Organized crime in Mexico continues to be a major topic of discussion, particularly related to drug trafficking, arms trafficking, human smuggling, and more recently, human trafficking. Mexico criminalized trafficking in persons in 2007, and passed its current human trafficking law, Ley General for short, in 2012.
Little is known about Ley General’s subsequent revisions and whether and where Mexico’s human trafficking legislation has influenced trends in human trafficking investigations. This presentation offers a discussion on the challenges with responding to human trafficking and whether this trafficking is a federal government
responsibility or a state responsibility, identifies Mexican states with high human trafficking activity based on official SESNSP (Secretariado Ejecutivo del Sistema Nacional de Seguridad Pública) data, and offers alternative explanations for the facilitation of human trafficking.
Additionally, strategies that the Mexican criminal justice system can adopt to disrupt trafficking in persons are also considered.
