Policing Non-Citizens

Weber, Leanne

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“…The status of non-citizenship will keep them from serious criminal justice system attention because of lack of political power such as the rights to vote, causing the trafficking to remain underground [38]. In order to raise the awareness of HT, we need to address the economic and social factors that give rise to HT globally and locally.…”

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The trafficking of women and girls in Taiwan: characteristics of victims, perpetrators, and forms of exploitation

Huang

2017

BMC Women's Health

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BackgroundPrior to the passing of 2009 Human Trafficking Prevention Act (HTPA), human trafficking was underestimated in Taiwan. In the past, domestic trafficking in women and girls often targeted vulnerable groups such as young girls from poor families or minority groups. Since the 1990s, an increasing flow of immigrant women, mainly from Vietnam and Indonesia and some from China, into Taiwan has created a new group of Human Trafficking victims. The current study intends to identify, describe, and categorize reported and prosecuted human trafficking cases involving women and girls according to the HTPA in Taiwan.MethodsUsing the court proceedings of prosecuted trafficking in women and girls cases under Taiwan’s HTPA from all 21 districts in Taiwan from 2009 to 2012 under the title keyword of ‘Human Trafficking’, this current study aims to categorize different patterns of existing trafficking in women and girls in Taiwan. The analysis is based on 37 court cases, involving 195 victimized women and girls and 118 perpetrators.ResultsThis study identifies six forms of Human Trafficking victims according to their country of origin, vulnerability status, and means of transport. This study found that women and girls suffer from both labor and sexual exploitation, from mainly domestic male perpetrators. While sexual exploitation is more evenly distributed among citizens and immigrants and affects both adults and minors, labor exploitation seems to be an exclusive phenomenon among women immigrant workers in the data.ConclusionsHuman Trafficking cases in Taiwan share many of the similarities of Human Trafficking in other regions, which are highly associated with gender inequality and gender-based vulnerability.Electronic supplementary materialThe online version of this article (10.1186/s12905-017-0463-2) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

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The trafficking of women and girls in Taiwan: characteristics of victims, perpetrators, and forms of exploitation

Huang

2017

BMC Women's Health

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“…This study thus also contributes to the literature on the interchangeable use of criminal and administrative law, a topic notably explored in 'crimmigration' research (Stumpf, 2006, Sklansky, 2012, Weber, 2013, Gundhus, 2017. Tempering efficiency with transparency, we argue, is paramount to preserve the institutional integrity of, and trust in, deliberately separated public agencies as they participate in powerful networked assemblages.…”

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‘It’s about using the full sanction catalogue’: on boundary negotiations in a multi-agency organised crime investigation

Bjelland

Vestby

2017

Policing and Society

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Inter-organisational and inter-disciplinary investigations are increasingly deployed against criminal networks and cross-jurisdictional crimes. This study provides a unique empirical window into an inter-organisational investigation against a large organized crime network in Norway. Building on interview data from the participants in the multiagency investigation team that was summoned for this case, the article discusses coordination issues that arise when organisations with different goals and interests collaborate to reach a common goal. The article studies co-ordination from inside of the investigation team and discusses the interchangeable use of criminal and administrative law. While bridging organisational boundaries enable agencies to pool powers, coordination across organisations may challenge the protection of sometimes conflicting aims and interests.Keywords: organisational boundaries, inter-organisational co-ordination, security networks, policing 2 IntroductionOslo area, September 2014: After a period of comprehensive communication surveillance and covert investigation, 280 officers from the police, the Tax Administration (henceforth 'TA'), and the Labour and Welfare Administration ('Labour & Welfare') carried out a raid on 20 shops in the 'Lime' grocery chain. The grocery chain was established and operated by an organised criminal network that was previously known to the police. The shops were profitable to the network who allegedly utilised human trafficking for forced labour, illicit work, money laundering, benefit fraud, tax evasion, violations of immigration law, employment offences, identity theft, and credit card fraud i . The raid marked the beginning of a prolonged multi-agency investigation, covering a variety of criminal and administrative violations. The investigation was structured as a multi-agency project, which meant that investigators from all participating agencies (police, TA, Labour & Welfare) were removed from their daily tasks, co-localised in a shared, rented office space, and co-ordinated by the Lime project's chief investigator.Pluralisation characterises contemporary policing, and partnerships as well as networked security governance between state and non-state actors have been examined empirically (Gundhus et al., 2008, Nøkleberg, 2016, Søgaard et al., 2016. This study explores the co-ordination of state powers in the multi-agency Lime project. While the literature on the pluralisation of policing and nodal governance of security (Johnston andWood, 2003) emphasises the role of non-state agents in the provision of security, this study delves into the heterogeneity of powers and interests in state sector governmental nodes. Partnership working and information sharing among public agencies intensifies 'the state gaze' […] in a way which is valued for its ability to make the daily work of the various state agents easier. '(O'Neill and Loftus, 2013, p. 451). This study contributes to the existing literature in two ways: Empirically, through studying the internal 3 operations of...

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“…Through such steps, these authorities seek to minimise the opportunities for any 'doubling' of identities on the part of 'dangerous others' (Driskell and Salas, 2012). If governmental committees and policy think tanks in Europe, North American, Australia and elsewhere reflect on and seek to devise ever more effective means of fortressing their borders, however, this continues to be challenged by the ingenuity of those desperate to subvert or bypass these controls (Moorehead, 2006;Weber, 2013). Deceit and its detection are central to this conflict of interests.…”

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For a Sociology of Deceit: Doubled Identities, Interested Actions and Situational Logics of Opportunity

Shilling

Mellor

2014

Sociology

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Deceit occupies a significant role in historical conceptualisations of social order, but dominant approaches to the subject are limited by the normative assumptions and conceptions of agency and structure on which they rest. This paper suggests that renewed sociological engagement with deceit is overdue and can illuminate the 'situational logics of opportunity' within modernity (Archer, 2010). Focusing on the contemporary era, and building upon Simmel's argument that individuals lead a 'doubled existence', within and outside social forms, we view deceit as neither a personal trait nor an effect of social structures. Instead, it emerges through, and assumes contrasting meanings as a consequence of, people's interested and strategic engagements with the social world. Developing this theoretical analysis substantively, we then focus on several examples of how deceit is used to subvert or reaffirm boundaries between 'insider' and 'outsider' groups, including those emergent from sociology's own 'doubled existence' relative to modern life.

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Policing Non-Citizens

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The trafficking of women and girls in Taiwan: characteristics of victims, perpetrators, and forms of exploitation

The trafficking of women and girls in Taiwan: characteristics of victims, perpetrators, and forms of exploitation

‘It’s about using the full sanction catalogue’: on boundary negotiations in a multi-agency organised crime investigation

For a Sociology of Deceit: Doubled Identities, Interested Actions and Situational Logics of Opportunity

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