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| Chelsea Mack, '17 |
My project this semester was
assisting Shared Hope International with analyzing the efficacy of certain
statutes relating to child sex trafficking.
This project was quite the
task. Those of us on the team learned very quickly that we no longer
understood the meaning of words because every time we thought a word meant
something, then we would look at another statute in a different state and
discover that the statute implicated a different definition.
Reviewing
multiple statutes in fifty-one jurisdictions (including Washington D.C.)
provided a broad perspective of legislation in the United States. I was
surprised that certain states that hold larger populations possessed statutes
containing weaker, or simply broader, language regarding child sex trafficking
than other states with smaller populations.
This project definitely
pushed me to a new level of legal analysis than I expected at the beginning of
the project.
I hope and pray that Shared Hope will be able to utilize our
summaries to communicate with legislators around the country to amend existing
statutes and pass new ones to effectively criminalize and prosecute more
individuals who offer to buy sex with minors.
Chelsea Mack, '17
CGJ Student Staff Member
This post was written by a Center for Global Justice student staff member. The views expressed in this post do not necessarily reflect those of Regent University, Regent Law School, or the Center for Global Justice.
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