Author: Nora Coghlan, The Salvation Army STOP-IT program
Each year, the Combat Human Trafficking Act of 2015 requires that the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) prepares a report on human trafficking. This past October, BJS released information on the data collection profile. This report provided valuable information on characteristics of human trafficking defendants in cases charged in US district courts in the fiscal year 2021. These stats included that most defendants of peonage, slavery, forced labor and sex trafficking were Black males between the ages of 25-34, with 76.6% of defendants being male, 57.5% of defendants being Black, and 38.3% of defendants being between the ages of 25-34. Read more about the statistics released here: https://bjs.ojp.gov/document/htdca23.pdf .
| BJA Data Collection Profile 2023.pdf |
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