Förändring genom kunskap - ideella föreningars arbete mot trafficking

Sammanfattning: The two largest profitable industries amongst transnational criminal groups include the buying and selling of narcotics and weapons, the third includes the buying and selling of humans. 78% of human trafficking is for sexual purposes (McCrory 2012, s.125). This essay will investigate how trafficking for sexual exploitation is handled and explained by nonprofit organizations and how they describe that their way of working affects society. We have specifically focused on three nonprofit organizations in Sweden working against trafficking by spreading awareness and formation of opinion. Our empirical data is mainly focused on the questions of how nonprofit organizations explains the existence of trafficking for sexual exploitation, the reasons for people ending up in trafficking, ways in which the nonprofit organizations work against it and how that can affects society. We have chosen qualitative studies with semi structured interviews as a method to collect our empirical data. We have chosen Jenny Brodin Danell (2007) explanations of rational choice theory for our analyze. The results produced from the investigation showed that demand is the reason for human trafficking for sexual exploitation. The nonprofit organizations illuminate that difficult circumstances are something that can force people into trafficking. They also illuminate that prostitution and trafficking often has a close connection. The results also show that nonprofit organizations approach against trafficking affects the individuals that in turn can affect society. Knowledge and values can affect the people in the way that they don’t contribute to trafficking and that leads to a society with less trafficking.