Editing Moral panic (section)

==== Human trafficking (2000–present) ====
Many critics of contemporary anti-prostitution activism argue that much of the current concern about [[human trafficking]] and its more general conflation with [[prostitution]] and other forms of [[sex work]] have hallmarks of moral panic. They further argue that this moral panic shares much in common with the '[[white slavery]]' panic of a century earlier, which in the US prompted passage of the 1910 ''[[Mann Act]]''.<ref>{{Cite journal |doi=10.1007/s12147-999-0021-9 |pmid=12296110 |title=Loose women or lost women? The re-emergence of the myth of white slavery in contemporary discourses of trafficking in women |journal=Gender Issues |volume=18 |issue=1 |pages=23–50 |year=1999 |last1=Doezema |first1=Jo |s2cid=39806701 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Weitzer |first1=Ronald |title=The Social Construction of Sex Trafficking: Ideology and Institutionalization of a Moral Crusade |journal=Politics & Society |date=September 2007 |volume=35 |issue=3 |pages=447–475 |doi=10.1177/0032329207304319 |s2cid=154583133 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |doi=10.2139/ssrn.1333994 |chapter=Women's bodies, moral panic and the world game: Sex trafficking, the 2006 Football World Cup and beyond |title=Proceedings of the Second Australia and New Zealand Critical Criminology Conference |year=2009 |last1=Cunneen |first1=Chris |last2=Salter |first2=Michael |isbn=978-0-646-50737-8 |pages=222–242 |s2cid=146691694 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |doi=10.2298/TEM0802021M |title=Football and sex: The 2006 FIFA World Cup and sex trafficking |journal=Temida |volume=11 |issue=2 |pages=21–47 |year=2008 |last1=Milivojevic |first1=Sanja |last2=Pickering |first2=Sharon |doi-access=free }}</ref> [[Nick Davies]] argues that the following major factors contributed towards this effect. Since the [[collapse of Communism]], Western Europe was flooded with sex workers from [[Eastern Europe]], and the term ''sex trafficking'' came to mean any organized movement of sex workers, losing the connotation of force and coercion. This change of the definition entered, e.g., into the UK's [[Sexual Offences Act 2003]]. Second, academic researchers on sex trade provided a range of estimates of the trafficked persons, including estimates based on various assumptions, up to the very pessimistic ones. The media picked the most alarmist numbers, which were uncritically used by politicians, who in their turn were quoted for further misleading information.<ref>{{Cite news | last1 = Davies | first1 = Nick | author-link = Nick Davies | title=Prostitution and trafficking – the anatomy of a moral panic| work=[[The Guardian]]| access-date=29 November 2009 | date=20 October 2009 | url= https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2009/oct/20/trafficking-numbers-women-exaggerated }}</ref>