Citation

Winterdyk J, Reichel P. Eur. J. Criminol. 2010; 7(1): 5-10.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2010, European Society of Criminology, Publisher SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/1477370809347894

PMID

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Abstract

This special issue focuses on a crime that has been classified by the United Nations as the third most profitable crime in the world - human trafficking (Fichtelberg 2008). The international contributions in this issue cover a range of key social, economic, political and legal issues as they relate to human trafficking. The genesis for this collection evolved out of a major project led by Philip Reichel which was completed in 2007. Reichel and an international team examined Canadian and US practices of combating human trafficking. In addition, the project explored a range of initiatives used in Europe and proposed by the United Nations. 2 Before presenting an overview of the articles, we thought it instructive to provide a synopsis of some of the fundamental issues involved in human trafficking. Our thinking was that a brief discussion of these more general, descriptive, theoretical and practical issues would provide some context for readers unfamiliar with the subject of human trafficking.

Language: en