NCJ Number
184191
Editor(s)
Phil Williams
Date Published
1999
Length
245 pages
Annotation
This book examines the dynamics of the sex slave trade in both Europe and Asia, identifies the role of organized crime and considers government and law enforcement agency countermeasures.
Abstract
The volume contains 11 chapters, which discuss: (1) an overview of human commodity trafficking; (2) the role of the Russian Mafia in trafficking in women for forced prostitution; (3) trafficking in people in Thailand; (4) organized crime and trafficking in women from Eastern Europe in the Netherlands; (5) organized crime involvement in the global sex trade; (6) a market perspective on trafficking in women and children; (7) child pornography in the digital age; (8) the fusion of immigration and crime in the European Union--problems of cooperation and the fight against trafficking in women; (9) memorandum from President Clinton to the Secretary of State, the Attorney General, the Administrator of the Agency for International Development and the Director of the United States Information Agency; (10) report of the Secretary-General to the UN General Assembly; and (11) provisional report from the World Congress Against the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children. Notes, tables, index