How organized is labour trafficking?: on the involvement of organized criminal groups in labour exploitation
Human traffickers are usually depicted in public discourse as evil villains: the crème de la crème of organized crime. Although this image has also been dominant among scholars for a long time, it has become increasingly controversial. On the one hand, this debate is fuelled by discussions amongst c...
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| Format: | Electronic/Print Article |
| Language: | English |
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2024
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New forms of human trafficking
Year: 2024, Pages: 239-254 |
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Volltext (doi) |
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| Summary: | Human traffickers are usually depicted in public discourse as evil villains: the crème de la crème of organized crime. Although this image has also been dominant among scholars for a long time, it has become increasingly controversial. On the one hand, this debate is fuelled by discussions amongst criminologists on criminal networks, on the other hand by the expansion of the legal definition of the crime since 2005. Apart from sexual exploitation, various other forms of human trafficking are distinguished now, including labor exploitation. This chapter explores the question of which organizational forms play a role in labor exploitation. Through a review of the empirical research literature on labor exploitation, the authors show that in the field of labor exploitation, there is probably less involvement in criminal syndicates or criminal networks that maintain contacts with other criminal networks. In many cases, labor exploitation is committed by individuals or family businesses, or smaller loosely organized networks that are not necessarily embedded in other criminal networks. For researchers and policymakers alike, it is therefore advisable not to approach labor exploitation exclusively from the perspective of transnational organized crime. |
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| Item Description: | Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 252-253 |
| ISBN: | 9783031397318 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/978-3-031-39732-5_14 |