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Human Trafficking Finances

Evidence from Three European Countries

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Authors:
  1. Georgios A. Antonopoulos

    1. School of Social Sciences and Law, Teesside University, Middlesbrough, UK

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  2. Andrea Di Nicola

    1. Faculty of Law, University of Trento, Trento, Italy

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  3. Atanas Rusev

    1. Security Program, Centre for the Study of Democracy, Sofia, Bulgaria

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  4. Fiamma Terenghi

    1. Faculty of Law, University of Trento, Trento, Italy

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  • 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

Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Criminology (BRIEFSCRIMINOL)

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Table of contents (3 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxii
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  2. Human Trafficking and Its Financial Management in Bulgaria

    • Georgios A. Antonopoulos, Andrea Di Nicola, Atanas Rusev, Fiamma Terenghi
    Pages 1-26

  3. Human Trafficking and Its Financial Management in Italy

    • Georgios A. Antonopoulos, Andrea Di Nicola, Atanas Rusev, Fiamma Terenghi
    Pages 27-54

  4. Human Trafficking and Its Financial Management in the United Kingdom

    • Georgios A. Antonopoulos, Andrea Di Nicola, Atanas Rusev, Fiamma Terenghi
    Pages 55-82

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 83-87
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About this book

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.




Authors and Affiliations

  • School of Social Sciences and Law, Teesside University, Middlesbrough, UK

    Georgios A. Antonopoulos

  • Faculty of Law, University of Trento, Trento, Italy

    Andrea Di Nicola, Fiamma Terenghi

  • Security Program, Centre for the Study of Democracy, Sofia, Bulgaria

    Atanas Rusev

About the authors

Georgios A. Antonopoulos is a research professor of Criminology and the Director of Research at the Centre for Crime, Harm Prevention and Security at Teesside University.

Andrea di Nicola is the scientific coordinator for the research activities at eCrime, and a member of the Faculty of Law at the University of Trento.


Atanas Rusev is the program coordinator the the Security Program at the Center for study of Democracy in Sofia, Bulgaria.


Fiamma Terenghi is a research fellow in Criminology at the Faculty of Law, University of Trento and a member of eCrime.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Human Trafficking Finances

  • Book Subtitle: Evidence from Three European Countries

  • Authors: Georgios A. Antonopoulos, Andrea Di Nicola, Atanas Rusev, Fiamma Terenghi

  • Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Criminology

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17809-3

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-17808-6Published: 26 April 2019

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-17809-3Published: 13 April 2019

  • Series ISSN: 2192-8533

  • Series E-ISSN: 2192-8541

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXII, 87

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 3 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Trafficking, Financial Crime, Human Rights

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