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

• Module 14: Links between Cybercrime, Trafficking in Persons and Smuggling of Migrants

• Introduction and learning outcomes

• Key issues

• • Use of technology to facilitate trafficking in persons and smuggling of migrants
  • Technology facilitating trafficking in persons
  • Technology in smuggling of migrants
  • Using technology to prevent and combat TIP and SOM
  • Privacy and data concerns
  • Emerging trends

• 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  

 

Advanced reading

 

The following readings are recommended for students interested in exploring the topics of this Module in more detail, and for lecturers teaching the Module:

• Foot, K. A., A. Toft and N. Cesare (2015). Developments in Anti-Trafficking Efforts: 2008-2011, Journal of Human Trafficking, vol. 1, pp. 136-155.
• Gacinya, John (2018). Analyzing the influence of Information and Communication Technology on the scourge of human trafficking in Rwanda, Academy of Social Science Journal, vol. 3, pp. 1095-1102.
• Gerry F., J. Muraszkiewicz and N. Vavoula (2016). The role of technology in the fight against human trafficking: reflections on privacy and data protection concerns,   Computer Law & Security Review, vol. 32, pp. 205-217.
• Khorshed, Adam and Sophia Imran (2015). The Digital Divide and Social Inclusion among Refugee Migrants: A Case in Regional Australia, Information Technology and People, vol. 28, pp. 344-365.
• Maras, Marie-Helen (2016). Cybercriminology. Oxford University Press.
• Maras, Marie-Helen (2017). Online Classified Advertisement Sites: Pimps and Facilitators of Prostitution and Sex Trafficking?, Journal of Internet Law, vol. 21, pp. 17-21.
• Stalans, Loretta J. and Mary A. Finn (2016). Understanding How the Internet Facilitates Crime and Deviance, Victims & Offenders, vol. 11, pp. 501-508.

 

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