Child Trafficking in the EU Policing and Protecting Europe’s Most Vulnerable

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Drawing on empirical research conducted with police in the UK and Romania Child Trafficking in the EU explores the way in which the ‘who’ and ‘how’ we police and protect as trafficker and trafficked is related to Western notions of innocence guilt childhood and of the status of ‘deserving’ victim. This book progresses a new theoretical space by linking its analysis to sociologies of mobility marginalisation and the pluralised rendering of criminalised and victimised ‘others’. This book explores core contextual themes surrounding the commission response to and origins of child trafficking and presents empirical research into the investigation of child trafficking within the EU situating the authors’ findings against broader social cultural political policy and judicial contexts. The authors conclude with a synthetisation of the key themes and arguments to situate pan-EU child trafficking within political criminal justice organisational cultural and social contexts and consider the degree to which such criminality can be can adequately addressed by current and emerging approaches given such enduring and persistent structural issues. This book will be of interest to scholars and students within the fields of criminology sociology political science and law as well as a key resource for practitioners and activists. | Child Trafficking in the EU Policing and Protecting Europe’s Most Vulnerable