Podcast on Crimes Against Women

True Justice Will Be Unique: Working Toward Justice in the Ever-Changing World of Human Trafficking

March 22, 2021 Conference on Crimes Against Women Season 2 Episode 7
Podcast on Crimes Against Women
True Justice Will Be Unique: Working Toward Justice in the Ever-Changing World of Human Trafficking
Show Notes

Episode seven of the second season of the Podcast on Crimes Against Women continues our human trafficking series with Kirsta Melton, Chief Executive Officer of the Institute to Combat Trafficking and the Deputy Criminal Chief of the Human Trafficking and Transnational Organized Crime Section of the Attorney General of Texas. In this episode, Kirsta explores the evolution of human trafficking and its scope worldwide, how technology has both helped and hindered efforts to stop human trafficking, her involvement in the takedown of Backpage.com, and how the Institute to Combat Trafficking is working to decrease human trafficking through on-location programs, trainings, and investigation and prosecution assistance.