Learning from Failure in Human Trafficking

Learning from failure in human trafficking law, policy and practice: an introduction; PART I: Conceptual failures: overcoming definitional limits on effective action 1. Human trafficking for labour exploitation: a problematic conceptualisation and its repercussions in the identification of victims; 2. Child criminal exploitation and human trafficking: tackling conceptual conundrums; 3. Prostitution and human trafficking: they are not the same, nor will exploitation end by abolishing sex work; 4. Human trafficking in the digital age: mapping the current criminological landscape and charting future frontiers; PART II: Operational failures: filling the gaps in identification, protection, and justice 5. Beyond the trafficker‑victim binary: criminal exploitation and the limits of victim identification in cross‑border drug cases in Chile; 6. The survivor‑perpetrator paradox in the ICC’s Dominic Ongwen case: trafficking, coercion, and culpability; 7. Beyond criminalisation: lessons from Europe’s non‑punishment failures for Southeast Asia’s cyber‑scam victims; 8. Educating healthcare providers about human trafficking: challenges and opportunities; PART III: Structural failures: innovating system design, recovery, and survivor engagement 9. Repositioning the role of information and communication technologies and artificial intelligence in the fight against human trafficking;10. Sex trafficking of Romanian women in the UK: lessons from post‑trafficking trajectories and survivors’ perspectives on recovery;11. The recovery and reflection period: analysis and proposals amidst the transformation of the EU anti‑trafficking framework;12. Lived experience as expertise: making inclusion in exploitation research the rule rather than the exception