By using our site, you agree to our collection of information through the use of cookies. To learn more, view our Privacy Policy. To browse Academia. The report Financing of Organised Crime: Human Trafficking in Focus contributes to a better understanding of the financial aspects of this infamous phenomenon.
The analysis explores the sources and mechanisms of the financing of trafficking in human beings, settlement of payments, access to financing in critical moments, costs of business, and the management of profits.
Based on the results of the analysis and the examination of the current practices with regards to financial investigations, the report also suggests recommendations for tackling this crime. The legalisation of prostitution in Germany since , without rigid controls in the location where potential victims of human trafficking prostitute themselves, made Germany an "Eldorado for pimps and brothel managers" Cho, et al.
During the last few years, the number of investigations in the field of human trafficking remained constant. While the proceedings on labour exploitation declined a bit, the police had to cope with a high number of unreported cases in both sexual and labour exploitation. Generally, prostitution and human trafficking are not easy to define, as they undergo constant changes as social phenomena. Although this protocol does not have a status of binding international law, it still has an important impact as a transnational cooperation agreement, where for the first time human trafficking is defined in detail.
In it, the crime is defined as recruitment, transport, accommodation and reception of persons including the threat or exertion of violence or other forms of coercion, kidnapping, fraud, deceit, abuse of power or taking advantage of helpless people or receiving of payments or other benefits in order to obtain an agreement with a person coercing power over another person. Additionally, the perpetrator has to have the intention to exploit the victim sexually. This is being sanctioned by a fine or imprisonment up to five years.
