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How Human Trafficking Fuels Erosion of Liberal Democracies—In Fiction and Fact, and from within and without
by Jill E.B. Coster van Voorhout
Soc. Sci. 2022, 11(12), 560; https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci11120560 - 29 Nov 2022
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On the same day that the human trafficker Ms. Ghislaine Maxwell was sentenced to 20 years’ imprisonment, many people closely watched the sixth hearing of the House Select Committee on the attack of the United States Capitol on 6 January 2021 (28 June [...] Read more.
On the same day that the human trafficker Ms. Ghislaine Maxwell was sentenced to 20 years’ imprisonment, many people closely watched the sixth hearing of the House Select Committee on the attack of the United States Capitol on 6 January 2021 (28 June 2022). What, if anything, do these ostensibly varied crimes have in common? Seeking to answer this fundamental question, this article explores the usually under-researched connection between trafficking in persons and the documented decline of liberal democracies worldwide. Globally, democratic societies governed by the rule of law appear to be under assault, and therefore this article explores relevant examples of how human trafficking contributes to the erosion of liberal democracy, in fiction and fact, and from within and without. In other words, this article takes us from ‘Pizzagate’ to profits. Full article
(This article belongs to the Collection Tackling Organized Crime and Human Trafficking)
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