Combating Human Trafficking: Gaps In Policy And Law Hardcover

India

Veerendra Mishra

This book demystifies the term "trafficking" with a view to properly understand its trends, dimensions, and gaps in policy and law that need to be plugged. Combating Human Trafficking aims to initiate fresh discussion on human trafficking, and offers recommendations to curb organized international crime. It explores varied dimensions of the crime and offers further classification to help effectively address the problem. It presents a new perspective of identifying assimilative interaction between social and criminal justice systems, the progressive growth in socio-criminal legislations, and the universal demand of multi-agency approach to combat trafficking. Through the Brute Mute theory, it gives an illustrative description of micro- and macro-governance, and offers a global perspective to the problem with examples and case studies.Table of Contents:List of Figures Preface Acknowledgments Revisiting Definition of Human Trafficking Diverse Perspectives to Combat Human Trafficking Broadening Dimensions of Human Trafficking Commercial Sexual Exploitation Labor Trafficking and Other Dimensions Dynamics of Cause and Effect: Challenge to Social Justice System Gaps in Law Enforcement: Challenge to Criminal Justice System Multiple Agency Approach and Partnership Wayward Justice: Brute Mute Theory Socio-criminal Legislations: A New Dimension to Criminal Justice System Waiting for Ethical Justice: Case of Bedia Community and Native Americans The Way Forward: Recommendations Index About the Author

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English

Sage Publications India Pvt Ltd

11 Aug 2015

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Veerendra Mishra is Secretary, Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA), Ministry of Women and Child Development, Government of India. Earlier, he was Assistant Inspector General (CID) with Madhya Pradesh Police. He was awarded the prestigious Hubert Humphrey Fellowship (under Fulbright Scholarship) on the subject of human trafficking during 2012-2013. He has extensively studied the workings of police-both local police bodies and international bodies such as the United Nations Police (UNPOL). He served in three UN missions-in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo, and East Timor. He stayed in East Timor for five months and was instrumental in preparing training modules for community policing training to community members of the country, as a pro-bono consultant of the Asia Foundation. Dr Mishra did his PhD on "Changing Image of Police: An Empirical Study" from Barkatullah University, Bhopal, in 2004. He has authored a book titled Community Policing: Misnomer or Fact (SAGE, 2011) and edited another book, Human Trafficking: The Stakeholders' Perspective (SAGE, 2013). He also writes fiction; he has written a short-story book, and contributed stories in the Chicken Soup Soul series. He recently co-produced and co-directed a documentary film titled Do I Have a Choice, which is on the community-based sexual exploitation of Bedia community.

[The book] aims to initiate fresh discussion on human trafficking along with recommendations to curb organized international crime...presents a new perspective of identifying assimilative interaction between social and criminal justice systems.... Indeed an exhaustive work, which will be valuable to scholars, researchers and government officials involved in the process. -- USI Journal, October - December 2015