Immoral Trafficking of Women and Children : Transnational Crime and Legal Process

Contents: Foreword. Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. International concern and instruments to combat cross border trafficking of women and children. 3. Legal framework in India and some other countries to combat human trafficking with special reference to trafficking of women and children. 4. Implementation of trafficking laws in perspective of cross border trafficking. 5. Victimological study of women and children as victims of transnational crime of trafficking. 6. Conclusion. Bibliography. Index.
 
"Human trafficking today is worlds third largest organized crime. The author in this book has delineated the contours of cross border trafficking in India, analysed the national legal mechanisms and International legal instruments for combating immoral trafficking and suggested the adoption of possible measures to combat the crime. The present legal framework 'results in revictimisation of the victims" and "exploiters mostly go scot free". The legal system should be turned in a manner so that the trafficker and the customer and not the victim is punished. There is the need to provide 'special assistance' to the victims during the prosecution process which should make a difference in dealing with victims and offender.

What is also required is the integration and rehabilitation of the victims of the social abuse within the societal mainstream. The author suggests the formation of an Inter-Governmental Task Force on Trafficking and a Joint Initiative on Trafficking involving all international agencies. Preventive and rehabilitative measures require to go hand in hand in dealing with this organized crime." (jacket)