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Cover The Complexities of Human Trafficking and Exploitation

The Complexities of Human Trafficking and Exploitation

The Circles of Analysis

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Author:
Craig Barlow

Written by an experienced practitioner, this book offers a unique model to assist professionals and researchers working to prosecute and prevent trafficking and modern slavery.

Publisher:
Policy Press
Publication Date:
27 Nov 2024
Online ISBN:
9781447372486
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.51952/9781447372486
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Front Matter
Front Matter
1: Introduction
2: Concepts of trafficking, slavery and organised crime
3: Trafficking, modern slavery and exploitation: degrees of organisation
4: Trafficking and modern slavery: complex patterns of exploitation
5: Why here? Why now? The conducive environment
6: Possibility spaces: tightening and loosening of environments and interactions
7: The Circles of Analysis: a complex systems model of trafficking and modern slavery
8: Conclusion
Back Matter
References
Index

Traffickers are ever more sophisticated in their recruitment and control of victims, their seizure of new opportunities and ability to adapt to changing social conditions and efforts to prevent the trade in human beings.

This book presents a unique model to assist professionals, researchers and policy makers by providing a new theory that describes and explains how patterns of trafficking and exploitation emerge and are sustained over time.

It critically evaluates the international development of current legal, policy and practice developments in the field of anti-trafficking and argues that these are based on overly simplistic and reductive analyses of the problem. As such they are inadequate in addressing the complex, non-linear and adaptive nature of the phenomenon.

Focusing on factors that influence the relationships and interactions between the victim, offender and environment, this innovative model equips professionals to consider prevention, protection, intervention and disruption activity rather than limiting action to criminal justice-related outcomes.

Each point is illustrated with case study examples from the author’s own practice experience and research and from the work of his colleagues involved in investigating, disrupting and prosecuting traffickers and identifying and supporting victims towards safety and recovery.

Craig Barlow is a leading practitioner and trainer in the field of human trafficking, modern slavery and child sexual and criminal exploitation. He is an Honorary Research Fellow at the Wilberforce Institute, University of Hull and The Bakhita Centre for Research on Human Trafficking, Slavery and Abuse, St Mary’s University.

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Copyright:
© Bristol University Press 2025
Paperback ISBN:
9781447372462
ePub ISBN:
9781447372479
Online ISBN:
9781447372486
Page Extent:
214
Keywords:
Trafficking; Exploitation; Complexity; Systems; Organised Crime
Global Social Challenges:
Conflict, Security and Peace, Justice, Law and Human Rights, Poverty, Inequality and Social Justice, Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Approaches
Sustainable Development Goals:
Goal 3: Good Health and Well-being, Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities, Goal 12: Responsible Consumption and Production, Goal 16: Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
Subject:
Criminology, Criminal Justice, Criminology, Organised Crime, Policing, Social Harm, General Non-Fiction, Law and Policing, Social Research Methods and Research Practices, Subject-Specific Research Methods, Social Work, Child Protection, Child Abuse and Child Sexual Exploitation, Policy and Law in Social Work, Safeguarding Adults
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