Terrify No More The book Terrify no More by Haugen and Hunter concerns the efforts of the International Justice Mission to rescue 37 young girls who have been taken from their homes outside Phnom Pehn to become sex slaves. The mission of the IJM manifested in four basic components: providing immediate relief for the victims, holding perpetrators accountable, providing aftercare for victims, and preventing the crime from occurring again, as well as strengthening the community. While the IJM has succeeded in these components on the micro-level, the nature of the crime and the systems that allow this crime to perpetuate is such that these four components can necessarily only be partially fulfilled.

The first component, which is immediate relief for the victims of the abuse is the most easily fulfilled, in the form of providing the young victims of the abuse with a comfortable setting in which to begin rebuilding their lives. Once the girls have been rescued from the perpetrators...

47). Most importantly, they were taken into care in a way that ensured their sense of safety, security, and youth.
The second component, which entails holding the perpetrators of the crime accountable, is not as easy to achieve. According to the authors (p. 59), there are several reasons for this. First, there is the nature of the industry. According to the authors, rescuing a number of girls would simply mean that perpetrators look for more girls to replace the ones that have been rescued. Furthermore, even if a certain perpetrator were to be held accountable, there would simply be another to take his place. The entire nature of the industry and the demand of the industry would have to change if the perpetrators were truly to be held accountable.

Another reason is the nature of the authorities in the region, most…