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Costs of Sexual Traffic

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Prof. Michael Levi, Prof. Martin Innes, Prof. Peter Reuter, and Mr. Rajeev V.  Gundur   wrote a report called The Economic, Financial, & Social Impacts of Organised Crime in the European Union, a report from 2013, and the above extract came from this report. I observe that they are all men. I would think that freedom is priceless and even one second of our lives may make an extraordinary difference, like in that second we may press the button that destroys the asteroid that was going to hit earth and kill plenty and therefore we may be recorded in human history as heroes, with name and picture in academic books, just because we were alive and free to act. Besides, I reckon we should always assess losses for the individual from the perspective of the most important, useful and happy, since that means we will get more value for the losses, running the risk of overvaluing, but not undervaluing, them and gains from the opposite perspective, so that we are never unfa...