RT Article
T1 Police failure in identifying victims of human trafficking for sexual exploitation: an empirical study in Vietnam
JF Journal of crime and justice
VO 43
IS 4
SP 502
OP 517
A1 Nguyen, Oanh
A2 Luong, Hai Thanh
A2 Le, Toan Quang
LA English
YR 2020
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1778960936
AB Police officers are considered as key actors in responding to the illicit trade in people in Vietnam. Based on 150 surveys and 25 in-depth interviews with these officers in five provinces/cities and one ministerial agency, this study explores challenges in identifying victims of sex trafficking. This research determined some police-related obstacles to identification, including lack of priority for identification of victims, stigmatization of sex workers, ignorance of ethnic minorities’ immigration for work, low quality of training courses, weaknesses in foreign and ethnic minorities’ languages, and ineffectiveness of interagency cooperation. The purpose of underlining such problems is to confirm that police weakness may contribute to lowered number of identified victims of sex trafficking.
K1 Victims of sex trafficking
K1 Challenges
K1 Police
K1 Vietnam
DO 10.1080/0735648X.2020.1724816