This unique volume addresses the financial mechanisms that enable human trafficking - its actors, structures, and logistics. Viewing each stage of the market, human traffickers may need significant financial resources for recruitment, transportation, and exploitation.
Drawing upon cross-disciplinary research expertise in criminology, sociology, law and economics, this book offers insights from law enforcement officers, policy makers, NGOs, and traffickers and their victims. Using three European countries - Bulgaria, Italy and the United Kingdom - it provides an account on the sources of capital for initiating and sustaining a human trafficking scheme, discussing the involvement of criminal structures, legitimate businesses, financial institutions, and information and communication technologies in the running of these enterprises. It also addresses the ways in which entrepreneurs and customers settle payments, the costs of conducting business in human trafficking, and how profits from the business are spent and invested.
This important contribution to the transnational organized crime knowledge base will be of interest to researchers and academics, as well as law enforcement, regulatory agencies, and policy makers combating human trafficking.

Analyzes the financial management of human trafficking, the first volume of its kind Sources data through a variety of qualitative and quantitative research methods, and integrates the experiences and insights of law enforcement officers, policy makers, NGOs, and traffickers and their victims Grounded in empirical research, this integrates a theoretical framework to engage with debates on crime and society, organized crime, and mutating criminal markets

Autorentext

Georgios A. Antonopoulos is Professor of Criminology at Teesside University, UK. Gabriele Baratto is Research Fellow in Criminology at the University of Trento, Italy. Andrea Di Nicola is Associate Professor of Criminology at the University of Trento, Italy. Parisa Diba is Research Associate at Teesside University, UK. Elisa Martini is former Research Fellow in Criminology at the University of Trento, Italy. Georgios Papanicolaou is Reader in Criminology at Teesside University, UK. Fiamma Terenghi is Research Fellow in Criminology at the University of Trento, Italy.

Inhalt
Introduction.- Human Trafficking and its Financial Management in Bulgaria.- Human Trafficking and its Financial Management in Italy.- Human Trafficking and its Financial Management in the United Kingdom.- Conclusion.