Title: Recognizing Human Trafficking | Polaris
Headings: Recognizing Human Trafficking
Recognizing Human Trafficking
It’s Not Knowing the Signs – It’s Knowing the Story
Vulnerabilities and Recruitment
Recognizing Labor Trafficking
Recognizing Sex Trafficking
What is Grooming?
What Are You Seeing?

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Recognizing Sex Trafficking
Anyone selling sex who is under 18 is legally a trafficking victim. There are a number of racial myths and stereotypes associated with sex trafficking. Learn More
What is Grooming? Sex traffickers carefully and methodically work to gain their victims’ trust, create a degree of dependence, and subtly promote the idea that selling sexual services is normal, acceptable and necessary. Ultimately, successful grooming results in vulnerable people cooperating in their own exploitation and abuse and believing they have made the choice to do so independently. Learn More
What Are You Seeing? Context is key to being able to help understand if what you are seeing is sex or labor trafficking – or something else entirely. People who work in certain industries, for example, may be more likely to spot signs of trafficking that are specific to the way that industry operates. Below are resources specific to either the type of trafficking or to how trafficking situations may intersect with certain kinds of systems and industries. The U.S. National Human Trafficking Hotline does not report to law enforcement in situations involving adults without permission from the person contacting the Trafficking Hotline.