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Human trafficking has emerged as one of the top international and domestic policy concerns, and is well covered and often sensationalized by the media. The nature of the topic combined with various international pressures has resulted in an array of government-led mandates to combat the issue. The Domestication of Human Trafficking examines Canada's criminal justice approaches to human trafficking, with a particular focus on the ways in which the intersecting factors of race, class, gender, and sexuality impact practice. Using a wide range of qualitative and empirically grounded research methods, including extensive analysis of court documents, trial transcripts, and interviews with criminal justice actors, this book contributes to much-needed research that examines, specifies, and sometimes complicates the narratives of how trafficking works as a criminal offence. TheDomestication of Human Trafficking turns our attention to the ways in which human trafficking is made on the frontlines of criminal justice efforts in Canada.

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Filled with nuanced analysis and exciting insights, The Domestication of Human Trafficking is a must-read for anyone interested in human trafficking or sex work in Canada. Drawing on her meticulous empirical research, Katrin Roots examines how trafficking is constituted in Canada while deftly unpacking the classed, raced, and gendered roots of the sex work/trafficking conflation. In the process, the author sheds much-needed light on the multifaceted impacts and implications of normative frames. Remarkably - particularly given how complex the terrain and how textured the analysis - the book is accessible and highly readable. - Chris Bruckert, Professor of Criminology, University of Ottawa Katrin Roots's thoroughly researched and groundbreaking book expertly challenges conventional understandings of human trafficking in Canada. By critically analysing a range of empirical data, Roots uncovers how police, lawyers, and judges enforce and interpret anti-trafficking laws, and in doing so, legitimize a powerful 'human trafficking matrix' based largely on sexist, classist, and racist stereotypes. This in-depth and compelling legal analysis is both urgent and timely. - Emily van der Meulen, Professor of Criminology, Toronto Metropolitan University

"""Katrin Roots's thoroughly researched and groundbreaking book expertly challenges conventional understandings of human trafficking in Canada. By critically analysing a range of empirical data, Roots uncovers how police, lawyers, and judges enforce and interpret anti-trafficking laws, and in doing so, legitimize a powerful 'human trafficking matrix' based largely on sexist, classist, and racist stereotypes. This in-depth and compelling legal analysis is both urgent and timely.""--Emily van der Meulen, Professor of Criminology, Toronto Metropolitan University ""Filled with nuanced analysis and exciting insights, The Domestication of Human Trafficking is a must-read for anyone interested in human trafficking or sex work in Canada. Drawing on her meticulous empirical research, Katrin Roots examines how trafficking is constituted in Canada while deftly unpacking the classed, raced, and gendered roots of the sex work/trafficking conflation. In the process, the author sheds much-needed light on the multifaceted impacts and implications of normative frames. Remarkably - particularly given how complex the terrain and how textured the analysis - the book is accessible and highly readable.""--Chris Bruckert, Professor of Criminology, University of Ottawa"

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Katrin Roots is an assistant professor in the Department of Criminology at Wilfrid Laurier University.

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