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Trafficking in Human Beings

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Human trafficking; THB; TIP; Trafficking in persons

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Trafficking in human beings (THB) concerns the exploitation of vulnerable individuals for the purpose of financial profit. Victims of trafficking, women but also men and children, fall prey to different forms of exploitation, such as forced labor or services, slavery, servitude, or the removal of organs. However, the most frequently reported type of trafficking is the one that results in the exploitation of women in the sex industry. This contribution focuses particularly on this type of trafficking.

The concept of THB came into use in the early twentieth century in connection with white slavery, a term then referring to forced or fraudulent recruitment of women and girls for prostitution. Currently THB refers to a broader phenomenon that can be approached from different perspectives, for example, as a public order problem, a migration issue, a criminal justice issue, a violation of human rights, or a combination...

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Administration of Justice, Legislations, and International and Aliens Affairs (RWI), Research and Documentation Centre (WODC) of the Dutch Ministry of Security and Justice, The Hague, Netherlands

    Monika Smit

  2. Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement (NSCR) and Faculty of Law, VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Peter van der Laan

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  1. Monika Smit
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Correspondence to Monika Smit .

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement (NSCR), Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Gerben Bruinsma

  2. VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Gerben Bruinsma

  3. Department of Criminology, Law and Society, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA

    David Weisburd

  4. Faculty of Law, The Hebrew University, Mt. Scopus, Jerusalem, Israel

    David Weisburd

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Smit, M., van der Laan, P. (2014). Trafficking in Human Beings. In: Bruinsma, G., Weisburd, D. (eds) Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5690-2_631

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