Criminological Profile of Persons Involved in Trafficking in Women for the Purpose of Prostitution
- DOI
- 10.2991/aebmr.k.210826.027How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- human trafficking, sexual exploitation, violence against women, criminological profile
- Abstract
Trafficking in persons by transporting women abroad for the purpose of sexual exploitation by means of deception, fraud, blackmail, by taking advantage of the victim’s vulnerable state, through threat or use of violence, as well as by taking advantage of the victim’s financial or other dependence on the offenders, is a form of gender-based violence against women. This study contains an analysis of all sentences of Ukrainian courts of first instance over a 5-year period - from 2016 to 2020 - in cases involving this category of crimes. The number of instances where women are transported abroad for the purpose of sexual exploitation by means of deception, fraud, blackmail, by taking advantage of the victim’s vulnerable state, through threat or use of violence, as well as by taking advantage of the victim’s financial or other dependence on the offenders is rising every year. In light of this, there exists an urgent need for a study that would provide a criminological profile of the perpetrators as well as suggest effective measures for combating such crimes.
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- © 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Oleksandr Kulyk AU - Taras Protsenko AU - Alina Riamzina PY - 2021 DA - 2021/08/27 TI - Criminological Profile of Persons Involved in Trafficking in Women for the Purpose of Prostitution BT - Proceedings of the International Conference on Business, Accounting, Management, Banking, Economic Security and Legal Regulation Research (BAMBEL 2021) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 155 EP - 159 SN - 2352-5428 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/aebmr.k.210826.027 DO - 10.2991/aebmr.k.210826.027 ID - Kulyk2021 ER -