HUMAN TRAFFICKING

• Published in: Journal of Criminal Investigations Vol. 10; no. 1; p. 80
• Main Authors: Cosmin, Ivan Constantin, Leonard, Vasile
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Bucharest Legal Publishing House (Universul Juridic) 01.01.2016
• Subjects: Crime prevention; Human rights; Human trafficking; Victims of crime
• ISSN: 2247-9503

Increasing freedom of movement of citizens leads to an increase in their vulnerability in the face of job offers seemingly more favorable, behind which are hiding trafficking networks. In these circumstances, it becomes extremely important to disseminate useful information to the most vulnerable groups. Slavery or other similar processes of deprivation of freedom or servitude refers to the condition of a person over whom it is exercised any power, consisting in order to live in a space required and to provide certain specific activities, without being given the opportunity subject to change. In the case of human trafficking, the victims are transformed from free persons in a mere object of propriety, like any other good, being treated as a commodity that brings income. Victims (women, men and children) are virtually enslaved and turned into objects at the mercy of exploiters, traffickers, using methods of coercion of the most diverse, including: violence, blackmail, psychological terror, enslave them and dehumanize them. In this context, the formulation of coherent policy to prevent and combat human trafficking, a process that encounter a number of difficulties arising primarily from ignorance of the real dimensions of the phenomenon, due to the mobility of large, intense movement across borders of people and goods, and, secondly, from obscurity phenomenon, ensured by maintaining its manifestations in the context of apparently legal activities.