• 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  

 

Other resources

 

• Apel, Robert (2013).Sanctions, Perceptions, and Crime: Implications for Criminal Deterrence, Journal of Quantitative Criminology, vol. 29, pp. 67-101
• Council of Europe (2017). CCPE Opinion No. 12 (2017): The role of prosecutors in relation to the rights of victims and witnesses in criminal proceedings
• ICAT (2016). A Toolkit for guidance in designing and evaluating counter-trafficking programmes Harnessing accumulated knowledge to respond to trafficking in persons. Vienna: UNODC
• IOM (2007). The IOM Handbook on Direct Assistance for Victims of Trafficking . Geneva: IOM
• Mendes, Silvia M. (2004). Certainty, Severity, and Their Relative Deterrent Effects: Questioning the Implications of the Role of Risk in Criminal Deterrence Policy, The Policy Studies Journal, vol. 32, pp. 59-74
• Office for Victims of Crime, Training and Technical Assistance Center (undated). The Victim as a Witness . Washington DC: Office of Justice Programs
• Paternoster, Raymond (2010). How Much Do We Really Know about Criminal Deterrence, Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, vol. 100, pp. 765-823
• UNODC (2008). Appropriate Legal Responses to Combating Trafficking in Persons in Afghanistan . Vienna: UNODC
• UNODC, Inter-Parliamentary Union and UN.GIFT (2009). Combating Trafficking in Persons, A Handbook for Parliamentarians . Vienna: UNODC
• UNODC (2014b). The Status and Role of Prosecutors A United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and International Association of Prosecutors Guide. Vienna: UNODC
• Yi, Beh Lih (2018). Fishermen long for justice as Thailand comes under U.N. scrutiny, Reuters, 29 March
• United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offender (1990).  Basic Principles on the Role of Lawyers  (Havana Principles).  Havana: UN.
• UNODC (2007). Commentary on the Bangalore Principles of Judicial Conduct . Vienna: UNODC

 

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