The Field of Human Trafficking

This volume cover topics such as trafficking in higher education, trafficking of men, and trafficking terminology among others. It will be a resource for academics, researchers, and advanced students of criminology and criminal justice. This book expands on the present state of human trafficking research. It presents contributions from leading researchers across the globe who gathered at the inaugural International Conference on Human Trafficking Research (ICHTR) held at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska, USA in May of 2019. This insightful volume highlights the diversity of scholarly work and perspectives presented at the conference, showcasing a variety of topics, methodologies, geographies, and populations. Chapters cover topics such as trafficking in higher education, trafficking of men, and trafficking terminology among others. The authors use different methodologies for their studies, including interviews, secondary data, and Community-Based Participatory Action Research. Different geographic areas are also represented, including populations in the United States and Ethiopia. The Field of Human Trafficking: Expanding on the Present State of Research will be a key resource for academics, researchers, and advanced students of criminology and criminal justice, law, public policy, law enforcement, public affairs and government, research methods, and sociology. This book was originally published as a special issue of Journal of Human Trafficking.