Immoral Trafficking of Women and Children:Transnational Crime and Legal Process

Human trafficking today is world's third largest organized crime. The author in this book has delineated the contours of cross-border trafficking in India, analyzed 'the national legal mechanisms' and 'international legal instruments' for combating immoral trafficking and suggested the adoption of possible measures to combat the crime. The present legal framework "results in revitalization of the victims" and "exploiters mostly go scot-free". The legal system should be tuned in a manner so that the trafficker and the customer, and not the victim is punished. There is the need to provide 'special assistance' to the victims during the prosecution process, which should make a "difference in dealing with victims and offender.