The Domestication of Human Trafficking
Law, Policing, and Prosecution in Canada
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- Initial publish date
- Dec 2022
- Category
- General, Criminology, General
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781487524715
- Publish Date
- Dec 2022
- List Price
- $39.95
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9781487506971
- Publish Date
- Dec 2022
- List Price
- $90.00
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781487535353
- Publish Date
- Nov 2022
- List Price
- $39.95
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Description
Human trafficking has emerged as one of the top international and domestic policy concerns, and is well covered and often sensationalized by the media. The nature of the topic combined with various international pressures has resulted in an array of government-led mandates to combat the issue.
The Domestication of Human Trafficking examines Canada’s criminal justice approaches to human trafficking, with a particular focus on the ways in which the intersecting factors of race, class, gender, and sexuality impact practice. Using a wide range of qualitative and empirically grounded research methods, including extensive analysis of court documents, trial transcripts, and interviews with criminal justice actors, this book contributes to much-needed research that examines, specifies, and sometimes complicates the narratives of how trafficking works as a criminal offence. The Domestication of Human Trafficking turns our attention to the ways in which the offence of human trafficking is made on the front lines of criminal justice efforts in Canada.
About the author
Katrin Roots is an assistant professor in the Department of Criminology at Wilfrid Laurier University. She has researched Canada’s anti-trafficking efforts for over a decade and is the author of The Domestication of Human Trafficking: Law, Policing and Prosecution in Canada. She is also the co-author of numerous peer-reviewed articles and book chapters on trafficking law, enforcement and policing technologies and the co-editor (with Mariful Alam and Patrick Dwyer) of Violence, Imagination and Resistance: Socio-Legal Interrogations of Power.