Abstract
Financial gain, culture of competition, and organizational goals can be seen as plausible factors influencing the acceptance of the risk to get involved in crimes and to endeavor a cover-up on the institutional and organizational level. On an individual level, profit maximization may have been an important individual goal to participate in the mission in the first and in combination with sexual need to participate in trafficking when part of the mission. Top-down mechanisms as absolute immunity, the political environment in postwar Bosnia, and poor recruitment standards may have provided the opportunity structures for the creation of illegal means. Under operationality of control, the following factors were identified: lack of legal and political pressures, unsuccessful implementation and process of the code of conduct, high-ranking officials setting a bad example, submission to a collective identity, moral disengagement, and the use of neutralization techniques.
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Cole, C., Vermeltfoort, R. (2018). Analysis and Explanations. In: U.S. Government Contractors and Human Trafficking. SpringerBriefs in Criminology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70827-0_13
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