Human trafficking: risk profile of victims and traffickers and the scope of forensic victimology

Human trafficking: risk profile of victims and traffickers and the scope of forensic victimology

Автор: Gopalan R.T.

Журнал: Виктимология @victimologiy

Рубрика: Зарубежный опыт

Статья в выпуске: 2 т.11, 2024 года.

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Human trafficking is a growing problem across the world and the actual estimation of this crime is not yet done due to methodological issues and the underreporting of cases . The victim’s uncooperativeness in many cases or trying to conceal the identity of the victim due to many sociocultural factors poses a barrier to understanding the profile of the victims and traffickers . This article attempts to create a risk profile of victims and human traffickers based on available literature and various factors like gender, children, profession, migration, socioeconomic and cultural factors and political conditions were emphasized . In addition to this, the article focused on the importance of Forensic victimology in the area of human trafficking . The author emphasized that this crime is as important and complicated as sexual abuse/assault and tressed the need for more research in the field of forensic victimology especially on victims and traffickers to understand the dynamics of human trafficking which leads to better profiling, deepened knowledge of entrapment strategies and relationships between victims and traffickers that will help the criminal justice system as well as to make strategies for prevention and interventions . This crime is as important and complicated as sexual abuse/assault .

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Human trafficking, victims, traffickers, risk profile, forensic victimology, criminal justice system

Короткий адрес: https://sciup.org/14131115

IDR: 14131115   |   DOI: 10.47475/2411-0590-2024-11-2-305-315

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