• E4J University Module Series: Trafficking in Persons & Smuggling of Migrants

• Module 9: Criminal Justice Responses to Trafficking in Persons

• Introduction and learning outcomes

• Key issues

• • Criminal justice duties imposed on States by the Protocol against Trafficking in Persons
  • The Role of the Criminal Justice System
  • Current low levels of prosecutions and convictions
  • Challenges to an effective criminal justice response
  • Rights of victims to justice and protection
  • Potential strategies to "turn the tide"

• Exercises

• Possible class structure

• Core reading

• Advanced reading

• Other resources

• Student assessment

• Additional teaching tools

 

Published in May 2019 

 

 

  This module is a resource for lecturers  

 

Core reading

 

This section provides a list of (mostly) open access materials that the lecturer could ask the students to read before taking a class based on this Module.

Materials with this icon can be found in the E4J Library of Resources.

• Brown, G (2011). Women and Children Last: The Prosecution of Sex Traffickers as Sex Offenders and The Need for A Sex Trafficker Registry, Boston College Third World Law Journal,vol. 31, pp. 1-40.
• Chacon, Jennifer M. (2010). Tensions and Trade-Offs: Protecting Trafficking Victims in The Era of Immigration Enforcement , University of Pennsylvania Law Review, vol. 158, pp. 1609-1653.  
• Farrell, Amy, and Rebecca Pfeffer (2014). Policing Human Trafficking: Cultural Blinders and Organizational Barriers, The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, vol. 653, pp.46-64.
• Feller, Leonid (2009-2010). The Jurisdictional Entrapment Defence: An Analytic Framework for Claims of Manufactured Jurisdiction in Child Exploitation Prosecutions, Kentucky Law Journal, vol. 98, pp.103-129. 
• Gallagher, Anne T. (2010). The International Law of Human Trafficking . Cambridge University Press (especially chapter 7).
• GLO.ACT (2017). Hear their voices. Act to protect. Testimonies by victims of human trafficking from around the world 2015-2019 . Vienna: UNODC.
• Human Rights First (2015). How to Disrupt the Business of Human Trafficking - Blueprint for the Administration.
• ILO (2014). Profits and Poverty: The Economics of Forced Labour . Geneva: ILO.
• ILO, Walk Free Foundation, and International Organization for Migration (2017). Global Estimates of Modern Slavery. Geneva: ILO.
• Mattar, Mohamed Y. (2011). Interpreting Judicial Interpretations of The Criminal Statutes of The Trafficking Victims Protection Act: Ten Years Later, American University Journal of Gender Social Policy, vol. 19, pp. 1247-1304.  
• Norwegian Ministry of Justice and the Police (2006). Norwegian Government's Plan of Action to Combat Human Trafficking, (2006-2009).
• OHCHR (2002). Recommended Principles and Guidelines on Human Rights and Human Trafficking.
• OSCE (2014). How to prevent human trafficking for domestic servitude in diplomatic households and protect private domestic workers. Vienna: OSCE.
• The Bali Process (2015). Policy Guide on Protecting Victims of Trafficking: An introductory guide for policy makers and practitioners. Bangkok: The Bali Process.
• The United Nations Convention on Transnational Organized Crime and its Supplementing Protocol against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Sea and Air, 2000.
• The Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings, 2005
• UN General Assembly (1985). Declaration of Basic Principles of Justice for Victims of Crime and Abuse of Power.
• UNODC (2006). Compendium of UN Standards and Norms in Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice. Vienna: UNODC
• UNODC (2008). Toolkit to Combat Trafficking in Persons. Vienna: UNODC
• UNODC (2009). Model Law against Trafficking in Persons. Vienna: UNODC
• UNODC and UN.GIFT (2009). Anti-human Trafficking Manual for Criminal Justice Practitioners. Vienna: UNODC.
• UNODC (2013). UN Principles and Guidelines on Access to Legal Aid in Criminal Justice Systems. New York: UN.
• UNODC (2014a). Global Report on Trafficking in Persons. Vienna: UNODC.
• UNODC (2016). Global Report on Trafficking in Persons. Vienna: UNODC.
• UNODC (2018). Global Report on Trafficking in Persons. Vienna: UNODC.
• UNODC (2017). Evidential Issues in Trafficking in Persons Cases - Case Digest. Vienna: UNODC.
• US Department of State (2018). Trafficking in Persons Report.

 

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