ICJ 730 Human Trafficking

This course explores human trafficking – 21st century slavery – in terms of its causes, manifestations, controls and responses in an international context. It examines the definitions of human trafficking and the various socio-legal instruments to identify, measure and combat it. Students will also consider the methodological challenges in gathering data on this complex and dynamic phenomenon. The course takes an interdisciplinary approach to analyze human trafficking as a criminal justice issue, an organized crime problem, its aspects of supply and demand, immigration and migration, and the larger frameworks of poverty, gender inequality and human rights. In addition to examining victim and perpetrator characteristics, students will consider and assess strategies of prevention, victim protection and the cultural and political contexts of the global scope of the problem.