• 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  

 

Student assessment

 

This section provides suggestions for post-class assignments for the purpose of assessing student understanding of the Module. Suggestions for pre-class or in-class assignments are provided in the Exercises section.

As noted in the Module, victims' testimonies in trafficking cases appear to be key to successfully prosecute traffickers, and yet they pose many challenges. Ask your students to write an essay identifying the challenges of collecting and using testimonies from trafficked victims and suggesting ways to overcome these challenges, within a victim-centred approach, and with the aim to increase successful prosecution of trafficking cases. Essays should be no longer than 2500 words.

 

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