Combating Human Trafficking: Gaps in Policy and Law (Hardcover-2024)

About the Book: This book demystifies the term "trafficking" with a view to properly understand its trends, dimensions, and gaps in policy and law that need to be plugged. Combating Human Trafficking aims to initiate fresh discussion on human trafficking, and offers recommendations to curb organized international crime. It explores varied dimensions of the crime and offers further classification to help effectively address the problem. It presents a new perspective of identifying assimilative interaction between social and criminal justice systems, the progressive growth in socio-criminal legislations, and the universal demand of multi-agency approach to combat trafficking. Through the Brute Mute theory, it gives an illustrative description of micro- and macro-governance, and offers a global perspective to the problem with examples and case studies.

About the Author: Veerendra Mishra is an Indian Police Service (IPS) officer of the Madhya Pradesh Cadre. An international expert on the subject of human trafficking, he is founder of RACE (Research, Advocacy and Capacity Building against Exploitation) Lab, India’s first antihuman trafficking lab. Additionally, he is a recipient of the Hubert Humphrey and Kalinga Fellowships, and has authored several other books on human trafficking, including Human Trafficking: The Stakeholders' Perspective (2013) and Community Policing: A Misnomer or Reality (2011).