ABSTRACT
To improve the prosecution of human trafficking, international legal frameworks call for better care for victim-witnesses. On the street level of governance across Germany, this translates into more or less uneasy cooperation between crime prosecution bodies (police, courts) and support agencies (social work, specialized NGOs). This chapter analyzes the dynamics resulting from that cooperation at the local level within the German context. We specifically focus, first, on the effects this has on police and specialized victim counseling centers by analyzing practices of boundary drawing and mutual adaptation. Second, this chapter elaborates on the effects this has on the subject of human trafficking as an object of regulation including the production of case numbers.
