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- Title
Human Trafficking and Sexual Servitude: Organised Crime's Involvement in Australia.
- Authors
Langhorn, Mark
- Abstract
This study examined the context of organised crime groups that traffic in people for the Australian sex industry. It is a qualitative study of twenty-one cases of human trafficking. The study found that criminal networks preyed on vulnerable females from countries such as Thailand, South Korea, and China. Victims were deceptively recruited with the cost of their travel to Australia held against them as a highly inflated debt. As a result, they find themselves forced into sex work to repay the debt. This study examined the attributes of the organised crime syndicates involved in the people trafficking and discussed the context in which they operate in Australia. The study used the Sleipnir framework to analyse organised crime groups and it is recommended that the Sleipnir model is integrated into future law enforcement activities in respect of human trafficking. The introduction of a standardised data and statistical collection tool in respect of human trafficking would provide law enforcement and intelligence agencies with a conceptual framework and a greater comprehensive description of human trafficking.
- Subjects
HUMAN trafficking; HUMAN trafficking victims; ORGANIZED crime; LAW enforcement; SEX crimes
- Publication
Salus Journal, 2018, Vol 6, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
2202-5677
- Publication type
Article