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The introduction describes the difficulties of accurately measuring the scope of human trafficking crime and hence, gaps in quantitative research in this field. Responding to these difficulties in global comparative analysis, this book offers to work with quantifiable data on enforcement of the legislation against human trafficking or as the literature refers to it—anti-trafficking enforcement data. The introduction includes a short review of the most recent literature and previous studies on anti-trafficking enforcement by addressing the root causes of human trafficking.

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Ravlik, M. (2020). Introduction. In: The Fight against Human Trafficking. Palgrave Pivot, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33204-4_1

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