Review
The book aims to present a one-stop source on the subject — from child pornography to international human trafficking and the organized crime that is often behind it....[Funk and Kendall] wanted to provide a resource regarding not only victims, but various sex crimes, the court system, defense strategies and computer techniques perpetrators use to hide information, as well as how law enforcement can find it.
― Chicago Sun-Times
Child Trafficking and Sexual Exploitation: Examining the Global Challenges and U.S. Responses is an excellent resource for practitioners, advocates, and policy makers. The intersection of child trafficking and exploitation is a complex issue, and one seldom addressed using a child rights based approach. This book provides a comprehensive overview of the topic, including the current national and international legal instruments that can be used to combat child trafficking and exploitation cases, the impact of these crimes on child survivors, and challenges and recommendations for moving forward to protect the most vulnerable members of our society.
-- Katherine Kaufka Walts, J.D., director, Center for the Human Rights of Children; Loyola University Chicago
From the Foreword:
[A] milestone on the road to improved policy in this difficult and important area, this book will be an invaluable resource to judges, prosecutors, police, policy makers, criminologists, and the defense bar. I know that it will be of great value to me in dealing with the many appeals that my court receives from convictions and sentences in cases of sex crimes against children.
-- Richard A. Posner, U.S. Circuit Judge
This critically important book offers an essential, foundational element to a coordinated approach to end child sexual exploitation and trafficking.
-- Helen Stacy, director, Stanford University Program on Human Rights
This groundbreaking legal text, which comprehensively analyzes the accelerating worldwide crisis of the sexual exploitation and trafficking of children, comes at a critical time. . . . [A] compelling and authoritative treatise, clearly written, and filled with best practices and specific examples, this work challenges all citizens of our modern, global society to think creatively, mobilize our resources, and join forces to protect and save our children.
-- Hon. Ann Claire Williams, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit; Lawyers Without Borders Program Director; Avon Global Center for Women and Justice Steering Committee Member; National Institue for Trial Advocacy Board Member
In authoring Child Exploitation and Trafficking, U.S. District Court Judge Virginia M. Kendall and former federal prosecutor T. Markus Funk, provide perhaps the first comprehensive history and current account of child sexual exploitation and trafficking as well as seeking to provide an analysis of the grid of U.S. and transnational laws that allow for the enforcement against these crimes and the resultant prosecutions. This is not an academic work per se, but the research and comprehensive approach is scholarly. Rather, this book could serve a wide range of members of the legal community: as a reference tool, text book for law students, guidance for prosecutors and NGO’s seeking a brief synopsis of successful applications of laws both within the U.S. and in international forums.
― American Society of International Law
Review
The book aims to present a one-stop source on the subject — from child pornography to international human trafficking and the organized crime that is often behind it....[Funk and Kendall] wanted to provide a resource regarding not only victims, but various sex crimes, the court system, defense strategies and computer techniques perpetrators use to hide information, as well as how law enforcement can find it. ― Chicago Sun-Times
Child Trafficking and Sexual Exploitation: Examining the Global Challenges and U.S. Responses is an excellent resource for practitioners, advocates, and policy makers. The intersection of child trafficking and exploitation is a complex issue, and one seldom addressed using a child rights based approach. This book provides a comprehensive overview of the topic, including the current national and international legal instruments that can be used to combat child trafficking and exploitation cases, the impact of these crimes on child survivors, and challenges and recommendations for moving forward to protect the most vulnerable members of our society.
-- Katherine Kaufka Walts, J.D., director, Center for the Human Rights of Children; Loyola University Chicago
From the Foreword:
[A] milestone on the road to improved policy in this difficult and important area, this book will be an invaluable resource to judges, prosecutors, police, policy makers, criminologists, and the defense bar. I know that it will be of great value to me in dealing with the many appeals that my court receives from convictions and sentences in cases of sex crimes against children.
-- Richard A. Posner, U.S. Circuit Judge
This critically important book offers an essential, foundational element to a coordinated approach to end child sexual exploitation and trafficking.
-- Helen Stacy, director, Stanford University Program on Human Rights
This groundbreaking legal text, which comprehensively analyzes the accelerating worldwide crisis of the sexual exploitation and trafficking of children, comes at a critical time. . . . [A] compelling and authoritative treatise, clearly written, and filled with best practices and specific examples, this work challenges all citizens of our modern, global society to think creatively, mobilize our resources, and join forces to protect and save our children.
-- Hon. Ann Claire Williams, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit; Lawyers Without Borders Program Director; Avon Global Center for Women and Justice Steering Committee Member; National Institue for Trial Advocacy Board Member
In authoring Child Exploitation and Trafficking, U.S. District Court Judge Virginia M. Kendall and former federal prosecutor T. Markus Funk, provide perhaps the first comprehensive history and current account of child sexual exploitation and trafficking as well as seeking to provide an analysis of the grid of U.S. and transnational laws that allow for the enforcement against these crimes and the resultant prosecutions. This is not an academic work per se, but the research and comprehensive approach is scholarly. Rather, this book could serve a wide range of members of the legal community: as a reference tool, text book for law students, guidance for prosecutors and NGO’s seeking a brief synopsis of successful applications of laws both within the U.S. and in international forums. ― American Society of International Law
About the Author
The Hon. Virginia M. Kendall was appointed to the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois in January 2006. She has sat by designation with the Seventh, Ninth, and Federal Circuit Courts of Appeals and served six years on the Judicial Conference’s Codes of Conduct Committee. Prior to her appointment, she served as Deputy Chief in the Criminal Division of the United States Attorney’s Office in Chicago where she worked for over ten years and tried numerous jury trials. During her tenure as an Assistant United States Attorney, she was appointed to the US Attorney General’s Advisory Committee which reviewed all multi-jurisdictional child exploitation cases and acted as the Child Exploitation Coordinator in the Northern District of Illinois.
She teaches law courses in trial practice, federal litigation, and human trafficking at University of Chicago Law School, Northwestern University School of Law and Loyola University Chicago School of Law. Aside from her own writing, she also serves as an editor of Litigation Journal and is a member of the American Law Institute where she serves as an Advisor to the drafting of a model penal code for sexual offenses.
Judge Kendall lectures extensively both domestically and internationally to train judges, trial attorneys and investigators in the areas of trial law, rule of law, ethics, terrorism trials, crimes against women and children, human trafficking and public corruption. Internationally, she has traveled through the State Department, the Department of Justice, Lawyers Without Borders, Vital Voices, and various bar associations to Kenya, Egypt, Zambia, Liberia, Cyprus, India, Croatia, Latvia, Lithuania, Italy, the UK, Thailand, China, Japan and the Vatican to teach judges and trial attorneys. Domestically, she created a human trafficking training module for task forces and for judges and she regularly holds seminars to educate them and the public. She holds leadership positions in the American Bar Association, the International Bar Association, the Federal Bar Association and the Federal Circuit Bar Association. Judge Kendall has received numerous awards including the St. Robert Bellarmine Award, the Damen Award, and the Distinguished Jurist Award from Loyola University for her distinguished legal work and her service to the community; the Rape Victim Advocate’s Visionary Award for her work with victims of sexual violence; the Eleanor Roosevelt Leadership Award for being a courageous and compassionate role model; the Women and Gender Rights Leadership Award from DePaul University School of Law; and an honorary degree from Dominican University which she received with her husband for their dual work serving the community.
T. Markus Funk, prior to entering private practice,served as a federal prosecutor, Section Chief with the U.S. State Department-Balkans, clerk with the federal court of appeals and district court, and law professor at, among other institutions, Oxford University, Northwestern, and the University of Chicago. He is the founding Co-Chair of Perkins Coie's Supply Chain Compliance Practice (the first such dedicated practice among the largest 100 law firms), the founding Chair of the American Bar Association’s Anti-Trafficking Task Force (2007), "Lawyer of the Year" (2013), Colorado’s “Best Overall Litigator” and “Top White Collar Lawyer” (2015), and “10 Best Attorneys for the State of Illinois" (2014). During his time in public service, Markus and his team prosecuted "Operation Family Secrets," which National Public Radio lauded as "one of the most important criminal investigations . . . in American history." From 2004-06, Markus served as the Department of Justice Resident Legal Advisor for post-war Kosovo, helping oversee Balkan-wide efforts to modernize anti-trafficking and anti-corruption enforcement, and spear-heading the restructuring of Kosovo's post-conflict justice system.
In recognition of his service while abroad, the U.S. Department of State conferred upon Markus its "Superior Honor Award," which is the highest general service award the State Department confers (Markus is the only person to have received both the Department of Justice's Attorney General's Award for Nation’s top trial performance and the State Department's Superior Honor Award for service to the country). In addition to leading over 400 investigations for the US Government and private companies of all sizes, many involving labor exploitation and other supply chain abuses, Markus is the architect on over 100 compliance programs. Markus also authored more than 100 law-related academic and popular articles and chapters and 7 books, and his legal work has been featured in outlets such as The Atlantic Monthly, CNBC, CNN, The Economist, Investor’s Business Daily, The Los Angeles Times, The National Law Journal, National Geographic Channel, The New York Times, MSNBC, and The Wall Street Journal.
