Psychology of Traffickers
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-93168-5 (ISBN)
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Psychology of Traffickers: Insights from Romanian Prisons offers a rare and unsettling look inside the moral and psychological worlds of human traffickers. Based on original qualitative research, the book draws on in-depth interviews with twenty incarcerated traffickers in Romania, a central node in Europe’s trafficking reality, to examine how exploitation is rationalized, normalized, and sustained over time.
Through traffickers’ own narratives, Dr. Bogdan reveals how poverty, migration, gender norms, and geopolitical pressures converge to shape criminal behavior. Rather than portraying traffickers as aberrant monsters or faceless members of criminal networks, the book situates them within the institutional, social, and economic environments that make exploitation possible.
The book makes a distinctive contribution by integrating firsthand offender accounts with criminological theory, while developing original typologies of traffickers grounded in empirical data. In doing so, it challenges simplified victim–perpetrator binaries and offers a more nuanced understanding of trafficking as a systemic phenomenon embedded in inequality, regulation, and moral reasoning.
By bringing together traffickers’ perspectives with the institutional frameworks that govern them, Psychology of Traffickers provides an innovative lens on prevention, accountability, and intervention. It offers policymakers, practitioners, and law enforcement professionals evidence-based insights for designing more effective anti-trafficking strategies, while advancing scholarly debates in forensic psychology, criminology, and criminal justice.
Ludmila Bogdan, Ph.D., is an expert in labor migration, human trafficking, and children’s rights, with more than a decade of experience shaping evidence-based policies that protect vulnerable populations and strengthen governance systems. Her work spans the full spectrum of migration research, from interviewing traffickers in Romanian and Moldovan prisons and mapping hidden exploitation networks, to advising governments, UN agencies, and regional bodies on trafficking prevention and migration reform. She has held research appointments at Harvard University, Stanford University, the University of Copenhagen, and is currently a Visiting Scholar in Criminology at the Max Planck Institute in Freiburg, where she continues to advance interdisciplinary research on exploitation and criminal networks. Her studies have informed international human rights frameworks, UN strategies, and national policy reforms across Europe and South Asia. Fluent in both qualitative and quantitative methodologies, Dr. Bogdan translates complex data into clear insights with real-world impact. Her publications include peer-reviewed articles, UN policy reports, and major comparative studies on migration, vulnerability, and governance. She collaborates widely with governments, NGOs, and academic institutions to design sustainable, research-driven responses to exploitation and mobility.
Introduction. Chapter 1: Romania’s Human Trafficking Reality, Between Borders and Lives. Chapter 2: Listening to the Unheard: Reframing Traffickers in the Literature and the Field. Chapter 3: Theoretical Considerations. Chapter 4: Methods. Chapter 5: The Language of Traffickers and the Code of Exploitation. Chapter 6: “Good Women, Bad Women”. Chapter 7: Social Inequality. Chapter 8: Typologies of Human Traffickers. Chapter 9: Gheorghe, False Friend & Financially-Driven Trafficker. Chapter 10: The Family-Based Traffickers. Chapter 11: Valera, The Savior and the Legacy. Chapter 12: Evanghelin – Dehumanizer & Exploited by Circumstance. Chapter 13: Teodor, Denier and Financially-Driven Labor Trafficker. Chapter 14: Hector, the Middleman of Misery. Chapter 15: Daniel, Typology Corrupt Public Figure. Chapter 16: Leonard, The Psychology of Grooming and Emotional Dependency. Chapter 17: Gustav, The “Businessman” Trafficker Exploited by Circumstances. Chapter 18: Alex, The Opportunistic Protector Turned Pimp. Chapter 19: Ben, The Denier: Exploited by Circumstance. Chapter 20: Nicholas, The Exploited by Circumstance: Naïve Smugglers at the Margins. Chapter 21: Yuri: Beyond the Lover Boy Label. Chapter 22: Alexei, Another “Lover Boy” Frame. Chapter 23: Gicu, The “Savior” Financially Driven. Chapter 24: Discussion: Self-Made Innocents, Narratives of Justification and Denial. Information Classification: General. Chapter 25: Discussion: Reflections in the Grey Zone, Traffickers' Perspectives and Cultural Echoes. Chapter 26: Practical Recommendations for Policy and Intervention. Conclusion: Patterns, Power, and Moral Complexity. Bibliography.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 31.7.2026 |
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| Zusatzinfo | 1 Tables, black and white |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 138 x 216 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sozialpsychologie |
| Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht | |
| Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Strafverfahrensrecht | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-032-93168-X / 103293168X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-032-93168-5 / 9781032931685 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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