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Trafficking of women for sexual purposes
- AIC research project
Description
The Australian Government Office for Women has commissioned the Australian Institute of Criminology to undertake research into various aspects of sexual assault as part of the Australian Government's Women's Safety Agenda. This includes the research project 'Trafficking of women for sexual purposes: improving detection and identification of victims, ensuring effective investigations and prosecutions'.
The project will investigate:
- Known barriers and best practices to detecting trafficking and identifying victims.
- Known barriers and best practices to ensuring effective investigations and prosecutions of trafficking cases.
- Lessons learnt from known trafficking cases in Australia about victim identification, detection and reporting, and investigation and prosecution of alleged traffickers.
- Implications for policy and practice.
The methodology to be employed includes:
- a review of international literature
- interviews with a range of Australian stakeholders on experiences and lessons learnt from the field
- analysis of existing known trafficking cases in Australia.
Publications
- Human trafficking to Australia : a research challenge
- Law enforcement responses to trafficking in persons : challenges and emerging good practice