Holding on to Clarity: Reconciling the Federal Kidnapping Statute with the Trafficking Victims Protection Act

In recent decades, the international community has come to recognize human trafficking as a problem of epidemic proportions. Congress responded to this global crisis in 2000 by passing the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA) and has since supplemented that comprehensive enactment. But, in ligh...

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