Citation

Estiarte CV, Rosell NT. Revista de Derecho Penal y Criminologia 2012; 8: 411-494.

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(Copyright © 2012)

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Abstract

Trafficking in human beings is one of the criminal phenomenon emerging in our globalized society. The international community launched a global strategy against this phenomenon in the early 2000, adopting basically a criminalizing policy. More contemporaneously, policies undertaken against this phenomenon try to address it integrally, taking prevention into account and particularly the protection of victims, which includes their identification as such. Spain has developed in the last two years new efforts to achieve the internationally established standards to combat this phenomenon. However, the empirical research we present here shows that much remains to be done for its proper implementation. In this research we develop a qualitative study conducted with 45 women in two Spanish Prisons. Some of the women interviewed in our research have been under serious institutional victimization. In particular 10 of the women interviewed were identified as victims of trafficking in human beings. Therefore their experience of victimization includes not only the suffering for the victimization process experienced as victims of trafficking, but also the suffering for not being detected as such victims by the system and for being convicted and incarcerated for the commission of an offense during the exploitation phase of the trafficking process (English)

Keywords: Human trafficking