Human trafficking for sex, labour and domestic servitude: how do key trafficking types compare and what are their predictors?

Combatting trafficking in human beings is a well-established social policy and crime prevention priority for the twenty-first Century. Human trafficking, as defined in international law, can occur for diverse exploitative purposes. Yet, different forms of trafficking are routinely conflated in resea...

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Gender differences
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Individual differences
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Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure Law
Criminology and Criminal Justice
Gender differences
Human trafficking
Individual differences
International law
Intervention
Kidnapping
Law and Criminolgy
Political Science
Sex industry
Social policy
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