Trafficking in Human Beings: An Economic Perspective on a Transnational Organized Crime

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

This course introduces students to the drivers, trends, and impacts of the ubiquitous transnational organized crime of trafficking in human beings. Applying a socio-economic lens, it introduces participants to the complicated and complex challenges affecting consumers, businesses, and supply chains around the globe. These covert organisations and illicit trades are generating revenues, causing harm, and have a pervasive influence around the globe. The course examines a range of challenges which are facing governments, policy makers, and companies, as well as citizens, as they attempt to disrupt and prevent this crime.