Human Trafficking and Sexual Exploitation around the World

Malsch Marijke :

Marijke Malsch is a professor of Empirical Legal studies, Open Universiteit Netherlands, and fellow at the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement (NSCR).Janssen Janine :

Janine Janssen is a professor of Criminology and Legal Anthropology at Open Universiteit Netherlands, professor of Violence in Relations of Dependency at Avans University of Applied Sciences and at the Police Academy.

The chapters connect by examining human trafficking from multiple angles—legal, social, practical, and empirical—creating a comprehensive narrative that addresses both the challenges and potential solutions in combating human trafficking and supporting the rights and well-being of individuals in the sex industry.

– Lisa R. Muftic, Western New England University

“This book offers a nuanced and comprehensive overview of current debates in antitrafficking discourse. The editors foreground the book with a necessary questioning of the forced/free binary which is integral for examining the continuum of harm and risk that sex workers and victim-survivors face. I recommend this text to all scholars and students interested in forced/free labour sex industry, and gendered inequality. … This is a very valuable and timely book, and the editors have done an excellent job in bringing a range of authors together.”

– Dr Gemma Ahearne, Senior Lecturer in Criminology, University of Liverpool