation of destitution of broken marriages and shattered societies.  These urban victims become a tool of high profile crimes, financial frauds, drugs trafficking and espionage.

INTRODUCTION

Human Trafficking should be viewed from the dynamism of Transnational Crime since in every organized crime there is a need of resources that is forced than consensual.  The work populations towards the illicit economy are always vulnerable to exploitation, oppression and enslavement and they are routed through trafficking which has fortified system.  So, it will be incomplete to understand the radar of Human Trafficking without discussing Transnational Crimes syndicates since these crime syndicates are operated by people and most of them are forced labour.
The end of Cold War and the disintegration of USSR has brought huge change International Relations and International behavior. From Bipolar society to Unipolar world dominance brought a restlessness in the International Politics especially in Asian Dynamics.  From Communism / Socialism to Liberal Economy and to Globalisation brought the change in socioeconomic dynamics in the region.  This germinated many non-state actors which had intra-national and international network. In the 1970s, international relations introduced the concept of the transnational actor.  The focus on non state transnational actors grew out of the pluralist theories of the state and its decision-making process.  In domestic politics, pluralist theorists have always argued that political outputs resulted from competition among different interest groups.[1]
Asia is home to some of the largest crime syndicates in the world.  The recent economic, political and social changes in Asia have been conducive to the spread of Organised crime in this region.  These changes include the economic opening of China and its gradual shift towards capitalism, and the 1997 Asian financial crisis.  The crisis exacerbated already growing economic disparities within and between countries in Asia, creating opportunities for organized crime organizations to operate and find new recruits.  Furthermore, the economic growth of the region since the 1980s, including the development of financial centres such as Singapore and Hong Kong, and the increase of trade and beyond Asia, has been advantageous for operations conducted by Asian-based organized criminals.[2]

Rapid integration in Southeast Asia is creating new economic, social and development opportunities, but also poses significant security challenges underpinned by organised crime, according to a new report released by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).[3] There are indications that organized crime and associated problems are expanding and diversifying as regional integration intensifies.

The largest and most prominent criminal syndicates operating in Asia are the Japanese Yakuza and the triads in China.  They are not only the most powerful criminal organizations in their home countries, but also control many illegal operations in other Asian nations.  The Yakuza is divided into more than 2000 clans, the Yamguchi-gumi, with over 25,000 members, being the largest among them.[4]  These clans are developed through Multi-Layer marketing scheme to which the benefit of illicit economy reaches to the top.  It is very difficult to catch the actual perpetuator in the present Criminal Justice system due to its multi-layer schemes through contract and sub-contract systems.

The Chinese triads consist of a range of different competing groups and include the Sun Yee On in Hong Kong, the United Bamboo Gang in Taiwan, and the Wo On Lik in Macau.  On the Chinese mainland, triad activity was successfully suppressed by the Communists government and it was only in the 1970s that the first modern triad group, the Big Circle Boys, emerged there, followed by the establishment of other such groups.  Since the return of Hong Kong and Macau to China, triads based in these cities have also been able to expand their operations to the Chinese mainland, where they have benefited from, and invested in, the new and expanding Chinese economy.[5] 


The organized crime groups based in Bangladesh and Southeast Asian nations, even though these countries are home to numerous crime syndicates operating nationally, regionally, and internationally.  In Bangladesh, organized crime groups are involved in the smuggling of weapons, robbery and forgery and are hired by politicians to intimidate to kill opponents.  The so-called mastans (hoodlums, thugs), in particular have strong links with local politicians and the police, and play an influential role in elections.[6]  The non-stop infiltrations into the Indian Territory by the illegal Bangladeshi migrants are the frontline crime operator which has the political affiliation on the basis of Identity and Ideology in the region.

In Southeast Asia, transnational crime groups are involved in illicit activities such as prostitution, gambling, money laundering and the smuggling of illegal goods and human destine for Europe, the United States, and Australia.  The trade in illegal drugs is also booming in the region, mainly because the so-called Golden Triangle between eastern Myanmar, northern Thailand, and western Laos, is still one of the world’s largest supply areas for drugs such as heroin.[7]

Other Thai-based crime syndicates are involved in illegal gambling, prostitution, the trade in counterfeit products, and the smuggling of wood, gems people and oil.  The illegal trade in oil emerged in the early 1990s and has developed into a lucrative source of income, as the smugglers circumvent the high taxes on oil.  However, the majority of the illegally imported oil is pumped at sea from tankers into fishing boats that are often modified to hold 10,000 to 100,000 liters.  Eighty percent of the illegal oil enters the country thorough the Gulf of Thailand, while the remaining 20 per cent is smuggled via the Andaman Sea coastline.  So-called jao phor (Godfathers) and politicians are involved in the illegal trade in oil.  In fact, many Thai-based organized crime groups have close links with Thai politicians, and many jao phor have entered politics themselves and have gained position in central and local governments.  Furthermore, members of the military and police in Thailand are also actively involved in illegal activities.[8]  The Political Parties in the democratic system are States within States and occupy its own regime within the Statehood.  To run their organization, it needs population and resources.  Corruption and illicit economy provides them funding to sustain their legitimacy in the Political process.  The Foreign investments in any country are actually the funds raised through illicit economy through the political process and make the illicit money to licit economy through share market.

In Malaysia, organized crime syndicate, some with connections to Taiwan, are engaged in the illegal production and sale of DVDs, VCDs, and CDs.  Other groups are involved in the manufacture and sale of fake medicine, robberies, or smuggling activities, including the trafficking in endangered species, such as orang utans from East Malaysia.

In Indonesia, the preman, Organised Criminal groups are involved in protection rackets.  Many of these groups press a belief in Islam and have links to, or work directly with security forces and politicians in Indonesia.  Other organized criminal syndicates operating from Indonesia include Pakistani-led organizations involved in the smuggling of people, mostly from the Middle East to Australia.[9]  It is important to understand the identity of this country has the affiliation to its economy, i.e. protection racket and Pakistan provides human resources through this channel.   So, Pakistan is not just terror breeder, i.e. defacto army and strategist but also into the International Protection racket. Pakistan’s International Relations highlights its supply of human resources in the Protect rackets.

Organised crime groups in Philippines do not have the pronounced organization structure prevalent in groups such as Yakuza.  Yet, even though Philippine groups are generally more loosely knit, the organizations are nonetheless highly efficient.  Criminal groups are based and operated in all parts of the Philippines, with kidnapping for ransom, being one of the more typical activities of these groups.  Other illegal activities include bank robberies, drug and people smuggling, and illegal gambling.  As in other countries in the region, criminals in the Philippines have links to politicians and members of law enforcement agencies and some criminal organizations cooperate with politically motivated movements.[10]

In addition to those organizations discussed above, ethnic Chinese criminal groups are active throughout Southeast Asia.  These include the Chiu Chow group in Burma and Thailand, the 18 Gang and Wah Kee in Malaysia, and the Tiger Dragon Secret Society in Singapore.  Furthermore, criminal organizations from out the region have begun to operate within Southeast Asia, often through contract with local crime groups.  These include Russian criminal groups which are active in Thialand and provide, for example, Slavic women to brothels in Thailand.  Other criminal organizations operating in the region include group from South Asia, Japan and Korea, as well as Nigerian criminal enterprises which participate in the drug trade.[11]

The impact of China’s one child policy and India’s cultural preference for male has left large populations with more men than women.  This gender imbalance has created high demand for women that has fueled trafficking of women to both nations.  Acquiring women and girls for the purpose of brides has become a common occurrence in the region.  Females are obtained through multiple ways such as coercion and force that have been previously mentioned, but also through kidnapping.  Kidnapping has become a common means for acquiring women and children as the migration of populations between and within states increases the ability for kidnapping to occur.  In China, persons travelling from the countryside to cities are extremely vulnerable to kidnapping as paths traveled are not always high trafficked routes (State 2014; Baculinao 2004) 

The demand for sex creates it market for the sale of sex to which pimps who are the part of gang of the criminal network of the region creates a bridge of demand and supply.  But it cannot be denied that only the socio-cultural environment creates a market for sex.  The market of sex is also created through liberal sex environment through the instigation through porn and glamourisng sexual behavior in the society.  Sex is the biological need and it has a confirmed market and resources.  So, the Sex syndicates create the socio-economic environment, i.e. generating resources and creating the market for sex so that the economy of sex encouraged.

These Criminal Syndicates are run through people as forced labour and human trafficking is the route for Human Resources generation and are collected from the family system which is a socio fabric of any society. These socio fabric has a cultural affiliation which is further being exploited by the social elites to facilitate the dynamism of Transnational Criminal Syndicate.   International Relations and International Politics play a crucial role in protecting the operation of International Criminal Syndicate in the name of Race and Identity.  Crime has no identity and it is always threat to Civility which is still not touched in tune of Political Science.

Human Trafficking in Asian countries cannot be studied in isolation without evaluating the works done in the Core nations.  Core nations are the destinations, whereas the regional power in the Asian countries like China and India play a multiple role of periphery, semi-periphery and Core nation.  Human Trafficking exploits the market of cheap labour in the global environment that aspire many for the better life elsewhere.  The concept of better life is due to deliberate inadequate indigenous policies that could facilitate the aspiration of growing skills of the population.  The theory of Poverty that compel population trafficking is not complete.  Poverty is created due to corruption in the Political system in a democratic process.
Democratic process plays a crucial role in Human Trafficking.  Politicians are the feudal lords that work under the networking of supply and demand of trafficking population.  These populations not only facilitate towards economy generation for the Political regime but also earn them the Political capital.  More trafficking population creates more fund raising and political capital makes more stability in the political career.
The close network of the Political regime in a democratic system across the globe provides them an access of unorganized labour market towards cheap and uncompensated labour.  The methodology of trafficking business is based on demand and supply.  One country’s demand is fulfilled by another country’s supply. E.g. Indonesia, Laos, Thailand and Timor-Leste, have a thriving fishing industry, much of which is supported with forced labour. Men travel to Indonesia for legitimate jobs in fishing agriculture, factories, and mines, and find themselves trafficked into forced labour.  Fisheries are a large area of forced labour in South Asia, as exemplified in Thailand.  Victims are enticed by employment where there are promised decent wages and working conditions.  What is found in that labourers are forced to work long hours on ships in the waters of the destination country given the most grueling jobs, are beaten, not provided breaks or limited food, and pay a typically withheld Health regulations, along with working regulations, are not followed on these ships and have many times resulted to ship fires, which often times result in death.  Similar conditions and experiences are common in factories and construction.  Employers take advantage of human trafficking due to the cheap labor they provide and the limited pressure to abide by state regulations (State 2014; Larsen 2010).

The Demand by men looking for commercial sex and bondage arrangements lead to massive human trafficking of women from the periphery nations to the destination countries.  The political instability plays a crucial role in this.   Since the 1990s, the classic scenario in Central and Eastern Europe has been that recruiters – both male and female – coercive women into the sex trade by advertising through newspaper or job fairs seemingly legitimate opportunities including modeling or waitressing.  Especially seductive in the imploded economies of post-communist countries, such job offers promise financially desperate individuals employment, possibility to build a new life in a foreign country, and a chance to provide for their families back home.  This “employment”, of course, results in a life of sexual exploitation.  This archetypal pattern is also visible in conflict zones and in areas of extreme poverty.  In South Asia it is common for dalals (pimps) to have young girls and women to what they promise will be lucrative position as domestic servants in big cities, often in other countries.  A common trafficking route is to transport girls from Nepal, Myanmar and Bangladesh across the Indian border via land routes.  Ultimately, the girls end up in Mumbai brother or Karachi slums, from which they are sold upcountry or shipped off to the Gulf States.  Sometimes the men who buy girls enter into fake marriages with them.  In an extension of these abuses, hundreds of thousands of small children of both sexes are kidnapped and sold into sexual slavery, even by family members.[12]
Politics is usually reserved for the elite that control important economic interests in their respective regions. These local leaders are the ones who often use organized crime for their own benefit (e.g. to gain and/or maintain political control in key territorial areas and increase funding for personal and political purposes by forging strategic alliances with these networks). This becomes apparent with the type of structure that organized crime increasingly uses in this region: operating as a network (where the various links in the chain work together but are independent) rather than an organized group. Those involved are not always connected to each other and they often operate through temporary arrangements in a non-hierarchical fashion. This type of structure allows political forces to participate in the business without being subordinated to a particular group.[13]
Even though violence is still an important tool for organized crime, it often draws too much attention to the network’s activities. This is why many opt to create strategic alliances to get the State’s support (by means of action or omission). The benefit crime networks often derive from political actors is not always in the form of direct quid pro quo arrangements, but rather is paid off by a series of diffused favours. Contributions are often in the form of the omission by State institutions to take action against a crime network - in the same way that politicians can “facilitate” the business activities of legitimate interests.[14]
Alliances between organized crime and the State are not only established through traditional political leaders, but also through foundations and institutes that have important contacts (and sometimes contracts) with the local establishment. Some criminals carry out charity work around their communities to gain popular support and create a shield to protect them against state pressure.[15]
The political inadequacies in handling the gender issues that facilitate the human trafficking are that there is no collective effort in analyzing the socio-cultural criteria.  India's  current  laws  and  policies  do  not  comply  with India's  obligations  to  adopt  measures to  prevent  human trafficking  under  the  UN  Trafficking  Protocol.  The Immoral Traffic (Prevention)  Act  (ITPA)  (hereafter referred to as the ITPA) authorizes the Central Government to constitute an authority for the prevention of trafficking  in  persons.   However, outside of this  enabling  provision to  establish  such  an  authority,  the  ITPA predominantly  focuses  on  the  punishment  of  trafficking  offenses  as  well  as  rehabilitation  efforts  (i.e., rehabilitation  homes).  There is little mention of ‘prevention’ within  the  ITPA.  Furthermore,  the  ITPA  does  not address  trafficking  for  any  purpose outside of sexual  exploitation.  The Bonded Labour Act similarly neglects to create human trafficking  prevention  measures. The  Preamble  of  the  Bonded  Labour  Act states  that  the  Act is  intended  “to  provide  for  the  abolition  of  bonded  labour  system  with a  view  to  preventing  the  economic  and physical  exploitation  of  the  weaker  sections  of  people.”   However,  the  Act  does  not  address  ‘prevention’ efforts  at  any  other  point  within  the  text.[16]  The prevention measures for the trafficking population needs specific policy than laws since the implementation of the Laws becomes weak due to lack of policies.  Rehabilitation of victims is an enormous expenditure to which the system is beyond to afford, so prevention is better than cure.  The Policies need to redesign the Economic standing for the country which should be self-sufficient.  Presently under the Global Economic policies, the indigenous economy is absolutely neglected to which there is huge crisis of underdevelopment of skills that forced population to get trapped into the Crime Syndicates.  Human Trafficking is not just limited to sex slavery or bonded labour but also involved in Crimes and terror network to which no legal or Institutional framework is created to checking the flow of trafficking persons.

Although the concept of transnational crime could seldom be found in any legal text or law enforcement handbook before the last decade (Mitsilegas, 2003, p.82), today the term is commonly employed by specialists and non-specialists alike.  Yet, transnational crime is not a legal concept; it lacks a precise juridical meaning.  It remains a concept within criminology that describes social phenomena (Mueller, 2001, p.13).  The term is both sociological, because we are concerned with the understanding criminal groups or networks, and political, because transnational criminal actors operate within an international environment structured by nations-states by politics (Serrano, 2002, p.16)[17]  The dynamics and dimensions of the Transnational Organised Crime is not limited to Human Trafficking towards Sex Trade, rather is a para-community that runs through defacto order in the World of Rule of Law.  Sex Slavery is part of this brutal reality to which women and children become a public urinal in the civilized world.

In the concluding statement of this paper is that Human Trafficking is more like a captivation of the Political Capital in the name of Liberalisation and Globalisation where the State apparatus and tools are too weak and unequipped to handle the Transnational Crime Syndicate that work with the hand in gloves with the Political Establishments. Democracy in true sense is subjugated under the Feudalism, i.e. Feudalism of Human Resources and Natural Resources.  In fact, the UNODC has not addressed the Neo-slavery in the right direction, i.e. evaluating the Global licit and illicit movement due to Global Economic Policy which is under the grip of Global Central Banks controlled by Rothschild and few Royal Families and neglected Indigenous Economy that could check the trafficking of persons and making the Political Class accountable to its population in a Democratic environment.





[1] Reichel Philip, Handbook of Transnational Crime and Justice, Saga Publications, London, 2005
[2]  Carolin Liss, Oceans of Crime : Maritime Piracy and Transnational Security in Southeast Asia and Bangladesh, Institute of Southeast Asia Studies , Singapore, 2011
[3] UNODC, Bangkok, https://www.unodc.org/southeastasiaandpacific/en/2016/02/organized-crime-southeast-asia/story.html
[4]  Carolin Liss, Oceans of Crime : Maritime Piracy and Transnational Security in Southeast Asia and Bangladesh, Institute of Southeast Asia Studies , Singapore, 2011

[5] ibid
[6] ibid
[7] Ibid
[8] ibid
[9] ibid
[10] ibid
[11] ibid
[12] Hunt Swanee, Deconstructing Demand : The Driving Forces of Sex Trafficking, The Brown Journal of World Affairs, Volume XIX – ISSUE II, Spring /Summer 2013

[13] Burcher, Catalina Uribe, The link between politics and organized crime in the Andean region, IDEA, 2013, http://www.idea.int/americas/the-link-between-politics-and-organized-crime-in-the-andean-region.cfm


[14] ibid
[15] ibid
[16] India's Human Trafficking Laws and Policies and the UN Trafficking Protocol:Achieving Clarity, 2015

[17] Felsen David, Kalaitzidis Akis, AHistorical Overview of Transnational Crimes, p. 5, Handbook of Transnational Crime and Justice, Saga Publication, London, 2005.