Interviews with Human Traffickers: Perceptions of Sex and Violence
Document Type
Book Section
Publication Date
11-10-2016
Publication Title
Broadening the Scope of Human Trafficking
Publisher
Carolina Academic Press
Edition
2
First page number:
1
Last page number:
27
Abstract
Many who study human trafficking acknowledge gaps in the literature. We have yet to understand the phenomenon of human trafficking from the perspective of the human trafficker. This chapter analyzes perceptions of trafficking for the international sex trade industry as articulated by human traffickers who traffic women and girls. This chapter presents an analysis of interviews with human traffickers that will highlight personalized accounts of sex and violence. Further enhancing our limited knowledge of the human trafficking phenomenon, these narratives will help fill in the gaps of previous research, while also complementing current research on sex trafficking specifically. Discussions with human traffickers will promote an understanding of sex trafficking as embedded within a patriarchal world system that both thrives on and sustains the trafficking of women and girls for sexual exploitation.
Keywords
Human trafficking; Sex trade industry; Trafficking women and girls; Sex and violence; Sexual exploitation
Disciplines
Criminology and Criminal Justice | Legal Studies | Social and Behavioral Sciences
Language
English
Repository Citation
Troshynski, E. I.,
Blank, J. K.
(2016).
Interviews with Human Traffickers: Perceptions of Sex and Violence.
Broadening the Scope of Human Trafficking
1-27.
Carolina Academic Press.