Representation of transnational human trafficking in present-day news media, true crime, and fiction

An opportunity recently arose for me to test out some of my ideas and findings by speaking to an audience of crime fiction researchers and scholars, and it turned out to be immensely useful.  On 26-27 May 2017, I attended the International Crime Genre Research Group’s 7th biennial conference, entitled “Networks and Connections in the Crime Genre”, at National University of Ireland, in Galway.  I only took part in the Friday programme of the conference, but as can be seen from the programme, which can be accessed  here , the whole conference was rich in interesting research and ideas. Read more about the work done by the International Crime Genre Research Group  here . The “Networks and Connections” conference proved a very useful venue for meeting other academics working in the field of crime studies.  As the conference organisers stated about the aims of their  research group : “Our founding ambition since our first conference in 2005 is to bring together researchers from a broad