Overview
- Examines the ethical and safety issues involved in studying human trafficking
- Provides various perspectives on observing versus intervening where human victims are involved
- Offers a mix of theoretical perspectives, guidelines and case studies for this important topic
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Studies of Organized Crime (SOOC, volume 13)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Sex Trafficking
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Labour Trafficking
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Child Trafficking
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Organ Trafficking
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About this book
This is a book that every researcher planning to do fieldwork in the difficult field of hidden, illicit and victimized people should read in advance.
Dr. Frank Bovenkerk, Professor (Emeritus), Willem Pompe Institute for Criminal Law and Criminology, Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands
This book allows a peek in the kitchen of empirical fieldwork, going into not only “best practices,” but mistakes made, in a frank, courageous and honest way.
Dr. Brenda C. Oude Breuil, Willem Pompe Institute for Criminal Law and Criminology, Universiteit Utrecht, The NetherlandsEditors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dina Siegel is a professor of Criminology and chair of the Willem Pompe Institute for Criminal Law and Criminology at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. She received her Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology at the VU University, Amsterdam. She has published on the Russian mafia, human trafficking, legalized prostitution, underground banking, XTC trafficking, terrorism, crimes in the diamond industry, and the role of women in criminal organizations. Her most recent books are Traditional Organized Crime in the Modern World (with Henk van de Bunt), Springer, 2012; Mobile banditry. East and Central European Itinerant Criminal Groups in the Netherlands, Eleven International Publishing, 2014. She also published different articles on the position of sex workers and on ethnographic research on prostitution in the Netherlands.
Roos de Wildt is conducting her PhD research in Cultural and Global Criminology at Utrecht University, The Netherlands and the University of Hamburg, Germany. She is studying prostitution and human trafficking for sexual purposes in Kosovo. The aim of this project is to explore how war and a transition process shape these phenomena. She conducted further ethnographic fieldwork on the trafficking of Romanian women to Italy after Romania entered the European Union, the future perspectives of youth in post-conflict Guatemala, prostitution in the Dutch municipality of Almere, child trafficking in The Netherlands and the closing of
designated prostitution areas in Utrecht, The Netherlands. After obtaining her Master of Science in Cultural Anthropology Roos worked as an international project manager at NGOs between 2007 and 2011, during which she was mainly responsible for the implementation of projects in Central and Eastern Europe.Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Ethical Concerns in Research on Human Trafficking
Editors: Dina Siegel, Roos de Wildt
Series Title: Studies of Organized Crime
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21521-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-21520-4Published: 16 December 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-79346-7Published: 27 March 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-21521-1Published: 08 December 2015
Series ISSN: 1571-5493
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 277
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 3 illustrations in colour
Topics: Criminology and Criminal Justice, general, Human Geography, Public Health