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In a world where global flows of people and commodities are on the increase, crimes related to illegal trafficking are creating new concerns for society. This in turn has brought about new and contentious forms of regulation, surveillance, and control. There is a pressing need to consider both the problem itself, and the impact of international anti-trafficking responses.
This authoritative work examines key issues and debates on sex and labor trafficking, drawing on theoretical, empirical, and comparative material to inform the discussion of major trends and future directions. The text brings together key criminological and sociological literature on migration studies, gender, globalization, human rights, security, victimology, policing, and control to provide the most complete overview available on the subject.
Suitable for students and scholars in criminology, criminal justice and sociology, this book sheds unique light on this highly topical and complex subject.
Rethinking Human Trafficking
Rethinking Human Trafficking
This book opened with the observation of an exponential growth of academic, policy and political interest in the problem of human trafficking, so much so that trafficking has been transformed from a relatively poorly funded and marginal issue in the 1980s into the global agenda of high politics today. Indeed, it has been ten years since the United Nations adopted the Trafficking Protocol under the UN Convention Against Transnational Organised Crime in 2000. Yet, all this increased attention and activities has tended to simplify and polarise rather than clarify the trafficking debate, fuel the moralising agenda and the powers of an overlapping criminal justice–immigration control apparatus, and increase rather than reduce the risks and damage suffered by trafficked victims and ...
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