Human Traffic and Transnational Crime: Eurasian and American Perspectives

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Sally W. Stoecker, Louise I. Shelley
Rowman & Littlefield, 2005 - Political Science - 161 pages
Human Trafficking is a growing transnational criminal phenomenon-conservative estimates put the total number of persons trafficked globally at two million per year. In Human Traffic and Transnational Crime, criminologists, sociologists, and demographers from European, Siberian, and far-eastern parts of Russia offer the first in-depth, scholarly study of human trafficking in Russia and Ukraine, their groundbreaking work defines the motivations behind and reactions to this horrifying trend.
 

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Human Trafficking A New Challenge for Russia and the United States
13
Criminal Transportation of Persons Trends and Recommendations
29
Classifying the Elements of Human Trafficking Crimes
47
Russian and Chinese Trafficking A Comparative Perspective
63
Trafficking in Women in the Russian Far East A Real or Imaginary Phenomenon?
79
Female Labor Migration Trends and Human Trafficking Policy Recommendations
95
An Evaluation of Ukrainian Legislation to Counter and Criminalize Human Trafficking
115
Legal Cases Prosecuted under the Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act of 2000
125
Selected Bibliography
151
Index
155
About the Contributors
159
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