Slave trade as a variety of criminal market for goods and services in the modern world
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: The article examines the features of criminal activity involving the use of slave labor, which is one of the criminal markets of the shadow economy, which has the following features: selfish nature, organization, transnationality, latency, corruption, close interaction and interdependence with other criminal markets (sex services, illegal migration, illegal transplantology, etc.). Based on the analysis, a definition of the criminal market for the use of slave labor has been formulated, which is understood as a socially dangerous phenomenon, part of the shadow economy that generates supply and demand in the labor market, and carried out through organized criminal activity, acquiring a transnational character, with the goal of extracting criminal proceeds in especially large in size, characterized by latency, corruption potential, interaction with illegal migration, the sex industry, illegal transplantology and terrorist organizations.
Source: Siberian Law Herald
Author: A. S. Balugyan
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4409276804