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Florida’s new reporting system is shining a light on human trafficking in the Sunshine State

  • Written by Shelly M. Wagers, Associate Professor of Criminology, University of South Florida
imageHuman trafficking can be hard to track because it is a crime that hides in plain sight.Mireya Acierto/Photodisc via Getty Images

Most Americans imagine human trafficking as a violent kidnapping or a “stranger danger” crime – someone abducted from a parking lot or trapped in a shipping container brought in from another country.

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