Female sex trafficking is a pressing concern. In this article, we provide a comprehensive
overview of relevant issues regarding the concept of female sex trafficking and research in …

Abstract Representations of trafficking and forced labour are pervasive within media,
policymaking, and humanitarian debates, discourses and interventions. The terms …

Winner of the 2014 British Society of Criminology Book Prize This book examines the role of
criminal law in the enforcement of immigration controls over the last two decades in Britain …

Human trafficking is an issue that has grabbed the attention of the world over the past 15
years. But meaningful progress and research are still held back by a number of debates …

This article employs a range of sources to critically explore the role of children and young
people in county lines drug dealing, the potential harms they are exposed to and the …

Transgender (hereafter: trans) people are rarely included in human trafficking research. This
empirical study presents narratives of trans individuals who report experiences consistent …

The emergence of “county lines” drug dealing, a supply model which sees drug dealers
travel from urban hubs to provincial locations to retail heroin and crack cocaine, is now …

Human trafficking as a global phenomenon continues to elude accurate quantitative
measure, and remains a controversial policy domain significantly influenced by anecdotal …

Contrary to widespread belief, human trafficking operations are characterized by significant
costs, particularly monitoring costs, and diseconomies of scale. How do traffickers achieve …

Female offenders are seldom studied by criminological scholars. This is certainly the case
regarding offenses like human trafficking and sexual exploitation. However, the number of …