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This chapter examines to what extent the two criminal activities by DynCorp, sex trafficking and knowingly endeavoring a cover-up, can in legal terms be viewed as international crimes. Case law supports that when part of a widespread and systematic practice, sex trafficking can be seen as a crime against humanity. In order to legally classify endeavoring a cover-up as an international crime, the Rome Statute mentions knowledge and intent as the two key criteria for criminal liability. In addition, even though both crimes are committed by individuals, this thesis will examine the crimes as organizational crimes, due to the importance of opportunity structures and lack of social control mechanisms on an organizational level that facilitated (the complicity in acts) of sex trafficking.
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Cole, C., Vermeltfoort, R. (2018). Sex Trafficking and Endeavoring a Cover-Up as International Crimes. In: U.S. Government Contractors and Human Trafficking. SpringerBriefs in Criminology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70827-0_11
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