Crime and punishment

Human trafficking

Human trafficking
Human trafficking is the illegal trade. It has been identified as the fastest growing criminal industry in the world. It is second only to drug trafficking as the most profitable illegal industry in the world. People are selling, put-uponing and huffing for slavery or sexual exploitation.

Reasons
45% 40% 40% 35% 35% 30% 25% 20% 15% 10% 10% 5% 0% 2006 2007 2008 14% 10% 36%

Elementary calibre High calibre

Most important reasons: 1. People need money; 2. Other people women see like sexual favour conveyor; 3. Valuables of family depreciation; 4. Different penalty of human trafficking in different countries 5. Prostitution is in a great request in a west. 6. People who have lower calibre are more pregnable and implicate to human trafficking.

LITHUANIA
A few facts about human trafficking in Lithuania: Lithuania is a source, transit, and destination country for women and girls subjected to sex trafficking

The financial support for victim assistance is the lowest in the Baltic region.
The Lithuanian government identified 22 trafficking victims during at 2011, including three child victims.

 Lithuanian women are also the victims of sex trafficking in the United Kingdom (UK), Germany, Spain, the Netherlands, Greece, Italy, France, and the Czech Republic.

Prevention
Police are fighting and working with human trafficking, but we need more institutions in Lithuania, which work with victims of human trafficking. Thats why at 2009 there was made organization Inspectors Office. There working exofficers.

Punishment
Lithuania prohibits human trafficking through Articles 147 and 157 of its criminal code, which prescribe penalties ranging from a fine up to 12 years' imprisonment.