{"id":2236,"date":"2009-04-27T07:05:37","date_gmt":"2009-04-27T12:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/?p=2236"},"modified":"2012-04-23T21:20:19","modified_gmt":"2012-04-24T02:20:19","slug":"human-trafficking-lecture-429","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/2236","title":{"rendered":"Human Trafficking Lecture 4\/29"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acrimesomonstrous.com\/information\/author\"><strong>E. Benjamin Skinner<\/strong><\/a> will speak about &#8220;<strong>A Crime So Monstrous: Face-to-Face with Modern-Day Slavery<\/strong>&#8221; at <strong>6 pm on Wed., April 29th<\/strong>, in the Summers Auditorium (James R. Connor University Center).<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard to believe, but some practices you think are merely historical, like piracy, still exist today. The forward to Skinner&#8217;s 2008 book, <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=-47aorGBguMC\"><em>A Crime So Monstrous<\/em><\/a>, states<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #808080\">Of course, we all know what slavery is. We&#8217;ve read about it in countless history books, seen it in documentaries and movies. Slavery is awful. Slavery is inhuman. Slavery is dead. <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #808080\">But that last point isn&#8217;t true. In fact, slavery is very much alive on every continent. In fact, as Ben Skinner points out, there are more slaves in the world today than ever before&#8230;<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.uww.edu\/images\/library\/blog\/waronhu.jpg\" alt=\"War on Human Trafficking cover\" class=\"alignright\" \/>Andersen Library does not own a copy of Skinner&#8217;s book, but UW-W students and staff may borrow it from other UW campus libraries using the free <a href=\"http:\/\/wtwlib.wisconsin.edu\/cgi-bin\/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&amp;PAGE=dbPage\">Universal Borrowing<\/a> service. Requested items arrive in 2-4 weekdays. A search of the <a href=\"http:\/\/wtwlib.wisconsin.edu\/\">Library Catalog<\/a> for keywords such as slavery or &#8220;human trafficking&#8221; will find other titles available locally, such as <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=BSJOaJE963sC\"><em>The war on human trafficking: U.S. policy assessed<\/em><\/a> (3rd-floor Main Collection HQ125.U6 D47 2008).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>E. Benjamin Skinner will speak about &#8220;A Crime So Monstrous: Face-to-Face with Modern-Day Slavery&#8221; at 6 pm on Wed., April 29th, in the Summers Auditorium (James R. Connor University Center). It&#8217;s hard to believe, but some practices you think are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/2236\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,34],"tags":[324,178,1890,353,1782],"class_list":["post-2236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-the-world","category-campus-connection","tag-authors","tag-books","tag-human-trafficking","tag-lectures","tag-slavery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2236"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9658,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2236\/revisions\/9658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}