ABSTRACT
This transnational organised crime framework has prevailed despite a lack of clear evidence of its applicability to the trafficking context or systematic analysis of criminal justice data on the profile of trafficking offenders. The idea that trafficking must be criminalised and perpetrators prosecuted fits in neatly with the growing urge towards criminalisation of various types of problematic behaviour and the conventional logic of criminal justice processes. As late modern societies are increasingly 'governed through crime' (Simon, 2007), the logic of criminal justice emphasises the notion of individual responsibility, conveys a clear signal of transnational organised crime as an external 'threat' to normal society, and highlights the necessity and ability of law enforcement mechanisms to respond to and prevent human trafficking.
